Soul II Soul
The group also had some success in the United States, where “Back To Life” reached the Top 10 and was certified platinum, and the album (renamed as Keep On Moving for the US market) reached the Top 20 and sold over two million copies but they had greater success in Europe. It appears the group was just not ready for success with an undefined and confusing concept in which Jazzy B stated Soul II Soul was not a group it was a collective.This proved to be true with constant changes in the line-up and the first female lead Caron Wheeler, who sang on the group’s first hits Keep on Movin’ and Back to Life, leaving the group after the first album to start a failed solo career. In 2002, Doreen Waddell, a former singer with Soul II Soul living in Hove, died after being hit by three cars while fleeing from a shoplifting incident. The 36-year-old, who left a 4-year-old son, sang some lead vocals on Soul II Soul’s 1989 Club Classics Vol. One album.The daughter of former member Melissa Bell, Alexandra Burke, was the winner of the 2008 series of the UK television talent contest The X Factor and has since gone on to a successful music career of her own. On 2 December 2008, a radio program about Soul II Soul was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The original Soul II Soul Sound featuring Caron Wheeler toured Australia nationally in February 2009.
