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BIOGRAPHY

Lee Latchford Evans
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Name: Lee Latchford Evans was born on 28 January, 1975. His nationality is British. Lee is urrently gigging with new rock band The Latch.

At the age of 18, Lee could have chosen a career in football. Although he trained as an actor and dancer, he really wanted to be a footballer as a kid. Passionate about the game, Lee played for Cheshire County Council and was scouted by Wimbledon, then a Premiership side. At the same time, Lee was offered a scholarship at a prestigious theatre school. As Steps sold over seven million singles, it's hard to argue he made the wrong choice, but soccer remains close to his heart.

Prefab British dance-pop quintet Steps was assembled in 1997 from the thousands of applicants who responded to an advertisement placed in the magazine The Stage; in the wake of extensive auditions, singers Lisa Scott-Lee, Ian "H" Watkins, Claire Richards, Lee Latchford-Evans and Faye Tozer all made the final cut. Steps' debut single "5-6-7-8" soon followed, falling just shy of the UK Top Ten and topping the charts in Belgium; a cover of Bananarama's "Last Thing on My Mind" followed in the spring of 1998, reaching number six in Britain. "One for Sorrow" was the group's biggest hit to date, and led to the release of their debut album Step One; their Christmas single, the double-sided "Heartbeat"/"Tragedy," became their first UK number one in early 1999. The smashes "Love's Got a Hold of My Heart" and "After the Love Has Gone" preceded Steps' sophomore LP, Steptacular

A keen Everton supporter, Lee keeps himself fit and will enjoy the challenge of finding out if he really could have made it as a player, when he faces the Legends XI.