Emma Bunton
Emma Lee Bunton ( born January 21, 1976 in Finchley, London) is a British singer, songwriter, television and radio presenter and actress who became famous in the 1990s as a member of the British pop girl group Spice Girls, here as Baby Spice, .
- 2.1 Studio albums
- 2.2 Singles
Biography
Youth and Family
Emma Bunton was born the only daughter of the milkman Trevor Bunton and his wife Pauline, a karate teacher. Her parents split up in 1987, when Bunton was eleven years old. Bunton then remained with her mother and was raised in her birthplace, the London Borough of Finchley.
Bunton attended Underhill primary school in Barnet. She then attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London.
On 10 August 2007 Bunton gave birth to a son in London. The father is her longtime boyfriend Jade Jones, a British Boygroupsänger. Bunton brought a second son together on 6 May 2011 to the world.
Spice Girls
1994 closed Bunton after the advice of her singing teacher the Spice Girls (then still touch ) to after the original fifth member, Michelle Stephenson, the band had to leave for family reasons. The group then published three studio albums (Spice, Spiceworld and Forever ) and developed thanks ten worldwide number - one hits ( including Wannabe, 2 Become 1 and Viva Forever ) and a total of more than 40 million records sold to one of the most successful music phenomena 1990s. As of 2001, the band members went their separate ways.
Six years after their separation, the Spice Girls have announced a world tour with eleven concerts in June 2007. In her comeback, the Spice Girls came back to the original line. The tour was a great success and was characterized by 47 sold-out concerts. Besides, it was the most successful tour of the year 2008. 2007 they were dedicated named Spice One, which have dedicated all five band members, and even by the airline Virgin Atlantic aircraft. In March 2007, the band was honored as icons in London by Capital FM. The award took Bunton counter along with Melanie Chisholm. 2010 was the band again an award for the Most memorable performance at the Brit Awards 1997 ( received by Geri Halliwell and Mel B). The end of 2011 her musical with the title Viva Forever. This will be listed in London and run by Judy Craymer produced ( producer of Mamma Mia ). Furthermore, it is written by Jennifer Saunders ( Absolutely Fabulous, etc.).
Solo career
Her first solo TV appearance had Bunton 1998, together with Rod Stewart. They sang his hit Tonight's The Night in British TV. Furthermore, Bunton had the opportunity of Spice World Tour to put their solo skills to the test during 1998. There she sang the Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go classic. Published in 2001 Bunton their first studio album A Girl Like Me The board brought the British No. 1 hit What Took You So Long?, The Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians Cover What I Am (Is What I Am ) and the top 10 single Take My Breath Away with. Nevertheless Bunton could not build on the success of the Spice Girls world despite more than 500,000 copies sold. Virgin Records parted then by Bunton, who signed a new contract with Simon Fuller's 19 Management and Polydor Records the following year.
In June 2002, Bunton appeared on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II at the Party at the Palace in the garden of Buckingham Palace and sang the song Baby Love the Supremes.
After two years of production, appeared in spring 2004 with Free Me Buntons second studio album. The 60 's pop and bossa nova embossed plate produced three Top 10 with the title song from the coupled and the singles Free Me, Maybe, I'll Be There and Crickets Sing for Anamaria - out and a top 20 hit. Subsequent attempts to establish the album on the U.S. music market, failed; Remixes of the song Free Me and Maybe able to prevail only in airplay and club play charts.
2006 Bunton was involved in the October to December 2006 broadcast of fifth season of the TV show Strictly Come Dancing in the UK.
On November 20, 2006 saw Buntons single Downtown, a cover of the world's successful songs from 1964. The video includes all participants of the already tarnished show Strictly Come Dancing. In the UK, the song immediately debuted at # 3 on the charts. Two weeks later, on 4 December 2006 their album Life was released in mono, which place reached 65 in the UK charts. On February 12, 2007 All I Need to Know appeared as the second single from the album and reached due to lack of promotion only number 60 on the UK Singles Charts. The video was shot in London in late December 2006. Due to her pregnancy, she and her management in March 2007 Buntons decided to end musical solo career temporarily. In the meantime, however, still tend Bunton emphasized that music seie her first love. Your last singing performance in 2008 there were in the British evening TV show One Night Only, in which she sang the classic Let's Face the Music and Dance in a duet.
Acting Career
Back in 1993, Bunton had made their first steps in acting. She had an appearance in the British series The Bill in the role of Janice and in the TV movie Play the King in the role of a prostitute. In 1997, she made her film debut in Spice World - The Movie, in which she played herself. Besides Brenda Blethyn you saw them in 2001 in the short film Yes You Can Pop as Angel. In 2005, she starred in two Bollywood films: Pyaar Mein Twist as a dancer and Chocolat as Anna. Emma was also frequently in the British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous to see (most recently in late 2011 ). More comedy concerts they had among others in the British TV show Bo ' Selecta.
Radio and television career
Already in the 90s Bunton practiced as a presenter. She had on the British music channel VH1 their own, one-hour music show called Emma, which was aired with great success. Among other things, she co - hosted the German version of Top of the Pops along with Melanie C in 1998 on RTL. Since 2009, Bunton works as a radio presenter for British broadcaster heart fm. Because enjoyed this great popularity, Bunton was also used in other shows (eg pregnancy as representation ). During her work at heart fm, Bunton has some great personalities interviewed such as Johnny Depp, Sarah Jessica Parker and Meryl Streep and her friend and bandmate Melanie C. In addition, Emma was until 2011 Jury member of the ITV show Dancing on Ice.
Designer career
Since 2011, the British fashion chain Argos markets the created by Bunton 's Clothing. Her collection has since enjoyed great popularity.