Michelle Gayle
Michelle Gayle ( born February 2, 1971 in London) is a British singer and actress. In the 1990s, she had some hit singles in Europe, of which there are 1994, Do You Know managed Sweetness 1997 in the top 10 in the UK charts.
Biography
Michelle Gayle attended the ' Barbara Speake Stage School ' in Acton, where Naomi Campbell was one of her classmates. At 17, she played the role of Fiona Wilson in Grange Hill, a television series of the BBC. In 1990, she moved to East Enders, the first soap about a black family on British television. Your role name was Hattie Tavernier. After three years she left the production in order to devote himself to her music career.
A deal with RCA Records in 1993 enabled the first single release. Looking Up rose in August in the UK charts and missed 11th place just under the top 10 even better ran it a year later for the title of Sweetness, the number 4 in the UK reached and there sold a total of 300,000 copies. In Switzerland and in Germany the song debuted in the charts.
On the 1994 debut album, which was produced by Narada Michael Walden and Simon Climie, beside the two other hits singles were included. I'll Find You enterte 1994 No. 26, 1995 Freedom Square 16 in the UK charts. A quarter of a year later Happy Just to Be with You reached number 11 in England and a middle position in Germany. This success owed Gayle 1995, two nominations at the BRIT Awards, one as a ' female Best Female Artist ' ( Best Female ) and another for Best Single ( Best Single).
Under the name Child Liners Gayle took in addition to various other artists such as Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, MN8, Sean Maguire, Deuce, Ultimate Kaos, East 17, Peter Andre and Dannii Minogue, the Christmas single The Gift of Christmas, which is on in December 1995 Rank 9 on the British charts make it.
1997 return Michelle Gayle with the singles Do You Know ( 6th place) and Sensational ( 14th) in the charts back. The accompanying album Sensational rose in May of the year at number 17 in the album charts and stayed there for three weeks. The record company was not happy with the sales figures and ended the cooperation with the Londoner who now signed a contract with EMI. Me One and Ivan Matias wrote songs that were recorded by Gayle. For publication but it never came, because she left the label in 1999 after restructuring and went back to her job as an actress. In the same year she played a role in Beauty and the Beast, a West End production.
After a pause, in which she took care of her son Isaiah, Michelle started her own music production company M Media Productions. In 2003, the singer participated in the American TV show Reborn in the USA, in the former pop stars competed against each other, fighting for a new record deal. She enrolled in behind Tony Hadley, the lead singer of Spandau Ballet, the second place. With the New York producer Terence Dudley, who also worked for 50 cents, Got to Be Me was The single was indeed promoted, but not a hit.
2005 Michelle returned to their roots and played the Cara in the soap opera Family Affairs on Channel 5 In the same year she landed the lead female role of Yvonne in The Enemy Within (Original Title: Joy Division ), a film set in World War II. 2006 once Gayle took third place in the Channel 4 show The Games, competed at the celebrities in Olympic disciplines against each other. A year later she was daily in Loose Women to see the flagship ITV.
A renewed attempt to return to the music industry on the path to success was the participation in the UK preselection for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2008. Their title Woo ( U Make Me), she had to admit defeat to the former X -Factor finalist Andy Abraham.