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Malandra Burrows
12+ albums
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She started dancing after encouragement from her mother, under the tutelage of Billy Pearce's mother Jean: she appeared on YTV’s "Junior Showtime" at the age of six. In 1974 Malandra Newman became the youngest-ever winner of New Faces, appearing on the same "all-winners" show with Les Dennis and Victoria Wood. Changing her surname to Burrows for registration with Equity, she later appeared in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, and had minor musical success in the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 11 with the song 'Just This Side Of Love' in 1990.She then released a self penned single 'Summernight Love' in 1996 on AATW/DKAM Records (chart position unknown). This resulted in a recording contract with Warner Bros and two more singles ("Carnival in Heaven" and "Don't Leave Me") also hit the UK charts (albeit the lower reaches: #49 and #54, respectively). Her most prominent role to date was as Kathy Glover in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, a role which she played from 1985 to 2001, coming back again briefly in 2005. First husband Jackie Merrick accidentally shot himself in 1988; her second marriage to wheelchair-bound Chris Tate ended in 1994 when he admitted to an affair; in 1996 Kathy’s third husband Dave Glover died saving a baby he thought to be his own from a house fire as he was about to elope with his mistress Kim Tate. Poor Kathy was even dumped at the altar by her fourth fiancee Biff in 1999. During her 17-year stint, Kathy was kidnapped by a diamond thieving lord, knoc
top songs
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Just This Side Of Love
692Carnival In Heaven
43Don't Leave Me
44Carnival In Heaven (Radio Version)
45Carnival In Heaven (The Carnival Mix)
46Don't Leave Me (Radio Mix)
37Carnival In Heaven [Radio Version]
38Carnival In Heaven (The Heavenly Mix)
29Just This Side of Love (#11, 22/12/1990)
110Don't Leave Me (Extended Mix)
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