The Sweetest Spice

Hosted a fundraiser for cancer last week (Sheila Kussner's amazing Hope and Cope group) and had the chance to meet Mel C, a.k.a Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls.  Now given my age and taste in music, the Spice Girls were never in heavy rotation on my charts, but I must say I came away with more admiration for Melanie than I thought I would. 

No attitude, sweet and highly accommodating. A pleasure to deal with, and charmed everyone that she did.  Say what you want about her quintet, but they are still the top selling girl group of all time, and the fact that Melanie's not sitting back but taking a solo act out on the road, grinding it out in small clubs and actually showing up to help raise money at fundraisers says a lot about her character.

So Mel, you may not sell me any CDs, but you are definitely on my Hit List.  Hope your solo career benefits from the good karma you exude.

(P.S.  Big shout-out to Howard Kay, photographer of the stars, for the above snap.)

Comments

[Adam Lawrence]

Andy,

You're not the first to say that Mel C is good people. But don't worry about her career. There are not many small clubs involved: she is already huge in Europe.

Wikipedia says:

"Chisholm holds the record for most United Kingdom number-one singles by a female co-writer (equal with Madonna). She is also third after Lennon and McCartney for the most UK number-one singles by a British co-writer and is the only female to reach the UK number-one as part of a quintet, quartet, duo and as a solo artist."

She has also been nominated for Brit and Echo awards.

More (girl) power to her!

Adam
Spice Fan, somehow

[andy nulman]

Thanks for this, Adam. Guess she didn't need the spare change I tossed her way.