Samantha Mumba

Five more Top 10 hits followed in the UK and Samantha Mumba had another top 50 hit in the US. Around the same time Mumba also became the face of Reebok appearing in print advertising in the UK and Ireland for the Quest range. Her father Peter Mumba is from Zambia and was formerly an aircraft engineer her mother is Irish.

She returned to public attention when Samantha Mumba appeared in the 2008 series of Dancing On Ice. After a relatively short music career Samantha Mumba starred in numerous films most notably in the 2002 film The Time Machine. She shot to fame in 2000 with the release of her debut single "Gotta Tell You" which reached the Top 10 in Ireland United Kingdom and the US.