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Full Sugababes Biography
The Sugababes are a BRIT Award-winning British pop group trio from London, and are the "Most Successful Female Act of the 21st Century".
The group formed in 1998. Releasing eighteen singles, 6 of those reaching #1 in the UK (plus the #1 with Band Aid 20) and five albums that have reached top 40 charts worldwide, they have had more top ten hits with original songs than any other girl group since The Supremes, Destiny's Child, and Bananarama. The Sugababes are one of the few British groups to have four of their albums reach the top 3. In 2003, they won a Brit Award for "Best Dance Act".
The group have so far attained at least platinum album sales from four of their albums in their native UK.. They have also gained success around Europe and Asia with Number One singles in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Austria and New Zealand. The group became the first pop group ever to play the main stage at the popular Glastonbury Festival.
Upon their release of "About You Now", the Sugababes became the first group to have a single chart at #1 based on downloads alone, and are also the only all female act to have topped the single, album and download chart simultaneously twice.
The name 'Sugababes' originates from Buchanan's school nickname, 'Sugar baby'. While recording the album the band was officially known as "The Sugababies" (an unreleased track from these sessions repeats over and over "Sugababies on the run, shake it shake it"). When all the band members were aged just fourteen, they were offered a record contract by London Records and tweaked their name to the more mature "Sugababes". This is also possibly due to the fact that there was already a band called "Sugababies".
The fourth single "Shape", which samples the Sting track "Shape of My Heart", made number eleven in the UK and made the top 10 in the Netherlands and Ireland in early 2003. The single featured a live version of "Freak like Me" which they performed at the 2003 BRIT Awards, having won the award for "Best British Dance Act". Their success also led to them recording a new track, entitled "Party in the Club", for the theme tune to ITV's teenage drama show Girls in Love, based on the book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson.
The group's third album Three was released in late 2003 and continued success reaching number three on the UK Album Chart, preceded by the Xenomania produced "Hole in the Head". It was the groups's third UK number one single and their first number one in Denmark. It reached number two in Ireland, Netherlands and Norway, and also became the babes' first single to chart in the official Billboard charts peaking at #96 and hit the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart at #1. It also performed well on the Hot Dance Airplay chart.
The second single, "Too Lost in You", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Love Actually and was written by Diane Warren, went top ten in the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Norway, as well as going top ten on both sides of the Straits of Taiwan (Taiwan and China). The song was originally recorded in French by Patricia Kaas and entitled "Quand J'ai Peur De Tout" . The album's third single, "In the Middle", released in 2004, went to number 8 in the UK. The fourth single to be released from "Three" was the ballad, "Caught in a Moment", gave the girls another top 10 hit, peaking at number 8, backed by tracks recorded from their Sessions@AOL appearance.
The third single was a re-recorded version of "Red Dress", which was released in early 2006, and gave the group a third consecutive top 5 hit from the album entering the UK singles chart at number four. Berrabah re-recorded 3 tracks and co-wrote a brand new track with Buchanan and Range, all of these appeared on a re-release of Taller in More Ways, which reached 18 in the UK chart.
The final single from Taller in More Ways was "Follow Me Home", released only in the UK in June, where it charted at 32, which is Sugababes lowest chart position ever.
After their successful Greatest Hits Tour, the Sugababes returned to the recording studio in summer 2007 to work on their fifth album, which would also be the first album that features all vocals done by Berrabah, Buchanan, and Range together. The group have once again chosen to work with William Orbit and the American producer Dallas Austin who worked with the group on a number of tracks from their number one 2005 album Taller In More Ways, alongside Novel, who has worked with Stacie Orrico and Kent-based Xenomania, who have provided the group with 2 UK #1 singles in the past.
Sugababes have appeared on many music shows such as CD:UK, TOTP, MTV, Popworld, VIVA, awards shows such as the MOBO Awards, NME Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, BRIT Awards and TV shows such as The Paul O'Grady Show, BBC 1, T4, The Charlotte Church Show, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and others. Live performances include Glastonbury festival, Prince's Trust, Live 8 Edinburgh, and performing in countries around the world including Portugal, Germany, Japan, Australia and South Africa among others. They performed to over 1 million people in 2005 alone. |
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