Melanie C

Selling over 75 million records and scoring nine UK Number 1 singles, the Spice Girls were Europe's biggest pop phenomenon of the 1990s. After their initial breakup in 2000, it was the group's high-kicking, tracksuit-clad Sporty Spice — aka Melanie C, born Melanie Jayne Chisholm in Whiston, Lancashire, on January 12, 1974 — who underwent the biggest change, teaming up with Bryan Adams for the hit duet "When You're Gone" and embracing a rock-influenced sound with her first solo single, "Goin' Down." Although her debut album, 1999's Northern Star, failed to sell well in America, it enjoyed massive popularity in the UK, earning triple-platinum status and rendering Melanie C the most successful Spice Girl. 2003's Reason produced more hit songs in the UK, including the Top 10 single "Here It Comes Again," while 2005's Beautiful Intentions expanded her reach throughout other European countries with the single "First Day of My Life," which topped the charts in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal. Melanie C released This Time in 2007 and briefly reunited with the Spice Girls later that year. Now releasing her solo albums on her own label, Red Girl Records, she remained active during the 2010s with The Sea (2011), Stages (2012), and Version of Me (2016), while also appearing in TV programs like The X Factor Australia, Superstar, and Asia's Got Talent. Following another Spice Girls reunion and accompanying world tour in 2019, she began working on her eighth album, the self-titled Melanie C, which appeared in 2020.

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