Melanie Appleby
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Melanie Appleby | |
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| Born | 11 July 1966 Hackney, London, England |
| Died | 18 January 1990 (aged 23) Westminster, London, England |
Melanie Susan "Mel" Appleby (11 July 1966 – 18 January 1990) was one half of the 1980s English duo Mel and Kim.
Appleby was born to a Jamaican father and a white British mother. She initially worked as a glamour model (she did a photo shoot for Mayfair in 1987) and then joined her sister Kim Appleby to form Mel and Kim, enjoying considerable chart success during the mid and late 1980s.
Death
She died in Westminster, London, of pneumonia following treatment for metastatic paraganglioma on 18 January 1990. She died at the age of 23 and is buried in East Finchley Cemetery.
References
- Mayfair, 22:1, London, 1987
External links
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- 1966 births
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- English people of Jamaican descent
- English female models
- English female singers
- Infectious disease deaths in England
- People from Hackney
- Black British singers
- Burials at East Finchley Cemetery
- Deaths from pneumonia
- 20th-century English singers
- 20th-century British singers