English singer-songwriter and TV personality Mel C was born 52 years ago in Whiston, Lancashire as Melanie Jayne Chisholm, is in a relationship and has a daughter. She is better known as Mel C or Sporty Spice and as one of the members of the all-girl group, Spice Girls.
After finishing high school, Mel took a 3-year course to obtain a diploma in musical theatre, singing and dancing. In 1994, shortly before ending the course, she responded to a weekly newspaper’s advert who were looking for candidates to form a girl band and was chosen, so she left college.
Along with other 4 girls, Mel became a member of the ‘Spice Girls’. Their first album was released in 1996 and was an enormous success worldwide, so much so that it soared to number one in over 17 countries and sold around 30 million copies globally. It features the number one hits ‘ Wannabe’, ‘Say you’ll be There’, ‘2 become 1’, ‘Who do you think you Are?’ and ‘Mama’.
Likewise, their second album was also extremely successful and included ‘Too Much’, ‘Spice up your Life’, ‘Stop’, ‘Viva Forever’ and ‘Goodbye’. In 1998, Mel sang ‘When You’re Gone’ in duet with Canadian singer Bryan Adams.
In late 1999, Mel released her first single as a solo artist, followed by an album and a second single. She then embarked on a world tour to promote her work and both singles and album reached the Top 10. Two more singles followed but were not successful. Mel persevered and released another single ‘Never be the Same Again’ which turned out to be a number one worldwide hit. It was followed by another number one hit ‘I turn to You’.
Mel was still a ‘Spice Girl’ although she had released some solo material, so in the year 2000, the group’s final album came out and like the previous ones gained worldwide success. Afterwards, the group members went their separate ways and the band dissolved.
To date, Mel released 8 studio and 1 live albums, 36 singles as main artist and 9 singles as featured artist, as well as 15 promotional singles, plus 43 music videos. She also collaborated with numerous other artists by appearing on their albums. Later on in May, her 9th studio album ‘Sweat’ is expected to be released.
Apart from music, Mel starred in a couple of movies, appeared in several TV programmes, performed in 3 stage plays and published a book. She is expected to star in an upcoming movie named ‘Girl Group’ which release date is still to be announced. Mel is also an active philanthropist and over the years has supported several charitable institutions.
During her career so far, Mel won 16 awards out of 46 nominations. These include 3 Scouseology, an Eska Music, a British LGBT and a WhatsOnStage.
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