Lisa Scott-Lee

Lisa Scott-Lee (born 5 November 1975) is a Welsh singer and member of the pop group Steps, formed in 1997.

Lisa Scott-Lee was born on 5 November 1975 in St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales, to parents Anthony and Janet.

Her younger siblings are Andy, Anthony and Steven, who were in the band 3SL.

Scott-Lee's great-grandfather was Chinese.

She attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts stage school.

Scott-Lee is a member of the UK pop group Steps.

The group, which came together in 1997 and had 14 top 5 singles in the UK, split up on Boxing Day 2001 before reforming in May 2011.

Ever since the group's break-up, rumours had been circulating that they would reunite in one form or another.

Scott-Lee signed a record deal with Mercury Records and launched a solo career in 2003, achieving only minor success after the release of debut single "Lately".

She was dropped after her second solo single.

She released in April 2003 with her debut single, "Lately", which she co-wrote.

The single was released on 12 May 2003 and peaked in the singles chart at number 6.

On 8 September 2003, Scott-Lee released her second single (which she also co-wrote), "Too Far Gone", which entered the charts at number 11.

Mercury parted company with Scott-Lee when they feared her success might be limited.

She was left without a record company.

As a result, her album, Unleashed, was cancelled, although promotional samplers had already been released.

Scott-Lee went on to be featured in the Girls of FHM music video for "Do You Think I'm Sexy?"

in the summer of 2004, all the while preparing to release a new single.

The single, "Get It On", was a collaboration between Intenso Project and Scott-Lee.

At the time the song was created they had yet to score a record deal for the song and were forced to self-fund the video.

Eventually Ministry of Sound picked the song up and it was released on 28 November 2004.

Despite numerous personal appearances, various promotional events, and a B-list placing on Capital Radio, the song's highest place on the charts was at number 23.

The "Get It On" music video was ranked in the FHM top 100 sexiest music videos.

She performed on Saturday night takeaway on 11 March to publicise her comeback tour.

In the summer of 2005 it was revealed that a camera crew from MTV UK had been following Scott-Lee for nearly a year, tracking her life and those of her husband (Johnny Shentall of Hear'Say), her brother (Andy Scott-Lee), former publicist (Sean Borg), 80s pop singer turned music manager (Nathan Moore), and her brother's girlfriend Michelle Heaton (of Liberty X).

The show was to be the UK version of MTV's US hit Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.

As time passed more information was revealed.

The show, titled Totally Scott-Lee (originally Scott-Lee Unlimited) was to follow Scott-Lee's efforts to put her solo career back on track.

In the show Lisa stated that she wanted to score a top ten hit with her next single or she would quit the music industry.

Scott-Lee was signed to a small record label, Concept Records, and began recording songs for her next single.

Concept chose "Electric" and started making plans for its release.

The single had to be released on 10 October 2005 to meet with deadlines for the show, with the chart position to be revealed live to Lisa on MTV on Sunday 16 October 2005.

Roseann McBride, assistant to managing director Max Bloom of Concept Records has gone on record (on the show and in private) several times saying that she was against the record being released on this date.

One of the main reasons for this was that it would have very little promotion time (5 weeks as opposed to the usual 8–10 weeks).

She released her debut solo album Never or Now in 2007 through Concept Records.

In 2009, Lee Latchford-Evans revealed that the group had been approached to perform a series of concerts.

He hinted that a future reunion was possible, but that "it isn't the right time right now".

Scott-Lee spent a short time managing her three younger brothers, including Andy, in a group of their own called 3SL.

After little success they were dropped from their label and split up.

Scott-Lee decided she would go solo and was signed to Mercury Records.