Mel C

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: Widnes, Cheshire, 12 January 1974
Associated with: Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Mel B, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham

Scaredy spice - Apr 05
Mel C says she would love to work with Pink but is a little bit scared of her. The singer releases her third solo album, Beautiful Intentions, this month and has told press that she’d love to work with both Pink and Gwen Stefani. "I’ve hung around with Gwen a bit and to work with her would be great.I’m a bit scared of Pink though - she looks dead hard," she explained. She has also expressed a desire to work with ex-Blur guitarist Graham Coxon.

When Mel met Michael - Apr 05
Mel C recently met Michael Jackson and found the whole experience rather upsetting. Mel, who says she is concerned that Jackson’s current sex abuse trial will overshadow his musical career, met the iconic singer at the end of a show. She says, "it was a bit upsetting because he looked incredibly strange close up. It’s sad what’s happening to him now."

See Mel - Apr 05
Mel C is performing a free gig in hr home town of Liverpool. The star, who releases her new album very soon, will be performing a one off gig at HMV on Church Street on April 15th at 1pm.

Mel’s hate mail - May 04
Mel C has been receiving hate mail from Spice Girls fans.

Although Emma, Geri, Mel B and Victoria were all happy to take part in a spice Girls reunion Mel C told press that she has "no intention of working with the girls again". Since this revelation Mel C has been the recipient of a lot of rather angry letters from those that were hoping for the reunion some of which have included threats. Put down that pen Geri!

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Mel C no longer a Virgin star - 09/01/04
Mel C has been dropped by her record label Virgin.

They ’parted ways’ after her single Melt/Yeh Yeh Yeh peaked at 27 in the charts. But not one to let this stop her, she is going to release CD’s through her own record label instead. Simply Red are an example of a successful band who did this, they released their album ’Home’ and did incredibly well, reports the BBC.

Mel is the last Spice Girl to leave Virgin record label after being with them for over eight years.

Victoria’s music is ’atrocious’ - 05/12/03
Go on Mel C, don’t hold back, tell us exactly what you think of your ex band mate Victoria Beckham’s new single.

Mel C was being interviewed on Heart 106.2, and she said that she has heard a snippet of Viccy’s new double A-side single This Groove and Let Your Head Go. Mel has reportedly said that latter was "terrible".

She tells Radio DJ Harriet Scott: "I thought it was atrocious - I’m not being horrible, I’m just giving my opinion. I thought it was a terrible song. Lyrically it was weak."

Mel also reckons Victoria should give up music and spend more time with her husband. "She’s got such a great life - I don’t know why she doesn’t just sit back and enjoy it. But she’s very headstrong - she does exactly what she wants"

I am sure Victoria will be well pleased with her supposed mates comments - don’t expect an invite to Beckingham Palace any near time in the future Mel!

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Biography

Melanie C - Mel C - Sporty Spice - whatever you want to call her - this is one lass who is proud to be from Liverpool. Born in Whiston Hospital, Merseyside, she was brought up in Rainhill, then Widnes and grew up in a sports-mad Liverpool-supporting family and became an accomplished player herself. Her love of Liverpool FC and sport in general became her trademark, and after deciding to incorporate her high-kicks into the spice girl act, her fate was sealed, and she was known as sporty spice for ever after.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave these past 6 years, you will have heard of Mel C and even if you don’t know her by name, you must have heard of The Spice Girls and their message of girl power. They were the girl band of the 90’s who for a while, really seemed to rule the world. They broke America, toured the world....they’ve sold something like 40million albums worldwide. Which really is quite an extraordinary thing for five such ordinary english girls to achieve. Mel was the quieter one, a bit shy- but then with the likes of Geri, Mel B and Posh around, it’s not surprising that she didn’t try and compete for the spotlight. She was generally considered to have the best voice out of the group, and although that’s not saying much, she has gone on to prove her critics wrong.

Although the spice girls have never offically split, they’ve have all gone their separate ways over the past two years to work on solo projects. For most of them, they have had to learn the hard way that being a member of a successful group and being in the papers does not guarantee you success as a soloist. Mel B was recently dumped by her record label Virgin. Emma also got the chop a few months later, depite having a No1 with ’what took you so long’. Geri’s album had very dissapointing sales, despite having a few successful singles. And then there’s Victoria. She’s in a league of her own celebrity wise, but she still insists on making music and banging on about proving to people that she can sing, when we all know she can’t. Her album bombed out of the charts like a lead balloon.

The picture is looking much more rosy for Mel C. Her album ’Northern Star’ (a name that proudly shows off her Liverpudlian roots) has been a massive No1 success, and is still riding high in the charts after nearly a year. Although she got off to a bit of a rocky start - people couldn’t quite believe she was for real - when she strolled onto the stage at Glastonbury acting like Sid Vicious people laughed. She’s not punk, she’s a spice girl, who’s she trying to kid? But she soldiered on, and people came to see that it wasn’t just an act, that her tastes in music weren’t represented by what she did with the spice girls.

Mel has been dogged by the press continually, and seemed to be at breaking point at the end of last year. She said she couldn’t take the pressure of having her weight continually analyzed in the tabloids, and said how much it hurt her when she read things like ’beefy spice’, which did seem to be a ridiculous double standard when at the same time the same press were still calling Victoria ’skeletal spice’. But she’s a bit of a comeback kid, and has bounced back. She has her dark hair back again (soooo much better than blonde) and is looking very trim indeed.

Mel C - a real northern star to be proud of.
January 2008