Alesha Anjanette Dixon is an English singer, rapper, songwriter, and dancer. She rose to fame in 2001 as a member of the all-female R&Bgaragerap trio Mis-Teeq. In 2007, Dixon won Strictly Come Dancing. Her television exposure led to a successful comeback, which included her signing to Asylum Records. Her fourth studio album, Do It for Love, was released in 2015.
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Alesha Anjanette Dixon is an English singer, rapper, songwriter, and dancer. She rose to fame in 2001 as a member of the all-female R&Bgaragerap trio Mis-Teeq. The group disbanded in 2005 and Dixon pursued a music career as a solo artist. In 2007, Dixon won Strictly Come Dancing. Her television exposure led to a successful comeback, which included her signing to Asylum Records, an offshoot of Warner Music Group. Her fourth studio album, Do It for Love, was released in 2015. As a television presenter, Dixon has hosted Your Face Sounds Familiar, Text Santa, Dance Dance Dance, The Greatest Dancer, and Comic Relief. In 2020, Dixon will join the judging panel of America’s Got Talent: The Champions. She has also starred in a documentary, Don’t Hit My Mum, regarding the issue of domestic abuse from a child’s perspective, and remarked upon her own childhood. Dixon’s parents separated when she was four and her father moved away, resulting in her later describing her family life as ‘very dysfunctional’. Between the ages of eight and ten, Dixon witnessed her mother suffer domestic violence from her partner; she only spoke publicly about the issue 21 years later, in 2010. She was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, to a Jamaican father, Melvin, and English mother, Beverly Harris. Her first job was at Ladbrokes, although she aspired to become a PE teacher after leaving college. After completing a diploma course in sports studies, she had planned to take up a place at Loughborough University, but at dance classes in London she was approached by a talent scout from a production company.
In 1999, she met Sabrina Washington as they both joined a dance school in Fulham, south west London. Together, they decided to form a group when Dixon and Washington, the two co-founders, spotted Su-Elise Nash, a girl auditioning for another group, and together they formed a trio. They were soon signed to Telstar Records with the addition of a new member, Zena McNally, and became the popular UK garageR&B girl group, Mis- teeq, in 2001. In October 2000, Dixon appeared on the singleRumours by Damage, which featured The genre from the UK on the UK Singles Chart, at 22 on the charts. In January 2001, the group released their first single, Why, which remained commercially unnoticed until a remix was produced and the track charted at number 8 in April of that year. Two separate versions of the song were filmed for separate music videos, which were filmed in separate locations for different versions of the song, including the accompanying music videos for the music video for ‘Rumours’ and ‘Breathe Slow’ In January 2012, shortly after completing the ninth series and her third year as a judge on StrictLY Come Dancing, Dixon quit to become the judge on Britain’s Got Talent.
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