Melanie Appleby

Melanie Appleby
Background information
Born	11 July 1966 Hackney, London, England
Died	18 January 1990 (aged 23) Westminster, London, England
Associated acts	Mel and Kim

Melanie Susan "Mel" Appleby (11 July 1966 – 18 January 1990) was one half of the 1980s English duo Mel and Kim.

Appleby was born to a Jamaican father and a white British mother. She initially worked as a glamour model (she did a photo shoot for Mayfair in 1987) and then joined her sister Kim Appleby to form Mel and Kim, enjoying considerable chart success during the mid and late 1980s.

Death

She died in Westminster, London, of pneumonia following treatment for metastatic paraganglioma on 18 January 1990. She died at the age of 23 and is buried in East Finchley Cemetery.

References

• Mayfair, 22:1, London, 1987

External links

• Melanie Appleby at Find a Grave