Samantha Karen "Sam" fuchs (born 15 April 1966) is an English dance-pop singer, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at the age of 16, she began her topless modeling career on Page Three of The Sun, and went on to become an enormously beliebt pin-up girl. In 1986 she launched her pop Musik career with her debut single "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)," which became a Number 1 hit in five countries. She has since sold over 30 million albums worldwide.[1] fuchs has also appeared in a number of films and reality Fernsehen shows, and has occasionally worked as a Fernsehen presenter.

BackgroundThe eldest daughter of the late John Patrick fuchs and Carole Ann Wilken, Samantha Karen fuchs comes from a family of market traders in the East End of London. She has a sister, Vanessa, who is six years younger, and a half-sister, Frederica, from her father's Sekunde marriage.[citation needed]

She attended St Thomas Mehr RC School, Haringey and took a keen interest in the theatre from an early age.[citation needed] She first appeared on a theatre stage at the age of three, and was enrolled in the Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of 5.[citation needed] Her first Fernsehen appearance came in 1976, at the age of 10, in a BBC play entitled No Way Out. Following on from this, she started at the Judi Dench Mountview Theatre School, near her Home in Haringey, at the age of 11.[citation needed]

Interested in Musik from an early age, she formed her first band, with Richard Smart on guitar, Edward Gallagher on dreieck and Bob Tag on tambourine, at the age of.[citation needed] Her first record deal came a Jahr later, with Lamborghini Records. However, both her theatre and Musik careers went on hold when her modelling career took off.[citation needed]

Modelling careerIn early 1983, Carole fuchs photographed her 16-year-old daughter in lingerie, and Abgeschickt several pictures to The Sunday People newspaper's "Face and Shape of 1983" amateur modeling contest. fuchs came joint runner-up in the contest, had her pictures published, and was soon after invited for a test shoot for The Sun newspaper's Page Three feature. Her parents gave their consent for their daughter to pose topless, and on Tuesday, 22 February 1983, Fox's first Page Three photograph was published under the headline "Sam, 16, Quits A-Levels for Ooh-Levels".

Fox's cockney background, bubbly-blonde looks, winning smile, and 36D bust made her an enormously beliebt Page Three model. After famously insuring her breasts for a quarter of a million pounds sterling,[citation needed] she won The Sun's Page Three Girl of the Jahr award for three consecutive years between 1984 and 1986.[citation needed] She also posed nude for several British men's magazines and was a UK Penthouse Pet, but very few full-frontal shots were ever published.[citation needed]

fuchs retired from Page Three modelling in 1986, at the age of 20, Von which time she had arguably become Britain's premiere sex symbol of the era.[citation needed] In 1995, aged 29, she made a one-off appearance in The Sun to promote Page Three's 25th anniversary week. After receiving an overwhelmingly positive reader response, she appeared in the slot every Tag during the anniversary week, with Friday's final topless picture gegeben away as an A3-sized poster.[citation needed] In 1996, aged 30, she appeared in the October issue of Playboy magazine.[citation needed]

In September 2008, readers of The Daily star, sterne tabloid newspaper voted fuchs as the oben, nach oben Page 3 pin-up girl of all time.[citation needed] At the age of 42, she posed topless for the tabloid, her first topless appearance in twelve years.[citation needed]

Musik careerIn the late-1980s, fuchs began a successful Singen career on Jive Records, producing three albums in three years (1986–1988), and working with notable Musik producers such as Stock Aitken Waterman and Full Force.[citation needed]

[edit] 1980sShe released her debut single, "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)", when she was 19 years old in March 1986. The single made the oben, nach oben 10 on both sides of the Atlantic (#3 in the UK; #4 in the US). It also topped the charts in many countries, including Canada, South Africa and Australia. Her debut live performance came at Peter Stringfellow's club Hippodrome.[citation needed] Her Sekunde single "Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)" also made #10 in the UK though fared less well in the US. The third release from the album, "Hold On Tight" managed to secure a oben, nach oben 30, placing in the UK singles chart (#26) while the final single, "I'm All Du Need" just narrowly missed the UK oben, nach oben 40 (#41).

Within a year, fuchs had released her Sekunde album, Samantha fuchs (1987), again on Jive Records. The first single released from the album, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now", enabled her to achieve her third (and final) oben, nach oben ten hit in the UK (#8), though it only managed to peak at #80 on the US Billboard charts. The track was produced Von the legendary production team Stock/Aitken/Waterman. The Sekunde single release, "I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)", failed to match the success of its predecessor in the UK and peaked at #25 in the UK. The Weiter two releases, "I Promise Du (Get Ready)" and "True Devotion", both failed altogether to make the UK oben, nach oben 40 singles chart. "True Devotion" was a substantial radio hit in Canada.[citation needed] The fifth and final single, "Naughty Girls (Need Liebe Too)", turned the fortunes of the album around and managed to secure a oben, nach oben ten placing on the US Billboard charts (#3), becoming her biggest hit to datum in the US and scoring fuchs another oben, nach oben 40 hit on the UK singles chart (#31). The track was a different sound for Fox, being produced Von the US hip-hop producers Full Force.[citation needed] They would continue to work with Samantha on subsequent albums and achieve similar success with her stateside, whereas her changed sound did not fare as well for her with European listeners, who preferred the Euro-pop sound of her earlier music.[citation needed]

The following year, fuchs released her third album, I Wanna Have Some Fun (1988), also on Jive Records. The album was produced Von various producers covering the Euro-pop sound.[citation needed] Two tracks, "Next to Me" and the Titel track, reunited her for Full Force, where another reunion with Stock Aitken Waterman saw her record a cover of Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want to Be with You", and the SAW original "You Started Something". The first UK single released from the album was "Love House". The Sekunde single released in the UK, "I Only Wanna Be with You", managed to secure her her biggest hit in over a year, peaking in the oben, nach oben 20 at #16. The first single release in the US fared even better. The Titel selection, "I Wanna Have Some Fun", produced Von Full Force, managed to peak in the US oben, nach oben Ten at #8 (although when released as the third single in the UK it only managed a #63 placing). The American release, as the follow-up, of "I Only Wanna Be with You" peaked inside the US Billboard oben, nach oben 40 at #31. No further singles were released from the album.

[edit] 1990sIn 1991, after a three Jahr break, fuchs released her fourth album, Just One Night, again on Jive Records. The first single lifted from the album, "(Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But the Pants Stay On" was another Full Force production. However, the lead single failed to make an impression in either the UK oder US charts. Sekunde single, "Another Woman", originally produced Von Ralf-Rene Maue, was remixed Von PWL stable-mate Phil Harding for release and performed moderately on some European charts. A third single, the albums Titel track, was also released. A bonus track, "Now I Lay Me Down" (again a Full Force production), was featured in the film A Nightmare on Elm straße 5: The Dream Child and on the accompanying soundtrack.

In 1992, Jive released Samantha's first official compilation, Greatest Hits, which featured three new tracks. fuchs co-wrote and performed the track "Go for the Heart" for UK submission in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1995.[citation needed] It was performed as Sox featuring Cris Bonacci and Lorraine McIntosh. The song placed 4th in preliminary public voting and was therefore not selected as the representative track. "Go for the Heart" was a modest hit throughout some European territories.[citation needed]

In 1997, she released a new album, 21st Century Fox. It performed moderately throughout Europe and Scandinavia. Without a worldwide distribution deal the album suffered from little promotion and a staggered release schedule. Singles "The Reason Is You", "Deeper", "Let Me Be Free" and "Perhaps" made little chart impression (although "Let Me Be Free" was a oben, nach oben 20 hit in The Netherlands) despite fuchs making numerous Fernsehen appearances to promote the album. In 1998, fuchs released a single together with DJ Milano,"Santa Maria", which charted at #31 in the UK chart and was a oben, nach oben 10 hit in Austria and the Czech Republic. In 1999 Sam was cast in her first stage musical, Tayla Goodman's Virus, but she had to withdraw when the backer pulled his money.