Kirsty McColl
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1. When we talk of British pop music, the names of certain singers come up every time. Some people like the Spice Girls. Others will think of Robbie Williams, and bands such as UB40.
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2. Kirsty is the singer who spent her entire life almost becoming famous. Yet two things always seemed to get in her way. One was pure bad luck. For example, one of her best-known hits was "They don't know". It seemed certain to go to number one.
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3. The other reason that Kirsty did not succeed as much as she deserved is that she was an intelligent woman who did not let the record companies manipulate her. She refused to pretend to be sexy, sultry and brainless. She wrote intelligent songs that were not just about love and passion.
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4. As a result, Kirsty had bad relations with most of the record companies that she worked for. She might have done well with her career, even if she did not like working with recording companies, if she had gone on tour with her songs.
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5. Later in her life, Kirsty found that winters in Britain were too depressing for her, and she started spending the winters in Latin American countries - places like Cuba and Mexico.
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6. It seemed as though Kirsty was finally going to be successful. But fate struck again. In 2000 while she was swimming off a beach in Mexico, someone took a motorboat into the swimmers' area.