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Selling over 75 million records and scoring nine UK Number 1 singles, the Spice Girls became the biggest pop phenomenon of the 1990s and blessed a generation of teenage girls with the battle-cry "Girl power". Upon their split in 2000, it was the high-kicking, tracksuit-clad, Sporty Spice, aka Melanie C, who underwent the biggest change, teaming up with Bryan Adams for the hit duet When You're Gone and unveiling an armful of tattoos and rocking out like a gnarly old punk on her debut solo single Goin' Down. She topped the UK singles chart with the R&B ballad Never Be The Same Again and dance anthem I Turn To You, while the album Northern Star (1999) made her the most successful and credible solo Spice Girl. Second album Reason (2003) produced the Top 10 hit Here It Comes Again, but later records Beautiful Intentions (2005) and This Time (2007) made little impact and Melanie reunited with Spice Girls in 2007 for a Greatest Hits album and world tour. Artist biography compiled by BDS/West 10. All rights reserved
