I was insulted a lot and had beer thrown at me on stage. I got a platinum disc, was asked to present Top of the Pops and, at one point, owned two houses in the same street in Barcelona. They said they were glad because they were fed up being No 1. In Britain, it went straight to No 1, knocking Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around off the top after 15 weeks. Then suddenly labels right across Europe wanted it. I remember someone telling me: “I hated it at first, but now it’s stuck in my head.” People would hear it and start whistling it. I named myself Whigfield after my old music teacher. The song is like a nursery rhyme, with lyrics about what girls do when they’re getting ready to go out, and about getting hot when they’re out dancing. We must have done over 20 takes, then they just painstakingly spliced the best bits together.
I’m the first to admit I’m no Maria Callas. ‘Wet Wet Wet said they were glad it knocked Love Is All Around off No 1. It wasn’t my kind of music, but it at least sounded unlike everything else around at the time. By the mid-1990s, I was just about to quit when they came up with Saturday Night. It’s not easy being told your music is shit. He persuaded me to sing for them.įor years, nobody was interested. One of the club DJs, Davide Riva, was part of a music production duo. I ended up scraping by, doing modelling by day and PR for clubs at night. I studied fashion design in Copenhagen, then decided to go to Milan and show the Italians how it’s done.
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