Spice Girl Emma Bunton wasn't the
first to venture off from her dance-pop band the
Spice Girls for a solo career. Melanie C. was most
triumphant with her 1999 debut A Northern Star while
Melanie B. and ex-Spice Geri Halliwell earned mild
reviews. But like her fellow musical mates, Baby
Spice aimed for solo success during the new
millennium. However, it wouldn't have been nearly as
possible if it weren't for her millions and massive
praise made while fronting one of Britain's biggest
pop acts to emerge during the 1990s.
Emma Lee Bunton was born on January 21, 1976, in
Barnet in north London. Her father, Trevor, and
mother, Pauline, split when Emma was 11, but the
event wasn't traumatic like it is for most children
of divorce. She was already busy with
extracurricular activities such as modeling and
doing commercials. Bunton's time spent at St.
Theresa's Roman Catholic primary school was typical,
yet Bunton's passion for her hobbies turned full-scale
as she spent her formal theater years at Sylvia
Young Theatre School. Already a natural in front of
the camera, she left secondary at 16 and began
studying drama at Barnet Technical College. It would
be several years later that she met the group that
would make her a star. Bunton was still a young,
bubbly teenager when she was christened Baby Spice
in 1993. The rest of the decade was a whirlwind with
winning the world over with the Spice Girls'
infectious pop energy. Five years spanned a career
in entertainment, and at the dawning of the new
millennium, Emma Bunton had other ideas. She was now
a woman in her twenties and a bright mind of
creative ideas. Her soul sisters were already moving
on with solo projects and Baby Spice wouldn't be
left behind.
She guested on Tin Tin Out's "What I Am in 1999, but
two years later, a fresh-faced Bunton returned with
her debut album A Girl Like Me. Its first single "What
Took You So Long?" shot to number one during its
first week of release in mid-April, sustaining a two
week reign. Bunton became the only Spice Girl to
have a solo single stay at number one for more than
one week. Her chart success continued into 2003 with
"Free Me" and "Maybe," two singles from her second
effort, Free Me. The sophisticated pop sound caught
on with fans and earned Bunton her third hit, "I'll
Be There", in 2004. Free Me was released in the
States in early 2005. |
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