Celebrities The girl band ‘Sugababes’, booming around the turn of the century, is back in its original composition. Mutya Buena (38), Keisha Buchanan (38) and Siobhan Donaghy (39) left the band one by one. After their hit single ‘Overload’ in 2000, the group had a few other faces, but what did Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan do in the meantime?
Sioban Donaghy was the first to call it quits. After an argument in 2001, she decided she no longer wanted to be part of the band. She found a desk job and was very happy with it. “I had found my calling,” she tells The Sun. “I booked models for 6 years. I really opened up then.” In 2013, Mutya and Keisha reconciled. They got back together, but no longer under the name of ‘Sugababes’, because they didn’t have the rights to it. They were looking for a solution and not much later ‘MKS’ (their initials) was born.
Mutya Buena was less successful than Sioban. She left the group in 2005, but was too famous for a career switch in the meantime. She said: “Siobhan was lucky enough to be able to live a bit of a normal life. I wish I had the chance to work somewhere else. I even did nail styling and hairdressing courses. I wish I was a little braver. But I have such a clear face, so people would recognize me anywhere.”
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The ‘Sugababes’ in original line-up. ©Getty Images
Keisha also left the band in 2009. Eighteen months later she joined ‘MKS’. In that year and a half she was mainly engaged in court cases. She had a lot of friends who took advantage of her. “I had to sue people I trusted.” She also lost her father during that period and was busy trying to regain the rights to the name ‘Sugababes’.
In the end, the three reunited and they also managed to get their name back. At first the group was known as ‘MKS’ for a while, but Keisha managed to legally reclaim the name ‘Sugababes’. In 2019 they did their first comeback performance, after which the group revealed that they were working on new music. However, those plans were put on hold for a while due to the corona pandemic.
In 2021 there was a re-release of ‘One Touch’, in honor of the album’s 20th anniversary. In many countries this re-release scored better than when the album was released in 2000. Meanwhile, they already did a 17-date UK tour last year, including a stop at Glastonbury. “We went through the trenches. It has been a journey that has changed us 100%.
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2023-08-07 13:56:48
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