Born: Jan 12, 1974
Birth Name: Melanie Jayne Chisholm
Genre: Rock
Period: `90s, 2000s
Biography:
The world-famous Sporty Spice, singer Melanie Chisholm was born January 12, 1975, in Liverpool, England; a onetime session vocalist and ballet dancer, in March of 1994 she answered an advertisement for an all-girl vocal group, and with fellow applicants Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams, and Melanie Brown formed the nucleus of what later (with the addition of fifth member Emma Bunton) became the Spice Girls. The biggest pop phenomenon of the late `90s, the Spice Girls enjoyed a series of chart-topping singles like "Wannabe," "Say You`ll Be There," and "2 Become 1"; as the tracksuit-clad Sporty Spice, Mel C (as Chisholm was commonly known) was widely considered the most musically talented Spice Girl, and in the fall of 1999 she made her solo debut with Northern Star. I Turn to You followed a year later. Reason from 2003 was a mainstream pop album while 2005`s Beautiful Intentions was a more rocking affair and the first album to be released on Melanie C`s own label, Red Girl Records. In early 2007 two new singles -- "The Moment You Believe" and a cover version of "I Want Candy" -- announced the coming of her fourth full-length, This Time. Duplicate entry '' for key 1
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