Calvin Goldspink

Calvin Goldspink ( born January 24, 1989 in Great Yarmouth ) is a British actor and singer. He is best known as a member of the British pop group S Club 8, the successor to the S Club 7

Life and career

He was originally born in Great Yarmouth and then moved to Aberdeen in Scotland with his family. There he attended Cults Academy.

At age 12, Calvin took a casting of the British BBC television, in part. In this casting was an opening act for the new tour of S Club 7, wanted. Around 12,000 children and young people took part in this casting. Calvin made ​​it to the finals and was a member of the eight -piece band S Club Juniors.

2001-2005

After the Carnival tour of S Club 7 S Club Juniors released their first single One Step Closer. This placed to number 2 in the UK single charts. The end of 2002 was the first studio album, Together, published. Together reached number 5 in the UK album charts and was certified platinum. From this album comes four top -10 singles. In 2003, she went with the S Club back on the road, the S Club United tour. At the end of the year, the Juniors won the title of Best Newcomer at the Disney Channel Kids Awards.

After the dissolution of S Club S Club Juniors was renamed S Club 8. Then a second album, Sundown, and three other top 20 singles was released.

In 2004, the band spent three months in Barcelona for filming the BBC series I Dream. The series was a great success in England, but also in some European countries and Australia. To promote the series, has a new album, Welcome to Avalon Heights published. The first single from this album was a duet between Frankie and Calvin with the title Dreaming. This was their last single before the group was disbanded in the spring of 2005.

2007

In January 2007, Calvin moved to Los Angeles after he has been in the summer of 2006, the camp of Seth Riggs Singing discovered. He took part in an audition and won the role of Oliver Bans in the U.S. series Life is Wild. End of February 2007, he took in South Africa on the 45 -minute pilot episode. A short time later, the complete 13-part series in South Africa was filmed.

In Germany Life is wild was broadcast on Sixx. The periods were from May to August 2010, and August to end of October 2010. In the German version is called its role Colin Banks. His voice German is spoken by David Turba.

2009-2012

Published in early 2009 Calvin from his official MySpace page his first solo songs. Within 14 days his MySpace page has been visited more than 100,000 times and after one years more than 650,000 hits had taken place. The first songs on his MySpace page were Do not Fail Me, Dance in the rain, Lonely, Bright Lights, Take my hand and Never not beautiful. The U.S. singer and actress Jessica Simpson wrote the song Never not beautiful for Calvin. To the manager of his music career was Joe Simpson, father of Jessica and Ashlee.

Calvin published in mid-August 2010 on Twitter that he spent a week in New York and has recorded new songs. There he worked with the hit-maker Claude Kelly. This is behind the success of the song Circus by Britney Spears and My Life Would Suck Without You by Kelly Clarkson. Other songs he took in London, with various producers on. Calvin announced on his official Twitter page that his album will be released in 2012. An exact date is not known yet.

2011 played Goldspink James Middleton, the younger brother of Kate Middleton in the film William and Kate - A fairy tale come true. The film is about the love story between Prince William and Kate Middleton. Filming began on February 24, 2011.

Filmography

  • 2001: S Club Search ( TV series)
  • 2002: S Club Juniors: The Story ( TV series)
  • 2002: Viva S Club ( TV series)
  • 2004: I Dream ( TV series)
  • 2007: Life is Wild ( TV series)
  • 2011: William and Kate - A fairy tale comes true
  • 2011: The Pitch

Awards

  • Disney Channel Kids Awards 2003 - Best Newcomer
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