Melanie C

Melanie Jayne Chisholm, born on 12 January 1974 in Whiston, near Liverpool in Merseyside, also known as Melanie C or Mel C, is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. She is a member of the Spice Girls, where she is best known by the nickname Sporty Spice. Active mainly between 1996 and 1998, the Spice Girls are among the greatest female groups in the history of music, with more than 100 million records sold and 10 singles that reached number 1 around the world.

Melanie C also enjoyed success throughout her solo career. In 1999 she released her first album, Northern Star, which contains the hits Never Be The Same Again, a duet with Lisa Lopes, and I Turn To You, and it sold more than 5 million copies.

In 2003 she published her second album, Reason, which, together with the singles Here It Come Again and On The Horizon, sold more than 500,000 copies in the United Kingdom alone.

The following year she embarked on an entrepreneurial venture and founded her own record label, Red Girls Records. In 2005 she released the album Beautiful Intentions, whose hit First Day Of My Life sold more than 1.5 million copies and became platinum in many countries.

With all the albums that followed (This Time (2007), The Sea (2011), The Stages (2012), Version Of Me (2016) and Melanie C (2020)), Melanie C's discography forms an eclectic body of work, blending pop, rock, electronic music, R&B and other influences, which the artist performs on stage all over the world.

In 2001, her song I Turn To You, released directly as a remix/single and produced by Hex Hector, won a Grammy Award for Best Remix of the Year, a first in the history of the award.

With 12 UK number 1 singles, she is also the first British female artist with the most number 1 singles in the country. The artist has sold more than 131 million records, including 26 million as a solo singer and 105 million as a Spice Girl.