Melanie Appleby

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. She died of pneumonia following treatment for spinal cancer on 18 January 1990. Appleby was first...