Biography
Bunton was natural to parents Pauline, the karate instructor, and Trevor, the milkman, by owning 1 sib, the immature brother known as PJ. Her parents stock split whenever she was Eleven, & she stayed using her mother. Bunton grew higher north London suburb of Woodside Park.

She attended St Theresa's Roman Catholic Primary School around Finchley, then went in to return a Dame Sylvia Young Drama School in London.

She joined a Spice Girls around 1994 when a original fifth Spice Girl, Michelle Stephenson, left the class action. A Spice Girls stopped recording within 2000.

Her foremost solo album entitled A Girl Like Me (2001) spawned the first hit "What Took You So Long", top 5 hits "What I Am" & "Take My Breath Away" & top twenty hit "We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight". A album sold in the area of 125,000 in the U.K. however this was non sufficient for her record company, world health organization dropped her. She as well recorded the track "(Hey You) Free Up Your Mind" for Pokémon: The First Movie (1999).

Nonetheless she presently recovered from either existence dropped, & signed the locate Nineteen Management which involved TV operate & cathartic music. Inside spring 2003 she returned when Emma (losing a Bunton), by having a top 5 hit "Free Me" & later on that season discharged "Maybe" which as well went top decade & outsold a last only. Around spring 2004 a only "I'll Be There" & a album Free Me were released. A album contained sixties style popular gems & went in to outsell her foremost album, something more solo Spice Girls develop eventually to achieve.

In a do-as much as the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, rumours circulated that Emma was existence lined higher as a uncommon large-title representative for a UK, inside an attempt to wipe away the national humiliation of the 'nul points' achieved per last season's inexperient entrants Jemini. This didn't materialise, however a fwork that she ended higher performing a interval act in the UK's Eurovision pre-choice indicate Making Your computers Mind Higher suggested there will keep around been the glimmer of truth in the rumor at a bit of stage. the performance gave her a second outlet to indulge her passion for sixties pop - she began by using a homesick burst of the UK's winning song from either a 1967 Eurovision Song Contest, "Puppet On a String", which so melted into her have hit "Maybe".

A album Loose Us freed in the United States in January 25, 2005, failing to make a top 200 albums & selling lone 2,817 copies. A number 1 individual in the U.S. occurs as dance remix of a title track, which reached a Top Five of each a Dance Airplay chart & the Club Play chart. "Maybe" besides followed "Free Me"'s profits in the America Dance stock and index charts.

Studio albums

2001: A Girl Like Me - #4 UK; #2 BRA; #1 THA UK sales: 125,000; Bandeau sales: 250,000 - Worldwide sales: 500,000 2004: Free Me - #7 UK; #26 BRA; #226 US UK sales: 150,000 - Worldwide sales: 300,000

Singles

1999: "What I Am" (Tin Tin Out exploit. Emma Bunton) - #2 UK 2001: "What Took You So Long" - #1 (Two weeks) UK 2001: "Take My Breath Away" - #5 UK 2001: "We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight" - #20 UK 2003: "Free Me" - #5 UK 2003: "Maybe" - #6 UK 2004: "I'll Be There" - #7 UK 2004: "Crickets Sing for Anamaria" - #15 UK