Belle Amie

2010: Formation and The X Factor

Belle Amie consisted of singers Esther Campbell, Sophia Wardman Rebecca Creighton and Geneva Lane. The group was formed after all members applied as solo candidates for the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010, but failed to qualify for the "Girls" category. The judges, after a suggestion by Cowell, put them together in a band, qualifying for the Groups category. Their qualifying song, as well as their first song ever as a group, was an acoustic version of "Faith".

In the first week of live shows, they sang "Airplanes" by B.o.B and were safe. In week 2, they sang "You Really Got Me". As a result of the public vote, they were put in bottom three and had to sing in the final showdown on 17 October, after Storm Lee polled the least amount of votes and was eliminated. They sang "Big Girls Don't Cry" and were saved by judges Louis Walsh, Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole voted to save them and eliminate Diva Fever instead, without having their mentor Simon Cowell to vote.

In the third week, they sang "I'll Stand by You", in which they progressed to the fourth week, where they performed "Venus". However, they were in the bottom two with Katie Waissel, and sang "Breakaway" in the final showdown. The result went to deadlock, and Belle Amie were eliminated.

A week later, the group performed at G-A-Y, along with Diana Vickers. On the future as a band, Geneva said "'We want to keep ourselves busy, we don’t want to fade. We hope to progress and become stronger. We are definitely staying together and are going to move in together at some point, we’re looking already. We want to experiment and really find ourselves, because we still feel that we need to find our identity, so this is going to be good for us.

2011—12: Lane's departure, debut album and Creighton's departure

In January 2011, it was reported Geneva Lane had left the group. Lane stated her short time with the band "was absolutely brilliant, but as time went on I realised that it wasn't what I wanted and I missed performing with a live band and songwriting."

Two months after Lane's departure, they released a snippet of their debut single "Girls Up" in March 2011. The band signed a record deal with Dodient Records and their debut single "Girls Up" was released on digital download and CD single on 28 August 2011. The music video premiered in early June 2011 and became 16th most watched video world-wide in two days on YouTube. On 29 June 2011 the group uploaded a Mash-up of songs from 2011 to their official YouTube channel. On 1 July 2011, Perez Hilton blogged about the remix, stating it as "an awesome mash-up of some of the hits of 2011…so far!".

On 11 August 2011, they appeared on The Crush and performed a cover of Tinchy Stryder's "Spaceship". On 30 September 2011, they released a snippet of a new song titled, "Shine". On 2 October 2011, Esther and Rebecca revealed that the group plan to release their debut album sometime next year, after they release several new singles. In February 2012 they uploaded their second full song "Stand Up" On 13 April 2012, it was announced that Rebecca had left the group to pursue a solo career leaving original members, Esther and Sophia, with an undetermined future.

2013—present: Revival and debut album

On 24 July 2013, Campbell and Wardman have found two members to replace former members, Lane and Creighton. Jessica Batist and Clarissa "Risa" White. The new formed girl group are in thoughts of maybe adding a fifth member. As of 24 July 2013, Dodient Records have taken Belle Amie off the label. The girls are now looking to find a new firm that can take the newly formed Belle Amie to success. "Girls Up" was re-recorded with Batist and White's voices, and their debut album as a new group will be entitled Fresh Girl.

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