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There are faces that are impossible to forget, especially if they were the protagonists of our smiles or rather if they made us sing or dance. AND Anna Kumble was one of them. The British singer known as ‘Lolly’ He was part of different projects, but one day he decided to move away from the media. However, In the last few hours, her current appearance went viral and she was surprised by how she is today.
It was 1999 when the artist, who He was just 22 years old, he led the world ranking for his single “Viva La Radio”. The impact he had was such that he later released his debut album “My Firsts Album” and, although he had a promising future, his career stagnated and He only released a total of five singles and two albums.
In that sense, she decided to move away from music and opted to try her luck as a presenter, a role in which she was seen on shows like Xchange (BBC) and in Nickelodeon, Paramount Global television channel. Likewise, in 2018 and thanks to the emergence of streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music, their albums began to circulate through these applications.
One of her last appearances had been two years ago, when she played the Evil Queen in Snow White. In parallel, its popularity grew on the networks and Kumble managed to gather a large number of followers on TikTok, where he had more than two million views for his presentations. and live songs. Throught social media, It went viral and did not go unnoticed, especially because at 46 years old she looks the same as when she started.
Through her Instagram account, where she has almost 40,000 followers, Anna remembers her beginnings and causes a sensation. In one of the reels that he published shows a reel of images in which he compares the decade of the ’90s with today, where the use of technology now reigns. “Grateful we didn’t have phones back then.”he wrote with humor.
“Finally, I found Lolly’s Instagram”; “I have always loved your music Lolly and it is one of the inspirations to study music and learn to produce!”; “We still cherish our beautiful Anna”; “How beautiful childhood is”were just some of the many comments he received.
During a 2023 interview for retropop, Anna talked about what the beginning of her career was like: “We recorded it, got a contract and went from there. It was very organic and really very easy. The producers were putting together S Club at the time. They were doing other things too and had this idea for an artist who looked like he was imported from Japan or something. So that was the initial concept of Lolly.”
Regarding the reason why he walked away from music, he explained that it was a disagreement about the release of Girls Just Want To Have Funwhich was launched by the iconic Cyndi Lauper. “I really didn’t agree with doing it. I told the record label, ‘I’ll go out and sell it, but I think I’m alienating half my audience.’ Boys like to have fun too. So I got discouraged and realized that I really was a machine and that I had to do what they told me, because they didn’t listen to me,” she said.
Notably, Anna performed as Lolly during the Preston Live 2023 music festival at Moor Park in Preston.
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