Sugababes

Biography of Sugababes

The Sugababes are a London-based British pop girl group whose original line-up formed in 1998.

The group was formed by Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and Siobhán Donaghy. After the first album and Top Ten hit Overload, Donaghy left the group in 2001 due to disputes with management and band members. With the arrival of Heidi Range, the band made their final commercial breakthrough in 2002 with their first number one single, Freak Like Me.

In 1998, friends Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and Siobhán Donaghy decided to form a girl band. They got in touch with Cameron McVey, manager of the All Saints at the time, who within a few months helped the then fourteen-year-old girl get a record deal with London Records.

A little later, the trio began recording their debut album. In September 2000, Overload, the first single from the album One Touch, was released.

In early 2002, Liverpool-based Atomic Kitten founding member Heidi Range replaced Donaghy. The new line-up consequently signed a deal with Island Records and began studio recording of their new album, Angels with Dirty Faces.

In the fall of the same year, the band released their third studio album, Three.

In October 2005, the band's fourth album, Taller in More Ways, was released. Written and produced by Dallas Austin, the first single, Push the Button, is the Sugababes' most successful single to date.

On the album Hello Waveforms by British sound artist William Orbit, released in early 2006, the Sugababes, albeit still in the old line-up with Buena, contributed the vocal part of the title Spiral together with the Ethiopian-US American singer Kenna.

On November 10, 2006, the band's first best-of album, Overloaded: The Singles Collection, was released.

On October 8, 2007, the fifth album Change was released, the first album in which Berrabah can be heard in all songs.

The sixth studio album, titled Catfights and Spotlights, was released in the UK in October 2008. The album climbed to number 8 there, but failed to chart in any other country.

The first single from the Sweet 7 album, Get Sexy, was released in the UK on August 31, 2009 and peaked at number 2. Get Sexy is the last single to be heard on the Keisha Buchanan is.

In March 2010, the BBC reported that Buena, a founding member, had filed a lawsuit against the use of the name "Sugababes". In her opinion, the band no longer exists without a founding member. She subsequently won limited rights to the name in 2011. Buena may in future use the name to market certain items, such as cardboard and paper products. The band may continue to call themselves the Sugababes.

On April 11, 2010, two more albums containing only B-sides, The Best of the B's and The Complete B's, were released in the UK.

In the summer of 2019, founding members Buena, Buchanan and Donaghy recorded the track Flowers (Dj spoony feat. Sugababes). This was released as an album track on Dj Spoony's Garage Classical Album in October 2019.