Amelle Berrabah

Berrabah was born on 22 April 1984 in Aldershot, Hampshire to Moroccan parents. She has four sisters, younger sister Samiya, older sisters Laila, Zakiya and Nora and a brother, Khaled.[1][2][3][4] Her family owned a kebab shop in Aldershot.[5] Berrabah’s father died of cancer in 2002.[6] Berrabah attended The Connaught School in Aldershot and the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, the latter on the merit of a scholarship. It was then that she met her managers and formed the group Boo2, with her sister, Samiya and began looking for record contract opportunities.[7] She won Top of the Pops magazine’s Star Search in 2003 that gave her the chance to be the lead singer of a new group and had performed at Party in the Park as well.[