Prior to playing Steve Owen on EastEnders, Martin Kemp was a member of Spandau Ballet.

 

 

I may have posted this before, but Lisa Brown’s son with Tom Nielsen (who played Floyd Parker on GL) is the frontman of the long-running popular emo band Senses Fail. James Nielsen played the baby A.J. Chamberlain, Quint and Nola’s son.

 

1 minute ago, Faulkner said:

I may have posted this before, but Lisa Brown’s son with Tom Nielsen (who played Floyd Parker on GL) is the frontman of the long-running popular emo band Senses Fail. James Nielsen played the baby A.J. Chamberlain, Quint and Nola’s son.

 

Famous offspring of soap stars could be another thread entirely.

Adam Rickitt, who once played Nick Tilsley on Coronation Street, had a #5 hit on the UK singles chart with this in 1999:

 

Before she was Helen Grant (Eli's grandmother) on Days Ketty Lester hit no 2 with'Love Letters' in 1962

 

I suddenly remembered Kelle Bryan (Martine Deveraux) Hollyoaks was in the popular UK pop group Eternal in the early 90's. I've been listening a lot of their songs since last year. The group even had a hit or two that reached overseas to the U.S. too. 

 

A pre-Spice Girl Emma Bunton in a bit role on EastEnders:

 

John Stamos has performed a lot with the (much latter day) Beach Boys and released a horrid cover of Forever in the mid-1990s.

Does The Hoff count? 😉 Also, before joining DAYS in the mid-1980s, Marilyn McCoo had many hits as 1/5 of The 5th Dimension.

On 10/5/2021 at 1:57 PM, beebs said:

NO! I NEVER realized. Hahah, I just learned something!

ETA: Missed Natalie/Holly in the earlier post, but also Delta, following the Neighbours train:

 

Delta Goodrem is interesting because there was that whole period where Neighbours devoted itself to promoting Delta's debut album.

I'm not complaining though, it worked for Delta and Neighbours and the songs were good

Lauren White (Nurse Mary Jane "MJ" Match Carroll, The Doctors, 1975-78) has been singing jazz for several years. She's not a huge name, but has released several albums, performs live and has a beautiful voice.

David Hasselhoff (Snapper Y&R) had a #1 single in Austria, Germany and Switzerland with'Looking for Freedom' as a result of Knight Rider's success.

 

Edited October 12, 20214 yr by Paul Raven

With Classic episodes of Emmerdale showing on ITV3 for the past few years now. I'm constantly reminded on Twitter that Malandra Burrows who played the long-running Kathy Bates Merrick Tate Glover Brookman also became a recording artist whose biggest hit "Just This Side of Love" reached # 11 on the UK Singles Chart. She even performed it on Emmerdale in this clip below.

As well as played in the scene with her character in the helicopter with her new groom Chris Tate in the following year too. 

 

Felicia Sanders, who played Stella Bellini (Nick’s sister-in-law) on The Doctors in the 70s, was the vocalist on the Percy Faith Orchestra’s, The Song from Moulin Rouge.  It went to #1 in 1953.

 

Edited October 13, 20214 yr by jam6242

1 hour ago, jam6242 said:

Felicia Sanders, who played Stella Bellini (Nick’s sister-in-law) on The Doctors in the 70s, was the vocalist on the Percy Faith Orchestra’s, The Song from Moulin Rouge.  It went to #1 in 1953.

 

Beautiful! I always wanted Rico (Richard Niles) and Stella to stick around.