Biography
Melanie Brown, known under the scenic pseudonyms Scary Spice, Melanie or Mel Bi, is a British singer, leading and actress. As a member of the Girl SPICE GIRLS, a girl who dedicated life to music, gained fame in the 1990s, then started writing solo albums, to act on television and movies.Childhood and youth
Melanie Janin Brown was born in May 1975, her biography began in the County of Western Yorkshire, or rather in the city of Leeds. The childhood of the future singer passed in the Kirkstoll area, where there were conditions for immersion in the world of entertainment and arts.
Martin Brown Father was a native of the Caribbean Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Andrea Dixon's mother - British. The daughter inherited the features of representatives of African nationalities and inhabitants of the European country.
At the age of 10, the Englishwoman mastered the drum tools and began to visit local centers and studios that had a specialized bias. In early adolescence, Mel Brown studied performers in Intake high school in Leeds. In high school, she took up choreography to work in nightclubs. The first speeches saw the inhabitants of Blackpool.
Having received a diploma of secondary education, the girl wanted to get into the ranks of celebrities. Together with the hundreds of singers and dancers, she responded to the announcement in the Stage edition and came to audition at Danceworks Studios studio, planning to create a female vocal ensemble.
The talent of Melanie appreciated, and she got a chance to go on stage. Touch group with colleagues, later renamed Spice Girls, Steel Victoria Adams Beckham, Emma Banton, Jeri Hollywell and Melanie Chiholm (Melani SI).
Music
At first, the work of the performers was quite ordinary. Simon Fuller from Virgin Records changed the position of things. The debut single Wannabe, illustrated by the video clip, brought the artists popularity, and the SPICE album in 1995 entered the ratings of the best projects of all time.In the late 1990s, Melanie began a solo career. The first composition I Want You BACK became the fruit of cooperation with the executor Miss Elliot. In parallel, the native of Leeds continued to work in the team, she traveled with Spice Girls on tour of various countries and cities.
Embed from getty imagesDue to the tense schedule, the time for the Word Up's second independent single single, which was the Cameo team songwriter, appeared only in 1999. American rapper Timballand took part in the work. The track used in the Austin Powers feature film: an international mystery man ", he entered the twenty in British charts. After that, the girl decided that the moment came to release the album.
The release of HOT preceded the premiere of a song called Tell Me, highly rising in national music charts. This circumstance helped the chalk game to survive the collapse of the Spice Girls group. Other materials from the FEELS SO Good and Lullaby solo plate were perceived differently with critics and fans. Due to the low sales, Virgin Records ripped a contract with the singer.
In the early 2000s, Briton decided to master the new audience. After the edition of the autobiographical book Catch a Fire, she immigrated to the United States of America and settled in Los Angeles. By putting life, the singer continued to record tracks and act.
After the release of a number of individual singles, work began on the replenishment of discography. Unfortunately, L. A. State of Mind waited for non-seal reception. As it is impossible, by the way, Spice Girls decided to reunite. A series of successful international concerts provided a tide of creative forces.
Melanie, like actress Heidi Klum, became a TV host and participant of various popular projects. She made a judge in the X-Factor program and as a contestant on the show "Dancing with the Stars". It was rumored that the singer intends to start recording the third solo album, but then the journalists learned that the Emi Music Australia studio had canceled the contract.
In 2010, Skiery Spice starred in the TV series "The Secret Diary of the Call Girl" and the film "Twelve Christmas Trees". She also played in the Broadway Musical "Chicago" character named Roxy Hart.
In the fall of 2018, in the profile of Mel bi in "Instagram", an ad about the world tour Spice Girls appeared. After performances in Ireland, Wales, England and Scotland, the performer presented the voice of Giraf from the cartoon "Sparkling Samurai". The rest of the heroes were voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, Ricky Jervey, Mel Brooks and Michael Sere.
Personal life
In his youth in the personal life of Melanie Brown (height 165 cm and the weight of about 60 kg) were relations with men and women. The first beloved, about whom the press was recognized, became a businessman fed Torgeirson.
In 1998, the singer married the Dutch dancer Jimmy Gulzara. Soon, a beautiful and successful couple was born the daughter of Phoenix Chi Gulzar. It did not save spouses from divorce 2 years after the wedding. The child stayed with the singer after registration of the guardianship in court.
In 2000 Skiery Spice met with the producer of Christina Crocos and actor Max Bizley. She told about the novels in an interview with the Gay Star News portal.
Communication with the American comic of Eddie Murphy led to the emergence of Eingen Iris. The girl, like his own child, brought up the second official husband Stephen Belafonte. The third of the children, Madison appeared in September 2011.
Mel bi hoped that a new marriage would be similar to the marriage of ordinary people. Disappointment There was no limit when the star of the stage learned that the husband changed her with Lorein Gilles, who performed the duties of nanny in the family. Immersed in depression, the performer tried to end the life of suicide. Fortunately, she was not bought by drugs or sleeping pills, but a lighter aspirin.
Photos of the spouses fell into the press after the scandal became known. The singer, who was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, resorted to the help of American doctors. Employees of boulevard publications that wrote articles on dependence on prohibited drugs, sex and plastic operations, fortunately, at that time spared the fragile psyche of children.
Melanie Brown now
In the 2020s, it became known that the chalk B could become bankrupt. The cause of the financial collapse of the coronavirus infection and the debt of the former husband Stephen Belafonte in the amount of $ 500 thousand due to the abolition of tour and the closure of a series of reality, the celebrity lost a stable income.Discography
With the Spice Girls group:
- 1996 - Spice.
- 1997 - SpiceWorld
- 2000 - Forever
Solo:
- 1999 - Word Up
- 2000 - Hot.
- 2005 - L.A. State of Mind.
- 2013 - for ONCE IN MY LIFE