How old is the singer samantha fox. Biography and personal life of Samantha Fox

For generations, her family traded vegetables, fruits, textiles and haberdashery at the "market under Big Ben".

That's from her ancestors Samantha Fox and inherited the energy, stroumie, sense of humor and vocal abilities.

According to the British press, Samantha Fox is one of the three most photographed women along with Margaret Thatcher and Princess Diana.

For the first time, Sam appeared on stage at the age of 3, and at the age of 5, the girl already attended Anna Sher's theater school. While studying at school, at the age of 10, Samantha took part in the play “No Way Out” on the BBC channel. A year later, 11-year-old Samantha is taken to the famous theater school Judy Dench Mountainview. However, Sam was more attracted to music and at the age of 14 she put together her first band.

At 15 years old at Lamborghini Records, Samantha Fox makes her first recording. At 16, Sam appears on the cover of the Daily Sun and instantly wins a record-breaking modeling contract. Samantha Fox gets addicted modeling business and musical creativity fades into the background in the life of a girl.

During modeling career Samantha Fox becomes very famous and popular personality- in England, her name becomes a household name in relation to female beauty. The British began to say: "Beautiful, like Samantha Fox."

At the end of her 4-year modeling contract, Samantha Fox turns her full attention to music.

At the age of 20, she releases her first single "Touch Me". The single gets many platinum, gold and silver records, total 24 pieces.

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The album of the same name, as well as 3 subsequent albums of the singer, hit the charts in 15 countries and in the Top Five of many countries, including the USA.

The next single "Do Ya, Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)" quickly hits the Top 10 in Britain.

The song "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" from Samantha Fox's second album takes an honorable 3rd place in the American charts and receives gold, as well as another song "I Wanna Have Some Fun" from the singer's next album.

It must be admitted that music critics(especially British) did not like Samantha Fox very much and called her "Barbie Doll", whose popularity rests only on external data, and not on vocal ones. However, ordinary people like Sam not only for her appearance, but also for her energetic, incendiary compositions, as evidenced by at least the colossal success of her first world tour.

Samantha Fox tours many countries around the world - Canada, USA, Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea and countries South America. In Montreal, the singer generally broke the record for selling tickets to her concert. About 50,000 people meet the singer at the Colombian airport! Sam receives a personal invitation from the Minister of Tourism of Brazil to the carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

With a humanitarian mission, Samantha Fox makes a new tour and visits countries such as Bosnia, Russia, Ukraine, India.

In India, Samantha Fox held three concerts in a row, where a total of 70,000 people gathered, which broke the previous record of Bruce Springsteen.

Samantha Fox took part in the filming of three films:

"It's Been Real" based on the novel by Steve Varnom.

"The Match" - along with Pierce Brosnan and other movie stars.

“Rock Dancer” is an Indian and, as always, a musical film, for which Samantha Fox went to Bollywood, the Indian analogue of Hollywood, to shoot.

Samantha Fox is currently working on a new album called "Angel with an Attitude" due out this year..

She recently released documentary about my world tour. Among other things, Sam is writing his autobiography, which is already tipped to the laurels of the Bestseller. The book is full of humor, charm, but sad places come across in it. In her autobiography, Samantha Fox will try to refute many rumors and myths about herself.

Samantha Karen Fox - bright girl with an eccentric personality. This spectacular blonde became popular in the 80s of the XX century. Lush forms made young Samantha the most photographed girl in Britain at the time. She received the status of a sex bomb, recorded several music albums, starred in films, and at the beginning of the 2000s she confessed her non-traditional sexual orientation.

In the spring of 2018, Samantha turned 52 years old, but this does not prevent the woman from looking young, continuing to wear ultra-deep necklines and bright makeup. But first things first.

The future model was born on April 15, 1966 in London, in a family of ordinary workers. Her mother spent days selling things at the local market. The woman was so tired of this craft that she decided at all costs to protect little Samantha from such a fate. So the three-year-old girl got into the school named after Sir Thomas More.

With mom

The talent of the artist was discovered in the baby, and already at the age of 5 she began to study professionally and participated in theatrical productions. The young artist dreamed of fame as a musician, but she managed to make her dream come true only at the age of 14. Then she created her own rock band, where she became the main vocalist. At 15, she had already released her first record, however, she was not in demand.

Samantha's mother can be safely called the arbiter of her fate. After all, it was she who in 1983 photographed her daughter and sent the pictures to a photo contest in a magazine, thereby revealing the model nature of her daughter.

Parents allowed 16-year-old Samantha to pose topless, and she went to conquer the glossy world. And, I must say, she succeeded - a beauty with natural magnificent breasts quickly became a sex symbol.

From 1984 to 1986, Samantha was actively filmed for men's magazines and British newspapers. She was accepted as one of her favorites by the British popular newspaper The Sun, for which she was often filmed for a spread. It did young model recognizable throughout the country and even in the world.

One of the latest nude photo shoots

Winning the love of men and the envy of women, the girl often posed topless. This raised her popularity even higher. After all, breast augmentation was not yet practiced in those years, and a beauty with such a bust aroused genuine interest. Posters of a semi-nude model could be seen almost everywhere. Deciding to secure her most lucrative body part, Samantha insured her breasts.

Wanting to get even more fame and fulfill her childhood dream, Samantha moves into the musical field. From 1985 to 1991 she released 4 solo albums. Her first songs immediately became hits. Despite the fact that critics considered the girl to be another arrogant Barbie doll that got onto the music scene thanks to its forms, the public accepted her songs well.

Samantha Fox with Freddie Mercury

The successful model did not stop at the conquest of the musical Olympus. She tried to act in films, and although there were few offers from directors, she managed to appear in several films of different genres. So, she starred in the Bollywood musical Rock Dancer, the sports comedy Match, the crime thriller 7 Cases, and the horror film Shark Tornado 5: Global Swarming.

"Rock Dancer"

"7 cases"

Shark Tornado 5: Global Swarming

Personal life

For a long time- From 1986 to 1994 - Samantha Fox met with Peter Forster from Australia, whom she called "the love of my life."

The lovers twice planned the wedding, but the event never happened. Possible cause became tragic death them adopted son who was poisoned by alcohol.

In the late 90s, the girl acted as a jury member at a beauty contest among lesbians, after which rumors spread about the model's bisexuality. She was suspected of having a sexual relationship with her manager.

But Samantha Fox openly declared her love for a woman only in 2003. She admitted that she was dating her manager and best friend Myra Stratton.

She explained her confession as follows:

“I've slept with other women before, but I've never been in love with them before - until Myra Stratton. People say I'm a lesbian. I don't know who I am. All I know is that I love Myra. I love her very much and want to spend the rest of my life with her."

The couple often appeared together at social events, the girls looked happy and incredibly in love with each other.

But happiness was fleeting. In 2015, Samantha Fox's partner passed away from cancer after battling for 2 years. The girls lived together for 16 years, and Samantha was heartbroken. Anonymous sources said:

“Sam is absolutely devastated. She adored Myra, and with her departure, a huge hole was formed in her life. Myra was not only Sam's manager, but also her best friend and lover. It's a huge loss for her."

In 2016, Samantha started a new relationship with Linda and they are happy.

Now Samantha continues to perform with her team in all countries of the world, and also cooks new material. Now Samantha Fox is finishing work on her 10th album.

In 2017, the singer visited Russia, her performance was a resounding success.

Concert in Moscow

Concerts gathered a full house, which confirms the unfading popularity of the singer.

In this video, watch the performance of Samantha Fox in Russia:

The video of the performance in St. Petersburg received more than 4.5 million views, and the video with the cover version of the song "Call Me", which Samantha Fox sang with Sabrina Salerno, was viewed 2.5 million times.

Performance in St. Petersburg

Duet with Sabrina Salerno

She released her autobiography Forever.

Concert in Riga (2018)

Samantha (left) with her mother

AT exclusive interview the legendary singer talked about the ruthless Internet, the missing skirt and the Russian passport

In an exclusive interview, the legendary singer spoke of the ruthless internet, missing skirt and Russian passport.

About 20-30 years ago, posters depicting the then very young Samantha Fox could be run into anywhere in our country - in a trolleybus, in a grocery store, in a teenager's room, and even in strict official institutions. These posters were worth their weight in gold and pleased the male eye with the splendor of the forms of the British blonde. Not all of those who admired these forms were fans of the vocal talents of the sexy Englishwoman. However, these talents also had an impressive size, otherwise Samantha would not have become a world-class pop star. Actually, she remains her, continuing to perform successfully around the world, including in Russia. At the recent XIV in Moscow, Miss Fox received the right to open the show and did it more than spectacularly. The singer impressed the audience with an extremely revealing outfit, flashing not only with her signature ultra-deep neckline, but also with the complete absence of some details of the toilet. But the artist was not at all shy about this - neither on stage, nor in the dressing room, standing in front of the TV program journalist, in fact, in one jacket.

"I miss the millions of CDs sold"

— Samantha, I'm sorry, but it looks like you've lost your skirt somewhere...

- Truth? Yes exactly! (Laughs) Where is she? I must have forgotten it on the plane! Or was it stolen? Or maybe she fell before going on stage? You know, it's all because of the nerves! Oh god, how nervous I was! Especially when the countdown started before the start of the show – 10, 9, 8…! I'm like, "Ah-ah!" And then she somehow calmed down, and soon started up and, it seems, even showed the audience her ass (laughs). She showed me, didn't she? All in all, the show was excellent! And there are a lot of young people in the hall! They love retro music - apparently, their parents taught them to listen to it.

- It's not only about parents, but also about fashion: now young people are obsessed with the 80s - with music, hairstyles, clothes ...

- No wonder! If we talk about pop music, the 80s were the best period in its history. The songs were very melodic, each of them, including the video clips, was full history. In the 90s, the time for rave came, the lyrics became bad, sometimes there were no words at all. Everyone wanted only one thing - dance, dance, come on, DJ, come on!

- Do you miss those days?

- I think no. Including because I participate in huge number nostalgic shows all over the world, that is, it seems like I constantly return to those days. What I miss for sure is the music business, which has changed a lot since the advent of the internet. There are fewer and fewer record companies, people put their music on the Web for free. Now it is impossible to sell millions of records, as they did 30 years ago, so in order to earn money, we are forced to constantly tour.

- Hard?

- Not at all, on the contrary! I just like to go to concerts, but in the studio I'm always bored. The sound engineer commands: "One more time, one more time!" And so it goes on all day long! But I need an audience, the reaction of the public!

"YouTube doesn't forgive mistakes"

What is the first thing you remember when you think about the 80s?

- First of all, I was younger and everything was cheaper (smiles). Yes, everything was different. Technologically, the world was completely different - now we have computers, YouTube. By the way, YouTube is very disciplined - it does not forgive mistakes, any of your oversights will be immediately made public. Today, at the beginning of the show, I went down the stairs to the stage and thought only of one thing: just don’t fall off the stairs in front of all these thousands of people!

— Don't worry, these people love you, you've been coming to Russia for several years. By the way, have you thought about getting a Russian passport?

Oh, interesting idea! It would be nice! Maybe I will! What, is that possible?

- Of course, many Western stars have already acquired passports -, ...

- Wow! And you can not help me in this matter?

- I can only write about your desire, and some boss will read and help.

- Great! Mom, can you imagine - a Russian passport! (Samantha turns to an elderly woman, modestly crouching in the corner of the dressing room. - Ed.) By the way, meet my mother, Carol!

- Very nice! Surely proud of the success of Samantha?

- I am proud, and not only of her achievements, but also of the way she behaves at the same time. She is very appropriate and simple girl…

Also very sexy...

But I never tried to do anything about it! Samantha seizes the initiative. - For me it natural state. I guess you were either born sexy or you weren't. You can't learn it!

And what is the secret of your natural beauty?

— healthy eating, sports ... Although, to be honest, I don’t know! Just me happy girl. Because my mom is like that. Here, probably, is the answer - the secret is in good genes! My grandmother lived to be 95 and beyond last days hers was incredibly beautiful. Like my mom, who is already over seventy, and look how she looks!

You know, when we go somewhere together, no one believes that we are mother and daughter. Everyone asks: “Are you sisters? Girlfriends?" I remember once in a restaurant a man started making eyes at her. I’ll bark at him: “What do you allow yourself? This, by the way, is my mother!” You see, you have to drive away unceremonious suitors from her (laughs). This is my task - I am its main defender.

Carol, what is your daughter's favorite song?

- Well, I won’t be original - Touch Me (“Touch me”). It all started with her, this is her first big hit. I also like cover versions of other people's songs that Sam records in recent times like Madonna's La Isla Bonita, Blondie's Call Me or Donna Summer's Hot Stuff.

“And everyone says my versions are better than the original!” Samantha breaks into the conversation. — I myself love my 1988 album very much.

I Wanna Have Some Fun ("I want to have some fun"). Remember how it starts? (Sings.) Hello, it's me again (“Hello, it's me again”) ... It became a big hit, especially in the USA. It was almost the first pop album with elements of trendy then house, we did it with one of the founders of this trend, a DJ from Chicago. Very stylish disc.

“And then — oops! - I got pregnant

— I raised Samantha on my own. best music, she listened to Pat Benatar, Stevie Nicks, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, continues her story about Carol's daughter. - At the concerts of Diana Ross, we generally went to work. I love her - the fact is that I was once a fairly famous dancer, worked in the 60s on TV and performed on television music shows with Diana. Also with the Beatles, Rolling Stones”,“ Animals ”and many other legends ...

- Wow! So which of you two is the real star!

- Yes, my career was really going well, but then - oops! - I got pregnant. She gave birth to Sam and gave her daughter a place on the stage. Became her mentor, tried to help with advice.

— Samantha, what was the most important advice from mothers?

“Stay normal, keep in touch with your family, don’t get arrogant!” Mom always said that in no case should I act like a celebrity, like a pop diva, that I should remember what family I am from. And our family is simple, by no means rich, in fact, I am a representative of the working class. And I still feel like I belong to him.

Have you always strictly followed this advice?

- Unfortunately no. But my mother always stops my attempts to play a big and glamorous star in time. Tells me: "Bad, bad girl!" (Mother and daughter laugh together.) She very skillfully lowers me from heaven to earth. And it is right. I once wrote a song called What You See Is What You Get. Here you see me now, and I really am like that, I'm not trying to play, pretend. Everything in me is natural, natural. By the way, this (the artist intercepts the gaze of the TV program correspondent directed at her neckline) is also natural!

Private bussiness

Samantha Karen Fox was born on April 15, 1966 in London (UK). When Samantha turned 16, her mother, dancer Carol Ann Wilken, submitted pictures of her daughter to The Sunday People's Girl of the Year photo contest. Sam took 2nd place. The tabloid The Sun became interested in the buxom beauty, offering her to become the so-called Girl from the 3rd page (topless women's photos are published on the 3rd page of the newspaper). As a result, Fox became the most recognizable "third-strip" beauty in the history of the publication, and in 1986 began musical career. Samantha's discs were sold in millions of copies and took places in the top 5 charts in England and the USA. Fox received the prestigious Brit Award in 1988. Samantha does not hide her bisexuality. Among her lovers were the frontman Kiss bands Paul Stanley and Girlschool guitarist Chris Bonacci. For a long time, Sam was in a relationship with her manager Myra Stratton, who passed away this summer at the age of 60.

Samantha Fox's Top 5 Hits:

● Touch Me (I Want Your Body) (1986)

● Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now (1987)

● Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) (1988)

● I Only Wanna Be With You (1988)

● I Wanna Have Some Fun (1989)

Samantha Fox: the songs of this famous performer amaze with their emancipation and frankness, combined with the singer's excellent looks, they made her one of the most desirable and sexy pop singers of the eighties. Samantha Fox was born in April 1966 in London, her parents were market traders. In addition to Samantha, the family had a younger daughter, Vanessa, in addition, the girl has a half-sister, Frederica, who was born from his father when he married for the second time.

At the age of five, the girl began to go to school acting skills in the city of Islington. Participating in the school named after Thomas More, Samantha actively participated in various theatrical productions. From the age of eleven, the girl studied at the Judi Dench Theater, and at the age of fourteen she became the vocalist of a group that she created herself.

In early 1983, Samantha's photographs were published in an aspiring modeling competition, then the girl was invited to audition for the 3rd page of the popular newspaper The Sun in Britain. The parents gave their consent for their daughter to pose topless, after which her photos were seen by the readers of the magazine. Until 1986, Fox regularly starred for all kinds of men's magazines and British newspapers.

In 1986, Samantha Fox's debut single "Touch Me" was released, which became popular in Britain, Canada and the United States. In the same year, the singer and model released her first album, which was called "Sam's Collection". The following year, the second album, The Megamix Album, saw the light of day, and a year later, the third album, I Wanna Have Some Fun, was released. released by Samantha Fox. The clips of this performer reached high positions in the British, US, Canadian and Australian charts. After a short break that lasted three years, the singer released a fourth album, called "Just One Night", which was a reworking of the third album, it used elements of hip-hop and pop rock.

The creative ups and downs of pop singer Samantha Fox.

Singer Samantha Fox In order to regain her popularity, in 1995 she took part in the Song for Europe competition, which was the qualifying competition for the Eurovision Song Contest. As the vocalist of the Sox group, she performed the song "Go for the Heart", but she only took fourth place in the voting. In 1996, the year the girl starred for Playboy magazine (October issue), this erotic photo session was the last for Samantha. In 1997, the singer released another album called 21st Century Fox, in which the songs were performed in Hi-NRG and Eurodance styles. In November 2005, Samantha Fox's last album, Angel with an Attitude, was released.

In September 2007, the singer made a tour of Australia, the following year she appeared at a concert of the stars of the eighties. In the same year, she was invited to participate in the Eastenders show, but Samantha refused, because this project she was not interested. In 2012, all of Fox's music albums were re-released on two CDs.

Personal life of Samantha Fox.

The singer had an affair with Peter Forster twice, he was the love of her life, as Samantha Fox herself said. Wikipedia tells that the couple adopted a boy named Simon, but he died after drinking a bottle of alcohol by mistake. There were rumors that the lovers would get married, but this never came true. In 1999, fans' doubts about the singer's sexual orientation began to intensify, as she became a judge in a beauty contest in which only lesbians participated.

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Childhood and youth

Samantha Karen Fox was born on April 15, 1966 and grew up in a working-class area of ​​London. Her parents traded in the market, but dreamed of the success of their daughters. Mother Sam (as the family abbreviated her daughter's name) played music in her youth, but left her career for the sake of the family. Samantha's father, Patrick John Fox, divorced Carol Ann Fox (nee Wilken), leaving ex-wife both girls younger sister Samantha's name is Vanessa. In the second marriage, another little Fox was born - Frederica, but the eldest got the talents.

Singer Samantha Fox

Already at the age of three, Samantha entered the stage, and at the age of five, training in the craft of an actress began at Anna Sher's school. At the age of ten, he made his television debut in a BBC production. In addition to lessons and participation in the performances of the Sir Thomas More School, the girl studied at the Judi Dench Theater School from the age of eleven. At fourteen, the future star headed the youth musical group and started to sing. In 1981, the group recorded their first disc.

Photographs of seventeen-year-old Samantha won the 1983 Face and Form 1983 novice modeling competition. After that, the girl was invited to appear for the British tabloid The Sun, on the third page of which photos of young women with bare breasts are traditionally placed. Since the mission of the Fox family was to break out of poverty and obscurity at almost any cost, a topless photo of Samantha graced the third page of the newspaper.

In the eighties of the twentieth century, the beauty industry was not yet able to give the female breast any size and shape with the help of silicone. natural sizes the breasts of a young British woman amazed the imagination of men. Several close-ups of naked Samantha Fox were enough to decorate the rooms of teenagers far outside the UK with posters. Bust natural blonde was insured for 250 thousand pounds.

Music

Having earned the title of sex symbol of the era, Samantha Fox returned to music. The very first single - Touch Me ("Touch Me") - rapidly soared to the top of the ratings in England and the USA. Three albums in three years, three hits is a success. The pop star's tour was not limited to English-speaking countries. The concerts of the young singer were successfully held in Eastern Europe and young states of the CIS.

Three years after the resounding success, in 1991, the album Just One Night was released. Early compositions were processed in the style of pop-rock, and it became more fun to dance to them. A typical example of creativity of that time are the hits Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now ("No one will stop me now") and I Only Wanna Be With You ("I just want to be with you").

At first, Samantha's albums were promoted by her father, Patrick Fox, but in 1991 they broke off cooperation with a scandal. The daughter suspected her father of cheating and stealing a million pounds from her account and even sued part of this amount. Fox Sr. died in 2000, and during these ten years they did not reconcile.

In 1995, Samantha and the group Sox participated in the qualifying competition for Eurovision. The song Go for the Heart took only fourth place in the audience vote, and it became clear to Samantha that she needed to remind the fans of herself. The model returned to the third page of The Sun, congratulating the newspaper on its quarter-century anniversary. To the delight of readers, daily photos of the pop diva's nude bust graced the newspaper every day of the week. Last photo cycle took a full turn.

In October 1996, portraits of the artist delighted Playboy subscribers. Since then, new photos of naked Samantha Fox have not appeared in the media. The money earned was enough to plunge into musical creativity again. Albums with dance compositions are released in the late nineties and early zero. The last studio work of this format was the album Angel with an Attitude.

Personal life

Samantha's bisexuality has made her personal life complicated and confusing. At 20, she believed that she would live her whole life with the Australian Peter Forster. The couple was going to get married twice - in 1987 and 1994, but the relationship broke up. Perhaps the cause of the breakup was a tragedy. Peter and Samantha lost their adopted son, Simon, who got alcohol poisoning by mixing bottles.

In 1999, Fox was a member of the jury of a lesbian beauty pageant and was rumored to be in a close relationship with the manager, Australian Criss Bonacci. But only in 2003, Samantha decided to openly confess her love for a woman. True love The singer was Mira Stratton, in a civil union with which Samantha lived for sixteen years. In 2009, women even planned to legalize marriage, but never got around to it.

And in the summer of 2015, Stratton passed away after two years of fighting cancer. Sam lost her loved one in life: Mira was the artist's best friend and personal manager. In difficult moments, Samantha, as always, was supported by her mother. The hole in the singer's heart gradually closed, and a year later there were reports in the newspapers that she was again in love with a woman, but the name of the chosen one remained a mystery.

Contrary to the stereotypical opinion about the moral character of a believer, Samantha was and remains a Christian. Believing that God endowed her beautiful body then, in order to give people joy, the model does not see anything immoral in her work. She does not act in porn and does not distribute pornography, and in her prayers she asks God to let her go her own way.

Samantha Fox now

People who grew up in the USSR at the end of the twentieth century sometimes feel that the symbols of their youth are in the past. The country in which they were born has long since disappeared from the map of the world. Rock bands, whose songs were semi-legally copied from friends on old cassettes, have long since disbanded. And Samantha Fox, whose name is on a par with the names, is actively working, continues to record covers of popular songs and even gives concerts.

The pop star toured Russia as part of the Avtoradio. Disco 80s" at the end of 2017. Concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg gathered full houses. Probably, the current popularity of the singer is largely due to nostalgia and the desire to "live" to see the sex symbol of her youth. But who said it's bad?

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