# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melanie-appleby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:49:45.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melanie-appleby"
name: "Melanie Appleby"
slug: "melanie-appleby"
description: "Melanie Susan \"Mel\" Appleby was an English singer and half of the 1980s duo Mel and Kim. They had a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart in March 1987, with the song \"Respectable\"."
tagline: "British singer (1966–1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Melanie_Appleby.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1966-07-11"
deathDate: "1990-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.5
  momentum:             2.669291338582677
  historical:           10.95026933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1861372/"
    handle:    "nm1861372"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/742742"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "ميلاني أبلباي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Appleby"
    title: "Melanie Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Appleby"
    title: "Melanie Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Appleby"
    title: "Melanie Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Appleby"
    title: "Melanie Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Appleby"
    title: "Melanie Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%95%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%B8"
    title: "Мелани Еплби"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Appleby"
    title: "Mel Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Appleby"
    title: "Melanie Appleby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%A8%DB%8C"
    title: "میلانی ایپلبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%85%E5%85%B0%E5%A6%AE%C2%B7%E9%98%BF%E6%99%AE%E5%B0%94%E6%AF%94"
    title: "梅兰妮·阿普尔比"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dedb56b9-448e-444d-81ca-ff4a5d6da3d2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2752337"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump