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Melanie Chisholm
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Melanie Jayne Chisholm was born on January 12, 1974, in Merseyside, England. Her mother Joan was a singer in a rock band, who first met Melanie's father, Alan Chisholm, in The Cavern, a club in Liverpool where the Beatles played their early shows. Melanie's parents divorced and both remarried when she was a little girl; as a result, she now has one brother, four half-brothers and one half-sister.
As a child, Melanie took ballet lessons, and showed great athletic and dancing promise. She also became a devoted fan of the Liverpool Football Club. After high school, Melanie attended the Doreen Bird Performing Arts College in Kent, but she was about to achieve showbiz fame along a different route. In 1994, she auditioned for a new all-girl pop group, originally called "Touch" and the brainchild of promoter Chris Herbert. Melanie almost missed her final callback thanks to a bout of chronic tonsilitis; nevertheless, out of thousands of hopefuls, Melanie -- along with Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, and Emma Bunton -- made the cut. |
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