Alesha Dixon believes Mis-Teeq are actually getting extra respect for his or her music and for being on the forefront of the UK storage scene.
Alesha Dixon on cowl of Ladies’s Well being UK
The ‘Britain’s Acquired Expertise’ choose was a part of the lady group with Sabrina Washington and Su-Elise Nash and the trio had a string of hits within the early 2000s when storage music dominated the British charts.
Now, 20 years on from their 2005 cut up, Alesha says Mis-Teeq are getting the credit score for being a serious a part of the storage scene.
In an interview with the brand new difficulty of Ladies’s Well being UK journal – for which she was photographed by Matthew Monfredi – she mentioned: “A few of my favorite occasions have been once we have been out and in of golf equipment and DJs have been taking part in our data. ‘Why?’ was an enormous membership hit and we’d be in the midst of the dance ground raving to our personal tune and nobody knew who we have been … I really feel like [as] time goes on, the extra folks respect what we’ve achieved as a result of they realise it’s like lightening in a bottle. We really feel very fortunate we have been a part of one thing that the UK can say ‘That is ours’. The US was untouchable when it got here to R’n’B however the UK storage scene is British.”
Alesha, 46, admits she misses the vibe of the early 2000s, particularly the very fact you may exit clubbing and never have every thing captured on social media.
She mentioned: “Typically I simply wish to go and rave prefer it’s 2000 … I all the time say to my pals once I exit, in case you can’t discover me, go to the DJ sales space. I’ll be proper there. I’m like a magnet in direction of the microphone and earlier than I do know it, I’m on the mic. And you then get up the following day and it’s throughout Instagram and also you go, ‘Oh God’. And it’s high quality, however you simply wish to be within the second – after which it’s on Instagram Tales.”
Alesha did get again on stage to carry out a Mis-Teeq medley and her new single ‘Ransom’ on ‘Britain’s Acquired Expertise’, and he or she admitted that return to the stage made her realise how a lot she misses performing.
She mentioned: “It was like my two worlds met and I felt so alive. I felt at house, surrounded by all people that I do know and love. After which I obtained to carry out, which is my old flame, and it was simply such a fantastic second for me. I simply thought, ‘Oh my God, I’ve missed performing a lot.’ And I did say to myself after that efficiency, ‘Woman, you might want to get again on stage extra as a result of that’s what makes you are feeling alive.'”
Alesha did get a performing repair when she teamed up with Amazon to ship an ultra-fast efficiency revealing Amazon’s document supply speeds.
Within the video posted on Instagram, Alesha will be seen wearing a double-denim outfit as she exhibits off her MC-ing abilities, rattling off at blistering velocity Amazon’s hottest merchandise in 2024, and the UK’s speediest cities.
The partnership comes as Amazon introduced it hit its quickest supply speeds ever for Prime members globally in 2024, with a couple of billion gadgets arriving the identical or subsequent day for UK prospects.
You’ll be able to learn the complete interview Alesha within the March difficulty of Ladies’s Well being UK or on the Ladies’s Well being web site now.