Sam Fox
Sam’s first stage appearance was
when she was three years old. By the age of five
she was already attending the Anna Scher Theatre School.
She made her first television appearance when she was ten in a BBC
play called No Way Out and at eleven she was accepted by the Judy Dench Mountainview
Theatre School.
However, music was Sam’s first love
and at 14 she formed her first band. When she
was 15 she got her first record deal with Lamborghini Records but when she
was whisked into the glamorous modelling world her music career was put on
hold.
During the four year tenure of her
extremely lucrative modelling contract, Samantha Fox literally became a household
name in the UK and the nation’s darling.
Nonetheless, as soon as her contractual
obligations expired, Sam immediately wanted to focus all her attention on
her music again. At the age of twenty Sam released
her first single Touch Me. Sam made her debut
live appearance as a singer at Peter Stringfellow’s prestigious Hippodrome
in front of an audience composed entirely of DJs from all over Europe.
Touch Me went on to amass a formidable array
of Platinum, Gold and Silver awards. Overall,
twenty four discs honour these sales. The Touch
Me album and three others found Number One national chart positions in no
less than 15 countries and Top Fives in numerous others including the USA.
During this time Sam toured the world,
barely stopping for breath. Indeed, Samantha
Fox made a terrific impact with her live act, selling out halls of up to
30,000 capacity across Canada and America and touring Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore
and Korea. In Montreal she broke the box office
record.
In South America she had huge record
sales and a sell out tour sponsored by Pepsi - 20,000 seat minimum. There were 50,000 people at the airport on her arrival
in Colombia. Sam was invited by the Minister of
Tourism in Brazil to the Rio Carnival. In Ecuador
she took part in a celebrity tennis match to raise funds for hospitals.
In one year alone Sam played to over
a million fans. Another year was spent in New
York, V’Jaying for MTV (presenting pop promo video programmes on Music Television),
acting in a sitcom and recording with top US producers.
As someone with humanitarian interests
she chose to also visit and perform in unusual countries including Bosnia,
Russia, the Ukraine and Siberia. In India Sam
performed to 70,000 people three nights in a row, breaking the record previously
held by Bruce Springsteen.
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‘I have fans in some remote countries
in the world and there are not many artists who will visit these places. Sometimes the hotels have no running water and the
transport is scary but the graciousness and appreciation of the fans is so
overwhelming you have to take it in your stride.’
Perhaps it is this global approach
that accounts for the international composition of Sam’s fan base. With the advent of the internet, the development of
her own official site and links with the many other Sam sites run by long
term loyal fans, the world has become her ‘Cyber Oyster’.
Sam has entered an era where her
intuitive sense of adventure and curiosity has always belonged from the start. Her early desire to travel all around the world and
her fascination with far away places and different cultures was almost ahead
of the times when she began. Now in the year 2004
the world has opened up to her way of thinking and through the internet, global
consciousness is being raised as people come together.