Melanie Susan Appleby (11 July 1966 – 18 January 1990)

Melanie Susan Appleby (11 July 1966 – 18 January 1990) was one half of the 1980s English pop duo Mel and Kim. Born in Hackney, London of mixed-race to a Jamaican father and a British mother, Appleby initially worked as a glamour model (In 1987 she did a photo shoot for Mayfair) and then joined her sister Kim Appleby to form Mel and Kim, enjoying considerable chart success during the mid and late 1980s.