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| Victoria Beckham | ||
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 Victoria
Beckham in 2001
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| Background information | ||
| Birth name | Victoria Caroline Adams | |
| Also known as | Posh Spice | |
| Born | April 17 | |
| Origin |  |
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| Genre(s) | Pop | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, Fashion designer | |
| Label(s) | Virgin (1996-2002), 19 Entertainment (2003-?), Telstar (2003-2004) | |
| Associated acts |
Spice Girls | |
Victoria Beckham (née Adams),
(born April
17 in
She is also known for being married to British football player David
Beckham. Her career and marriage to David Beckham have made her both
the fifty-second richest woman in Britain
and the six hundred and nineteenth richest person in Britain with
husband David, with an estimated joint wealth of
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Victoria Beckham (then Adams) joined the all-girl band Spice
Girls, first called "Touch," in 1994, together with Geri
Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie
Brown and Melanie Chisholm. The
group's first single, "Wannabe," went to number one in the
UK and the U.S., and would be followed by eight other hugely successful
number one singles from their albums "Spice"
and "Spiceworld." Each member of the
group received a nickname from the media: Victoria became "Posh
Spice,". The group would become one of the most successful acts of the 1990s, selling in
excess of fifty-five million records worldwide.
After the release of their 3rd album, "
In 2007, the Spice Girls confirmed that they have reformed and are due to go on tour. Just a year earlier on February 26, 2006, Victoria Beckham stated in an interview with the Sunday Mirror: "I'm never going to sing again, unless it was a chance to do something with the Spice Girls. I don't really miss the shows we did together. I miss the girls more. I see Geri a lot — I love her, she's amazing. I speak to the others from time to time. I love them too and miss them." Beckham also declared that she and her former Spice colleagues were enjoying their solo careers in various fields. She said: "We're all still doing our own thing."
In August 2000, Victoria released her first solo single: "Out
Of Your Mind", a collaboration with the Garage act the Truesteppers
and Dane
Bowers. The week of release coincided with the release of "
Beckham signed a recording contract with her group label Virgin
Records. Her true debut single as a solo artist, "
Beckham's eponymously titled
The second and final single to be released from the album was "
A 3rd single, "I Wish", was promoted but never materialised. The single version was a remix featuring Robbie Craig, and was performed on TV on Friday Night's All Wright. Many hoped this single would revitalise the album's fortunes, but following the announcement of Beckham's second pregnancy it was shelved, and Beckham was dropped from the label Virgin Records.
Telstar Records signed Victoria in 2002 in a deal made with Simon Fuller's 19 Management. She spent much of 2002 recording a 'pop-influenced' album, but Beckham allegedly shelved it after not being happy with the results. Instead of pop, Beckham wanted to record tracks with a more RnB and hip hop influence, and to accomplish this she began working with urban producer Damon Dash. There were some unsubstantiated rumours regarding both Dash and Beckham at the time. These plans reportedly worried Telstar and Simon Fuller, but they compromised with Beckham, allowing her to release a Dash produced track ("This Groove") along-side one of her earlier pop tracks ("Let Your Head Go") from the shelved album.
The resulting double A-side single "
As another compromise, Telstar allowed Beckham to release some
of her urban tracks on "The Real Beckhams" DVD. This 2003 documentary
was released in January 2004, and bonus material included the videos
for "Let Your Head Go" and "This Groove", as well as 4 previously
unreleased tracks: "Resentment", "That Dude", "Me And You This Time"
and "Valentine" (none of the songs had a writing credit from Beckham).
"Resentment" has since been covered by
Outside of the UK, Damon Dash had plans for Beckham in the United
States, including a potential release of "
With the UK media describing her music career a failure, and combined with a rumored fall out between Dash and Fuller, remaining plans for Victoria's music career were canceled. To try and salvage her music career, Beckham again began work on pop-styled tracks in 2004. It is known that she recorded a track she had written with Cathy Dennis entitled "My Love Is For Real" (not to be confused with the Paula Abdul song of the same name). With the collapse of Telstar Records, the pressure to stay with her family caused by the Rebecca Loos scandal, and the announcement of Beckham's 3rd pregnancy, this song has never been heard, except for a remix by Armand van Helden.
In 2000, Victoria Beckham made a guest appearance on the
catwalk for
In 2004, Beckham designed a fashion line for Rock and Republic called 'VB Rocks,' consisting mainly of jeans for the high end of the market (retailing at approximately $300 in the U.S.). She has also worked on a range of women's clothes including shirts and skirts. The clothing features a logo of a crown with the letters "VB". In September 2006, Beckham ceased working with Rock and Republic in order to launch her own Denim label. The new line of Beckham's jeans collection is called DVB Style.
Beckham was briefly the face of Rocawear, and has for or a number of years produced a range of handbags and jewellery in association with the Japanese store Samantha Thavasa. In July 2006, Victoria Beckham released a line of sunglasses (which she had been seen wearing at the World Cup games). In September 2006, 'Intimately Beckham', a his-and-her fragrance line in association with Coty the world's largest fragrance house was launched. Around the same time Beckham launched her new official website dybstyle.com which follows her fashion work.
In June
2007 Beckham
was a judge at London's
annual
On June 5, 2007, she won two British Glamour Magazine Awards: one for "Woman of the Year" and another for "Entrepreneur of the Year," which celebrated her fashion achievements.
On June 14, 2007 Beckham launched her dVb denim collection in NYC at the high-end Saks Fifth Avenue, along with unveiling her eyewear range in the US for the first time.
Her autobiography, entitled Learning to Fly, (the title was taken from a line in a song from the musical Fame, which Victoria adored as a child). The book was the 3rd best selling non-fiction title of 2001 and the total UK sales stand at more than 500,000 copies.
Beckham is widely believed to have told a Spanish journalist in 2005 that "I've never read a book in my life". Although often used to criticise and ridicule Victoria, this 'quote' was actually a mistranslation from the original Spanish in which the interview was printed - she actually stated she never had time to finish reading a book because she was always running around after her children.
Her second book, a fashion book titled That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything In Between, was published on October 30, 2006. It was co-written by Hadley Freeman, deputy fashion editor of The Guardian and a contributing editor of Vogue and includes photography by Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz and Steven Meisel. On the Sunday Times Book Charts, the book stood at #2.
Over the course of her career, Beckham has shot 5 official reality documentaries.
The first of which, entitled Being Victoria Beckham, focused on Beckham discussing her career as a solo artist, with the release of her first album, also showing her at various photo shoots and recording sessions. The second, The Real Beckhams, focussed on the Beckhams' move to Madrid from London after David was signed to Real Madrid. It also featured Beckham re-launching her solo career and showed her mocking the tabloid stories she reads in the paper every day. This particular special was released on DVD.
The 3rd was called Full Length & Fabulous: The Beckhams' World Cup Party, which followed Victoria and David Beckham organising and making preparations to host a World Cup Party at a marquee in the grounds of their mansion in Hertfordshire, which aimed to raise money for their charity. The documentary also filmed the event itself, where the menu was designed especially by friend and chef Gordon Ramsay and the charity auction was hosted by Graham Norton. The 4th being titled Victoria's Secrets is rare and much sought after by fans, little detail is known about it aside from it being aired only in the U.K.
To document Victoria Beckham's preparations for her family's
move to America, she signed a deal with NBC for six episodes of a half-hour unscripted reality tv
series. The show is called
In July
2007, it was
announced that Beckham was shortly to begin filming an cameo appearance
playing herself in an episode of the second season of
Beckham's parents are Anthony William and Jacqueline Adams.
She has a younger sister, Louise, and a younger brother, Christian. She
attended Jason Theatre School in Hoddesdon. At 17, she started going to the
After many preparations, Victoria and David Beckham moved to Los Angeles where David has been signed to play for the LA Galaxy soccer team. On arrival in America on July 13, 2007, the couple were met by hundreds of paparazzi and media representatives, causing a media frenzy. They are now residing in a $22 million Beverly Hills mansion with 10 security guards. To create publicity for their move to America, the couple were photographed in their underwear for the fashion magazine, W. In an interview for the magazine, Victoria Beckham said that David's alleged affair with Rebecca Loos made their relationship stronger.
| Year | Single | Album | Chart positions | Audio | |||
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| UK | IRE | AUS | SPA | ||||
| 2000 | "Out of Your Mind" (Truesteppers & Dane Bowers Featuring Victoria Beckham) | "Truestepping" (Trusteppers album) | 2 | -- | 27 | 4 | |
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