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Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born January 12, 1974) is a British pop singer who was a member of the Spice Girls, where she was known as Sporty Spice or Mel C. She has also enjoyed some success as a solo artist.
Born in Liverpool, 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 mid-1990s, 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 was widely considered the "most musically talented" Spice Girl.
In the fall of 1999 she made her solo debut with "Northern Star". Featuring the #1 hits "Never be the same again" and "I turn to you", the album mixed a lot of influences, especially Grunge, and turned out to be a commercial success in Europe. It was certified x3 platinum in the UK and sold 2 million copies worldwide. It sold 83.000 copies in the US, entering at #208.
After a long break, Melanie C returned to the music scene in February 2003 with the album "Reason", which failed to make an impact on the charts, selling only 80.000 copies in the UK. Critics didn't like the album either, slating it as "watered-down guitary pap".
Following the huge flop of this record, Melanie was dropped by her record company Virgin Records a few months later. She still plans to come back in 2005 under her own label "Red Girl Records".