Melanie
As a Kid and Teen!!
Heyyyy!
What a Wicked picture! It`s mel and her bunch of groovy friends on top
of a fence in Leeds. I love this picture. Guess who is Melanie G? hehehe
A SHORT STORY ON MELANIE'S WICKED LIFE!
Read a small story about Mel's
life before joining the spice girls. How was she as a baby, a girl and
a teenager? Read to find out! (if u want this on your page, you have to
ask me and give credit)
Melanie Janine Brown (now married to after name Gulzar) was borned on the date 29 May 1975 to parents Martin and Andrea Brown, a couple who had faced some racial problems over their mixed-raced marriage. Martin was originally from the tiny Caribbean island Nevis, where Mel's grandmother and other relatives still live. Martin was a night-shift worker at a local engineering factory and did long hours at work to provide a good home for his family. Thats Boy power at the best after my opinion. They lived in a modest semi-deteched house in an area named Burley in Leeds. It was a world away from how Victoria lived with her pool; Mel's dad was more used to going to work on an old racing bike than a Rolls Royce. Money may have been tight at the Brown's household, but Melanie and her five years younger sister <Danielle> had a very happy and wicked childhood.Danielle Brown. Melanies 5 year old younger sister.
Melanie had some wicked summers. Here she is with her friend Rebecca. Go to the multimedia page and listen to mels long and cool descriptions.
"I used to go camping in Wales with my family for most of the holidays, but when I was at home, I went to a lot of dance classes. And every year I went to Skegness with my parents for a big holiday dancing competition for two weeks. It was great to meet up with all the people I hadn't seen for a year. We did all kinds of dancing there-ballet, tap, modern, duets , troupes and national dances. In the evenings I either went to the funfair opposite or just hung out in a big group."Melanie a Mixed Raced girl on her own 2 feet! "I'm neither black or white. I'm mixed, completly MIXED that means I've got the best of both worlds"
Melanie tells this about her background as a mixed raced child: "Even when I was born, somebody asked my mum <If the world was split in two parts, black or white. Where would your daughter be?> I was so lucky that my mum and dad were so cool when I grew up. They respected each others cultures and mixed them and were happy about it. Wich is rare. This is ME I am mixed race.
When I was young I diden't see colour for a long time, because it wasemt an issue at home. Then as I grew up, i sometimes saw the different way some people acted towards me. When I was in primary school I used to get called 'Paki', because they didn't know what else to call me. It was like "What is she then?" I often went to my parents and say Iam called this and that and why am I this color? They'd just say "Because you are" They took it all great. I just worked on myself and made myself happy. I used to write a lot. When you're mixed race, you're a living proof that society has changed, that barries have broken together and that peopel are comming together. So you should stand up and say YES I AM MIXED RACE!
I was different to my mixed race friends at school because i respected both sides. I did'nt hang out to either white or black peopel. I did'nt speak the black ghetto language and I didn't talk snobby white talk. I got on with everyone so I got called Bounty. Black on outside and white inside. I coulden't understand it.
BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU COME FROM, WHOEVER YOU ARE!"--------------------continue of mels growing up:----------------------
Like emma, melc and Vic was also Melanie a precious young performer who loved getting attention. She got involved in her infant school plays and took ballet lessons, she always seemed to be ahead of other girls. As a young one she had a natural rhytmn and a lot of confidence for a little girl. That lead her to join a community dance group. She was only eleven when the class was made up for much older and even adults. Mel wasen't worried at all. She had far to much belif in her own ability to worry about anyone else. Just look at the picture bellow when she got older:
OUCH look at that body position!
The dance lesons helped her progress and made her realise she wanted a career in dance and music. her parents fully supported her and at the age of 13 she went to Intake High School, wich was the only school in the are to offer good musick education. The teachers saw how gifted she was very fast. Mel appeard in many productions and school plays, including Jesus christ superstar. During 3 years at Intake (at the age of 13-16), MR Robbins witnessed the strenght og character that would secure mel a place as a Spice Girl. Even then she was a loud girl, telling peopel excactly what she meant. She was very confident, she wasnted to be a star. You can tell the children who want fame badly enough and Mel was one of those kids. Some peopel perform when they have to, but Mel loved being up there and to have an audience. mr Robbins taught Mel how to write pop songs during a music course, Mel completed 3 songs, wich went towards her final exam. One she passed. At this time, Mel also started having lessons on the drums, and instrument who suited her character perfect - Loud, expressive and full of energy
At sometimes she would drive her family nuts. She coulden't afford a drum set but bought a pair of drum sticks and played a beat on every solid objeckt in the house
Mel was always a headstrong girl, she had a constant desire to be different. This came through in her dress sence. As a teenager, she wore bright colors and had a keen eyefor the latest street trends. She even added small touches to her school uniform to make it look more stylish! Just look at a picture of melanie from her teens.
After leaving Intake High at the age of 16, Mel enrolled for a 2 year course at Leeds College of Music, where she steadily became and accomplished drummer and she also studied the Northern School of Contemperory Dance. A party animal, mel loved the night club scene of Leeds and would move from one club to another. She sanced through the whole night. At one stage she used to earn money by dancing in a bikini on a podium for £3 an hour at the YEL club.
She was certinly a striking 17 year old and it helped her win the Miss Leeds Weekly News beauty contest that her mum signed her up on. Look at the picture bellow.
It was during a night at town that Mel met one of her first serious boyfriends, Steve Mulrain, who was an apprentice footballer with Leeds United. He had fancied Melanie the moment he saw her in the Gallery Nightclub. They only met fleetingly that night, but he couldn't get her out of his mind, so he kep't comming back to the club over the next 2 months untill he saw her again, he wasted no time asking her out. The coupel hitt of immediatly. it was the beginning of a passionate fling. they also spent most nights together, but then Mel got a dancing job for the summer season in Blackpool. Steve missed her so much that he travelled there every weekend to stay in a house she was sharing with a group of other dancers. Sadly, Mel finished the relationship when she had to move to London after being accepted for the Starlight Express trainee roller skating school.
During her time in London she went to many fruitless auditions and started to realise just how tough it was to male living as a dancer. She was becomming dis illusioned with that world when her mum suggested she could try out as a singer instead. She started having lessons cause she loved the idea. While being down in London, she bumped into Melanie Chisholm many times at auditions and they became good friends. The girls had lots in common and talked of those childhood dreams of starring musicials which had faded into dissapointment and frustrations.
The two Melanies had made quite a different journy from the north, but they had ende up at the same destination and soon their lives would be entwined in a common dream.