What makes a successful ensemble - S Club 7 - Rachel Stevens

In our groups we have to create a play based on a music band to show their history and why they were so successful and what they did to become it.

Our chosen band was S Club 7 because there are 7 we each got a member each, I got Rachel Stevens, being a huge fan of the band made me quite excited to get her as she is my favourite.

S Club 7 -

S Club 7 are a pop group whose members are Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens, Tina Barrett, Jo O'Meara, Bradley Macintosh, Hannah Spearritt and Jon Lee. This British pop band were assembled in 1998 and started receiving their fame through their own tv show Miami 7 in which the played themselves. After it finished they then continued as a band for another 5 years.

Within the five years they had a very successful career as a band including 4 UK number one singles as well as a number 1 uk album and sold over 10 million albums worldwide.

However in 2002 Paul Cattermole decided that he needed to move on from S Club 7 as he wanted to return to his original style of music which was rock rejoining a group he was a part of in 1992, Suka.

Even After he left they went on to create  film named after their album Seeing Double whilst filming this rumours of the group disbanding were around but were denied by the band until just after the premiering and their reunion tour, they announced within a show that they were splitting up.

Here is some information about Rachel Stevens within S Club 7:

Within the Band Rachel was the only one who did not or have to audition for the band, she was contacted by two producers that got her to record a demo for Simon Fuller the creator of the band.

Rachel Stevens was born on the 9th of April 1978 in Southgate, London. Her parents are Linda and Michael Stevens as well as two brothers Leigh and Jason. Rachel's first big hit in life was when she won a modelling contest sponsored by Just 17 magazine after this she then went into fashion and business studying at the London College of Fashion, she pursued other options such as public relations before getting bored and finally went into singing eventually leading in S Club 7.

She was apart of the group until the official split in 2003, she then went on to have a solo career signing a 1.5 million four album deal with Polypro Records as well as re signing with Simon Fuller. Releasing songs such as Sweet Dreams my LA Ex and Funky Dory.

Rachel said at one point once they has split that it was hard to try and create a solo career after as each member were perceived as their bands personas such as the singer, the dancer or the ditzy one and as they never really had a say in the bands image it was going to be hard to break that appearance in which they held in S Club 7.