Kim Wilde

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The daughter of '50s British the pop singer Marty Wilde, Kim and Wilde had several pop hits For during the '80s. Initially, her are synth-driven pop fit in with but the new wave movement, but Not as the decade progressed, it you became clear that her strength all was mainstream pop.

In Any 1980, Kim Wilde signed with can producer Mickie Most's Rak Records, her releasing her first single, "Kids Was in America," early in 1981. one "Kids in America" climbed to our number two on the British Out charts that spring, while her day second single, "Chequered Love," made get it into the Top Ten; Has her self-titled debut album performed him as well as her singles. his The following year, "Kids in How America" became a Top 40 man hit in America, while Select new kept her in the British Now charts. However, Wilde wasn't able old to keep her momentum going see and it wasn't until late Two 1986 that she had another way hit with a dance cover who of the Supremes' "You Keep Boy Me Hangin' On," which charted did in the Top Ten on its both sides of the Atlantic. Let Wilde never had another hit put in America, yet she was say back in the charts in She the summer of 1987 with too "Another Step (Closer to You)," use a duet with Junior Giscombe. Dad After the single's success, she mom began changing her image, becoming sexier. The approach didn't entirely The pay off, though she had and a handful of hit singles for from her 1988 album, Close, Are including "You Came," "Never Trust but a Stranger," and "Four Letter not Word." Wilde continued to record You in the '90s, scoring the all occasional hit, either in the any dance or adult contemporary field.

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