Alesha Anjanette Dixon, the English singer, rapper and TV personality, was born on 7 October 1978 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. According to a Kemi Filani News profile, she is 48 and is also described as a dancer and author. Her net worth is estimated at between £3m and £6m, roughly $4m to $8m.
Rise with Mis-Teeq
Dixon first came to wide attention in the early 2000s as part of the R&B and garage group Mis-Teeq. The profile credits the group with seven back-to-back UK top 10 singles and two top 10 albums that went double platinum. It also says they sold more than 12 million records worldwide. The group split in 2005.
Solo years
After the split she signed with Polydor, which put out her debut solo album, Fired Up, in 2006. The singles Lipstick and Knockdown reportedly did not perform strongly enough to rescue the record, and Polydor dropped her. She then joined Asylum and released The Alesha Show in 2008, which the profile says went platinum with the BPI. It produced The Boy Does Nothing and Breathe Slow. Breathe Slow is described as her biggest hit to date and earned her a Brit Award nomination. Later albums were The Entertainer in 2010 and Do It For Love in 2015.
Family background and childhood
Her father, Melvin Dixon, is Jamaican and her mother, Beverly Harris, is English. She has six half-siblings and attended Monk's Walk School in Welwyn. Her parents separated when she was four and her father moved out. She has called her family life "very dysfunctional".
The profile says she saw her mother abused at home between the ages of eight and ten, and did not speak publicly about it until 2010. That year she made a BBC documentary on domestic abuse seen from a child's point of view, titled Don't Hit My Mum. Reflecting on that time, she said: "When I think about that time I don't remember any happy times really, I don't remember living in any sort of harmony, I suppose the negativity has just clouded it."
She also said: "I genuinely believe that every child has the right to grow up in an environment where they feel safe and fearless as they go out into the world and I certainly didn't feel that." The source does not say where or when she made these remarks beyond the context of the documentary.
Before fame
Her first job was at Ladbrokes. After college she had wanted to become a PE teacher, having completed a diploma in sports studies and planned to go to Loughborough. At a dance class in London a talent scout from a production company approached her. On the train home, a second scout who was assembling a group asked whether she was interested, and her path into music followed.
