SINGER - SONGWRITER - ACTRESS - MODEL - WORLD FAMOUS ENGLISH PERSONALITY
Music was Sam’s first love and secured her first record deal aged 15, however she was whisked into the glamorous modelling world and her music career was put on hold. During the four year tenure of her extremely lucrative modelling contract, Samantha Fox literally became a household name in the UK overnight and became the nation’s darling. She gave up modelling aged 20 to concentrate on her music and released her first single in 1986, ‘Touch Me’ reached No 3 in the UK and No 4 in the USA. The single went on to amass a formidable array of Platinum, Gold and Silver awards and 24 discs honour these sales. Follow up ‘Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)’ reached No. 10. The ‘Touch Me’ album and three others found Number One national chart positions in no less than 15 countries and Top 5’s in numerous others including the USA. She has sold over 30 million records worldwide.
During the 80’s Sam was the most photographed British star, alongside Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher. Not since the Beatles has a British personality been so well known all over the world, across a complete cross section of age, sex, race and religion. Sam toured the world, barely stopping for breath and made a terrific impact with her live act, selling out halls of up to 30,000 capacities across Canada and America and touring Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea. In Montreal she broke the box office record. In South America she had huge record sales and a sell out tour sponsored by Pepsi - 20,000 seat minimum. In one year alone Sam played to over a million fans. Another year was spent in New York, VJ’ing for MTV (presenting pop promo video programmes on Music Television), acting in a sitcom and recording with top US producers.
As someone with humanitarian interests she chose to also visit and perform in unusual countries including Bosnia, Russia, the Ukraine and Siberia. In India Sam performed to 70,000 people three nights in a row, breaking the record previously held by Bruce Springsteen. It is her global approach that accounts for the international composition of Sam’s fan base. .
Sam has also had parts in three films ‘It’s Been Real’ starring John Altman, The Match starring Pierce Brosnan, Ian Holm (Alien), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly), David Hayman and Isla Blair and Bollywood classic ‘Rock Dancer’ written and directed by V Menon, starring Kamal Sadanah, Ronit Roy, Sharon Prabhakar, Javid Jafri, Anood Kumar and Johnny Lever.
In recent years she has appeared in several TV shows including a great appearance in 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here' and 'Celebrity Come Dine With Me'. Recently she has been researching and writing her autobiography.
She continues to perform sell out shows around the globe with her live band and is still actively recording. The official video of her duet with Sabrina Salerno (a cover of ‘Call Me’) has had over 2½ million hits on YouTube whereas a live performance in Saint-Petersburg has had 4½ million hits on YouTube.
She was also the featured vocalist on the 4 Strings’ release ‘Forever’, which was a huge dance floor hit. She’s currently in the studio finishing off her 10th album with producer Ian Masterson.
She has just shot her latest movie role in British horror movie ‘Seven Cases’ which will be released in 2014.
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
USA
- Three Gold Albums
- Three Top Ten Singles (including two Gold)
- Three Top Twenty Singles
- Number One: Black Charts
- Number One: Dance Charts
- Starred in SitCom with Scott Bio televised nationally and rerun many times
Germany
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Three Gold Albums
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One Silver Album
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Best International Singer Award
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Twice voted winner of Gold Award by Bravo readers and Silver once
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Regular chat show appearances
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Second biggest fan base
Rusia / Eastern Block
Visited Moscow and St Petersburg at least six times a year for shows – always a sell out
Toured Latvia, Ukraine and Estonia (Independence Day performed to crowd of 100,000)
Siberia, first Western female to perform live. Now in Siberian museum.
Japan
Three Gold Albums
Two Number One Singles
Six Top Twenty Singles
Sell out tour
Song featured in Japanese car commercial
Austrailia
Two Gold Albums
One Silver Album
Three Number One Singles
Three Top Ten Singles
Model of the Year 1985 People Magazine
Norway
Four Gold Albums
Four Number One Singles
Best International Female Singer
Acted in SitCom
Belgium
Best International Artist
Seven Top Ten Singles
UK
- Two Gold Albums
- One Silver Album
- One Gold Single
- One Silver Single
Switzerland
Two Gold Albums
Seven Top Ten Singles including several Number Ones
Spain & Portugal
Two Gold Albums
One Silver Album
Lived in Spain for one year
Far East
Toured and sold many records
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Israel
Two Gold Albums
Two sell out tours
Denmark
Three Gold Albums
Six Top Ten Singles
Three Number One Singles
Finland
Three Gold Albums
Three Number One Singles
France
Two Gold Albums
One Silver Single
Five Top Ten Singles
Italy
Best International Artist 1987
Austria
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Best International Singer Award
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1998 – Modelled for Vivienne Westwood – televised for charity
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1998 – Promoted Austrian Grand Prix
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1998 – Approached to sing World Cup Song for Austria and to open the Para Olympics
Canada
Two Double Platinum Albums
One Gold Album
Three Platinum Singles
Three Gold Singles
Toured extensively breaking Box Office records
South America
Huge record sales: sales awards not available from these territories
Sell out tour sponsored by Pepsi: 20,000 in attendance per show
50,000 people at airport on arrival in Colombia
Invited by Minister of Tourism in Brazil to attend the Rio Carnival
Ecuador: Invited to participate in celebrity charity tennis tournament to aid local hospitals
India
Toured Madras, Deli and Bombay playing up to 70,000 seated stadiums. Sold out. Beat Bruce Springsteen’s record held at that time
First Western female to appear in a Bollywood movie – ‘Rock Dancer’
Award: Most Influential Woman, presented by Mother Theresa
Sweden
Three Gold Albums
One Platinum Single
Two Number One Singles
Five Top Ten Singles
South Africa
In huge demand in modelling days through Scope Magazine
Acted in two Soap Operas
Toured twice and sold many albums
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