Rosemary Ribbons was born on July 22nd 1983 in Australia to Ronald and Carol Ribbons. Her father is Welsh and in the early 1980s, he travelled to Australia to see his parents who had emigrated there. Whilst he was there he met Rosie's Australian mother, Carol. They got married and Rosie was born soon after who spent the first four years of her life living in Australia. Eventually, the family returned to Pontardawe near Swansea in Wales to start a new life together. Rosie decided she wanted to be a pop singer ever since she was eight years old.

"I was singing a song in my schoolyard when a girl came up and said 'You're actually quite a good singer'. After that it was all I ever wanted to be - working in the supermarket was just a means to an end until the right moment came along. I've got three older sisters and I started listening to their tapes".

Rosie became almost obsessed with Mariah Carey and listened to her tapes over and over again and learned to mimic her way of singing. Rosie was even inspired to start writing her own songs. She was a reasonably good student at school until her final year when she conveniently lost interest altogether and the only two GCSEs she passed was English and Drama!

Before Pop Idol, she was working in her local branch of Alldays, a small supermarket.. but since then she's been snapped up by Telstar Records (for a  5 album deal) and this pint sized talent at just 5ft 2in, is about to become a huge star! 

Her debut single "Blink" reached #12 in the UK charts in October 2002, the second single "A Little Bit" reached #19 in January 2003.  Her album had many name changes consisting of; "Levitate" (as per Blink Cd), "Good Thing" and finally "Misbehaving".  

After the disappointing chart position of  "A Little Bit" Telstar went to work on getting ready to release the third single only a few weeks later. This was initially going to be a double A Side, featuring "Good Thing" and "Heaven". After supporting Blue on their "One Love" Tour Telstar decided that a totally fresh, new track had to be released... something guaranteed to succeed. Rosie was back in the studio recording a modern day remake of none other than Dee-Lites "Groove Is In The Heart". Telstar decided this was the way to go, release this new track as the double A side with Rosie's ballad "Heaven".

The next step was to get the album out there promotionally, it was sent to the radios and dj's. By now the moment was lost, interest was low and the album was shelved and the single. After which her record label dropped her.

Telstar have confirmed they have no plans to release any of the archived recordings. On an interesting note... Telstar Records started to undergo bankruptcy proceedings in July 2004 and are no longer trading business.  I wonder what happened to the Rosie archive?

What is she doing now? Well some people say that her welsh cousin (who posts on a pop idol forum) claims that Rosie is indeed recording and searching for a label to release her album.  These are most likely rumours, but we can dream.