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 their daughters' success. Sam’s mother (as the family abbreviated her daughter’s name) played music in her youth, but left her career for the sake of her family. Father Patrick John Fox divorced Carol Ann Fox, leaving both girls to his ex-wife (Samantha's younger sister is named Vanessa). In her second marriage, another little Fox was born - Frederica, but the eldest got the talent.
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Samantha Fox and her mother
Already at the age of three, Samantha appeared on stage, and at the age of five she began studying the craft of an actress at the Anna Sher school. At the age of 10, he made his television debut in a BBC production. In addition to lessons and participation in performances at the Sir Thomas More School, the girl studied at the Judi Dench Theater School from the age of 11. At 14, the future star led a youth music group and began singing.
Samantha Fox born April 15 1966
years in London in the family of market traders Patrick John Fox and Carol Ann Fox. In addition to her, the youngest daughter, Vanessa, grew up in the family. Samantha also has a half-sister, Frederica, from her father's second marriage.
At the age of five she began studying at the Anna Scher acting school in Islington.
Samantha studied at the Sir Thomas More School, where she took an active part in theatrical productions.
Fox began doing theater at the age of 11
Judi Dench in Crouch End.
At the age of 14, Samantha Fox became the vocalist of her own band.
At first 1983
Carol Fox took several photographs of her daughter and sent them to The People newspaper, which was holding a competition for aspiring models “Face and Shape of
1983
”.
The jury liked the photographs and were published. Soon Samantha was invited to audition for Page Three of the famous British newspaper The Sun. Her parents allowed her to pose topless, and on Tuesday, February 22, 1983
, her photographs were published.
WITH 1984
Until
1986
, Samantha regularly posed for British newspapers and men's magazines.
In the same 1986
In the same year, Fox released her debut single entitled “Touch Me”, which was a great success not only in Britain, but also in the USA and Canada.
In the same 1986
Samantha released her debut album entitled “Sam's Collection”.
IN 1987
1988
, followed by the third album, “I Wanna Have Some Fun,” in 1988.
Her hits "Naughty Girls" (1987
) and "I Wanna Have Some Fun" (
1988
) reached high places in the charts in Britain, the USA, Canada and Australia.
After a three-year break (in 1991
year) Samantha released her fourth album, Just One Night. It is a reworking of the previous one using hip-hop elements, as well as pop-rock tracks; enjoyed particular success in Canada.
IN 1995
Samantha tried to regain her former popularity by participating in the Song for Europe competition, the British qualifying competition for the Eurovision Song Contest. She, as the vocalist of the group “Sox”, performed the song “Go for the Heart”, but took only 4th place in the voting.
In the same 1995
year she returned to Page Three of The Sun, but only for its 25th anniversary. After enthusiastic reviews from readers, it appeared in the section every day of the anniversary week, with the last photo, Friday, being framed as an A3 poster.
The publication of her photographs in India brought Samantha such popularity that 1995
year she was invited to the Bollywood film “Rock Dancer”.
Fox also starred in the films It's Been Real ( 1997
) and The Match (
1999
).
IN 1996
This year she starred in the October issue of Playboy magazine. These were her last nude photographs.
IN 1997
year she released a new album 21st Century Fox with songs in Eurodance and Hi-NRG styles.
IN 1998
Samantha Fox teamed up with DJ Milano to produce the club track "Santa Maria", which became a top ten hit in the UK and number one in Austria.
In 2004
, after a noticeable hiatus, she released a remake of "Touch Me" with Swedish artist Gunther. The song was warmly received by fans of club music around the world.
In November 2005
Fox released her latest album, Angel with an Attitude, on which she worked with producer Joe Barucco.
Late August-early September 2007
In 2008, Foxx toured Australia as part of the Countdown Spectacular 2 project, performing the songs "Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)" and Touch Me (I Want Your Body).
24 August 2008
Samantha performed at a concert of 80s stars along with Kim Wilde, Sabrina, Sandra, Modern Talking and others.
IN 2008
In 2009, Fox was invited to take part in the casting of the show Eastenders, but she refused, citing her disinterest.
IN 2010
Samantha, together with the DJ duo 4 Strings, released the track “Forever”.
IN 2012
In 2008, Fox re-released all of her music albums on 2 CDs, which also included unreleased bonus tracks and remixes of all singles.
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Personal life
Samantha's bisexuality has made her love life complicated and confusing. At the age of 20, she believed that she would live her whole life with Australian Peter Forster. The couple planned to get married twice, in 1987 and 1994, but the relationship broke up. The reason for the breakup was tragedy. Peter and Samantha lost their adopted son Simon to alcohol poisoning after mixing up bottles.
Then the press began to discuss her affair with Kiss vocalist Paul Stanley. According to the singer, they met during her tour of America, in New York. Stanley's team was also on tour at that time. When she went on her first date with Paul, she had no idea that it would end in a dizzying romance.
Since both often toured, they were rarely able to see each other, and because of this, the couple’s relationship ended. At first, meetings began to take place less frequently, and then stopped altogether.
Paul Stanley with girlfriend Pop Sensation Samantha Fox
