Emma Bunton
Emma Lee Bunton (born January 21, 1976) is a British singer, originally in the girl band the Spice Girls, where she was known as "Baby Spice".
Bunton was born to parents Pauline, a karate instructor, and Trevor, a milkman. They split up when she was 11, and she stayed with her mother.
Bunton grew up in the north London suburb of Finchley.
She joined the Spice Girls after the original fifth Spice Girl, Michelle Stephenson, left the group.
She attended the Dame Sylvia Young Drama School in London.
Her first album entitled "A Girl Like Me" spawned the number one hit What Took You So Long, top five hits What I Am and Take My Breath Away and top twenty hit We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight. The album sold around 120,000 in the U.K. but this was not sufficient for her record company, who dropped her.
However she soon recovered from this, and signed a contract with 19 management which included tv work and releasing music. In spring 2003 Emma returned with the top five hit "Free Me" and later that year released "Maybe" which also went top ten and outsold the previous single. In spring 2004 the single "I'll Be There" and album "Free Me" were released. The album contained sixties style pop gems and went on to outsell her first album, something other solo Spice Girls have yet to achieve.
