Emma Bunton

Biography of Emma Bunton

Emma Lee Bunton was born on January 21, 1976 in Finchley, London. She is a British singer. In the 1990s, she was a member of the British pop girl group Spice Girls as Baby Spice.

Emma Bunton was born the only daughter of milkman Trevor Bunton and his wife Pauline, a karate instructor. Her parents separated in 1987 when Bunton was eleven years old. Bunton then stayed with her mother and grew up in her birthplace, the London borough of Finchley. She attended Underhill primary school in Barnet and then London's Sylvia Young Theater School.

In 1994, on the advice of her singing teacher, Bunton joined the Spice Girlsafter the original fifth member, Michelle Stephenson, left the band for family reasons. The group then released three studio albums (Spice, Spiceworld and Forever) and developed into one of the most successful music phenomena, not least thanks to ten worldwide number 1 hits and a total of more than 40 million records sold the 1990s. As of 2001, the members of the band went their separate ways.

Bunton made her first solo television appearance in 1998 with Rod Steward. They sang his hit Tonight's the Night on British television. She also had the opportunity to demonstrate her solo skills during the 1998 Spiceworld Tour.

In 2001 she released her debut studio album A Girl Like Me. Despite selling more than 500,000 copies worldwide, Bunton was unable to match the success of the Spice Girls.

After two years of production, Bunton's second studio album, Free Me, was released in spring 2004.

In 2006 Bunton was involved in the fifth season of the UK television show Strictly Come Dancing which aired from October to December 2006.

On December 4, 2006, her album Life in Mono was released, which reached number 65 in the UK charts. Due to her pregnancy, she decided in March 2007 to temporarily end her musical solo career. In the meantime, however, she often emphasized that music was her first love. Her last singing performance was on the British evening TV show One Night Only in 2008, in which she sang a duet of the classic Let's Face the Music and Dance.

In 2018 Emma Bunton signed a record deal with BMG. The first single, Baby Please Don't Stop, was released in February 2019. The album My Happy Place will follow in April 2019.

Bunton made his acting debut in 1993. She has appeared in the British series The Bill as Janice and in the TV movie Play the King as a prostitute. In 1997 she made her big screen debut in Spiceworld - The Movie In Which She Impersonated Herself.

She starred alongside Brenda Blethyn as Pop Angel in the 2001 short film Yes You Can. In 2005 she starred in two Bollywood films: Pyaar Mein Twist as a dancer and Chocolate as Anna. She has also appeared a number of times on the British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous. She has had other comedy appearances, including on the British TV show Bo' Selecta. In 2016, she had a cameo in the motion picture film Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

Bunton already practiced as a moderator in the 90s. During her work at heart fm, she has already interviewed some big personalities such as e.g. B. Johnny Depp, Sarah Jessica Parker or Meryl Streep as well as her friend and bandmate Melanie C. She was also a jury member of the ITV show Dancing on Ice until 2011. In 2018, she was a guest judge on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

On August 10, 2007 and May 6, 2011, Bunton gave birth to two sons in London. The father of both children is their longtime friend Jade Jones, a British boy band singer.