Melanie C has always been a performer at heart. Melanie Chisholm was one of the persons there when the Spice Girls rose to prominence. Melanie is a distinctive Spice Girl who later achieved significantly more recognition as a solo performer than she did as a band member. Chisholm had a great solo career after her time with the Spice Girls, but she indicated she still would embrace the opportunity to play with her former bandmates. The Spice Girls became one of the finest girl bands in the 1990s. The group performed to sold-out stadiums and brought the girl power movement with them wherever they went. The Sporty Spice is or was struggling a lot, despite appearing to be living out her greatest goals of travelling the world, recording music, singing, and enjoying every aspect of her solo career. The singer believed it was crucial to speak about her difficulties with depression and an eating disorder in her biography Who I Am so that it might be helpful to others. Getting the incredible opportunity to be a member of the wonderful band Spice Girls was a real knock to her self-esteem. She always tried hard and made sacrifices as she felt she had to keep herself perfect to deserve all of the success. Get yourself a copy which will get you acquainted with the inspiring hurdles and mellows in the life of Mel C.

An intimate memoir from international pop star Melanie Chisholm--better known as Mel C. or Sporty Spice--chronicling her trajectory from small-town girl to overnight icon as part of the Spice Girls. 25 years ago, The Spice Girls, a girl band that began after five women answered an ad in the paper, released their first single. 'Wannabe' became a hit and from that moment and, almost overnight, Melanie Chisholm went from small town girl to Sporty Spice, part of one of the biggest music groups in history. Beginning in her bedroom in the north-west of England dreaming of performing on stage, THE SPORTY ONE follows the meteoric rise of the Melanie and The Spice Girls, from the incredible highs of becoming one of the world’s most recognizable popstars – playing at Wembley, conquering the BRITs, closing the Olympics – to the difficult lows. For the first time ever, Melanie talks about the pressures of fame, the shaming and bullying she experienced, the struggles she has had with her body image and mental health, and the difficulty of finding yourself when the whole world knows your name. THE SPORTY ONE is an incredible story of resilience, hope and how you can find your power.

The Spice Girls are everywhere -- and so are these books, including The New York Times best-seller list, hitting at #5. With sales of over half a million copies and counting, these books -- like the five girls themselves -- show no signs of stopping!

The Spice Girls are everywhere -- and so are these books, including The New York Times best-seller list, hitting at #5. With sales of over half a million copies and counting, these books -- like the five girls themselves -- show no signs of stopping!

Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-marketing tactics and through influence on each other's performative strategies and stylistic content. Typically only studied as separate entities, popular music and sport cultures mutually 'play' off each other in exchanges of style, ideologies and forms. Posing unique challenges to notions of mind - body dualities, nationalism, class, gender, and racial codes and sexual orientation, Dr Ken McLeod illuminates the paradoxical and often conflicting relationships associated with these modes of leisure and entertainment and demonstrates that they are not culturally or ideologically distinct but are interconnected modes of contemporary social practice. Examples include how music is used to enhance sporting events, such as anthems, chants/cheers, and intermission entertainment, music that is used as an active part of the athletic event, and music that has been written about or that is associated with sports. There are also connections in the use of music in sports movies, television and video games and important, though critically under-acknowledged, similarities regarding spectatorship, practice and performance. Despite the scope of such confluences, the extraordinary impact of the interrelationship of music and sports on popular culture has remained little recognized. McLeod ties together several influential threads of popular culture and fills a significant void in our understanding of the construction and communication of identity in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The Spice Girls are a pop girl band formed in London, England, UK during 1994. The group's menbers were Melanie Brown, aka Mel B (Scary Spice), Melanie Chisholm, aka Mel C (Sporty Spice), Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), and Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice). They were signed to Virgin Records then issued their debut single Wannabe in 1996, which topped the charts in 37 countries.

From the concert stage to the dressing room, from the recording studio to the digital realm, SPIN surveys the modern musical landscape and the culture around it with authoritative reporting, provocative interviews, and a discerning critical ear. With dynamic photography, bold graphic design, and informed irreverence, the pages of SPIN pulsate with the energy of today's most innovative sounds. Whether covering what's new or what's next, SPIN is your monthly VIP pass to all that rocks.