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Mel C has collaborated with Peter Aristone.
The 40-year-old singer and the up-and-coming musician are set to release their new single 'Cool As You', which explores the early stages of a relationship between two lovers, later this month.
Mel said: "I have been lucky enough in my career to work with various artists and I always enjoy collaborating, especially with other vocalists. As soon as I heard 'Cool As You' I was excited to be involved with the project and Peter was a pleasure to work with."
'Cool As You', which will feature on Peter's forthcoming album '19 Days in Tetbury', will be the second release by the singer following his debut single 'Sunlight', which was a massive hit last summer.
Peter said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to be working with an international recording artist of Melanie C's standing. To have this happen on my second single release in the UK is like a dream come true for me."
Meanwhile, Mel C is performing a 'secret gig' at the trendy Queen of Hoxton pub in East London on Wednesday (12.03.14) and, with a 250 capacity restriction at the venue, it's likely to be packed out.
'Cool As You' will be available from March 31, 2014, on iTunes and '19 Days in Tetbury' will be released in the Autumn.
To listen to another track, 'All We Can Dream', from Peter's upcoming album, you can check out his soundcloud: Soundcloud.com/peter-aristone/all-we-can-dream

Jennifer Hudson's new album is inspired by her personal tragedies.
The 32-year-old singer, whose mother Darnell, brother Jason, and nephew Julian were gunned down by her former brother-in-law, William Balfour, in October 2008, insists she has forgiven their killer to try and find peace and has used her late mother's phrases in her new material.
Talking about the upcoming record, the 'I Can't Describe' singer said: "It's my story - it's me, it's my voice, it's my perspective. There's a song called 'Moan' that I wrote, which came from something my mother always used to say, 'If you moan, it makes you better if something hurts.
"It will definitely be difficult to perform. Oh my God, it was difficult to record. Because it's so personal, it was really emotional."
Balfour, who was married to Jennifer's sister Julia, was handed three life sentences for the murders in 2012 without the possibility of parole, along with 120 years for other convictions.
Jennifer, who is headlining today's global empowerment 'We Day' event at London's Wembley Arena, has been working with the likes of 'Happy' hitmaker Pharrell Williams and producer Timbaland and will soon release more details about her third studio album, the follow-up to 2011's 'I Remember Me'.
She added to The Daily Mirror newspaper: "I want everybody to be Jenniferised! I want to reflect my energy, how I am when you meet me, in my music."

Yoko Ono has written an open letter to Elbow thanking the band for mentioning her in a song.
The Japanese artist - the widow of Beatles legend John Lennon - has been name-checked by the group on their latest track 'New York Morning'.
In the lyrics, frontman Guy Garvey sings: "Oh, my giddy aunt, New York can talk, It's the modern Rome and folk are nice to Yoko."
The song is taken from their latest album 'The Take Off And Landing Of Everything' and references the time when Yoko lived with John in New York before he was almost kicked out of the US in 1973 by immigration authorities for his marijuana conviction in Britain in 1968.
John - who was shot dead outside the Dakota Building in NYC by Mark Chapman in 1980 - was given 60 days to leave the country but his order of deportation was later overturned and he received his green card.
Yoko, 81, wrote on her official website: "Dear Guy, Craig, Mark, Pete and Richard, Yes. New York has been kind to me as your song says. Thank you (sic).
"For John, he always wanted to come and live in this city, ever since he saw Bob Dylan on the famous album cover (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan). And I played the catalyst to make his dream come true.
"But in sleepless nights, I am still living in the memory of my sweet husband, who was virtually kicked out of his own country that he loved so dearly and learned to live in this bleak port city just so his woman and he could live in peace.
"Two sides of the coin. Life is. Have a great time in New York.
We loved it. Love, Yoko."

Adam Lambert will tour with Queen this summer.
The 'American Idol' 2009 winner, who has performed with the band in the past, will join guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor on a 19-date tour, which Brian claims will be the "closest that you'll ever get to see Queen as it was in our golden days."
Adam told Rolling Stone magazine: "I think the thing that's really special is that this is the real deal. This is live.
"In today's music world, you go to a concert and you're getting a lot of playbacks. There's click tracks. It is what it is. I'm not hating on it. But this is the real deal. This is pure."
He added: "We're not playing to a click. We're not playing to tracks. This is all live instruments. I'm singing all the vocals with these guys on vocals. It's purely organic. I think in today's day and age, it's very exciting for an audience to see something that has that much heart."
Brian insists it is "not an imitation" of the days when Freddie, who died in 1991 of bronchopneumonia, a complication of AIDS, was the frontman in the band, but says he wants to give younger fans the opportunity to see Queen live and create a new experience.
The 66-year-old musician said: "We're here live and real and we have a great singer. They'll be a lot of newness about this. I think that's very exciting. It'll be loud and dangerous and all the things that people used to look for in us."
Adam, 32, feels "honoured" to be taking the place of Freddie and admits he's still trying to get his head around the fact he has performed with the 'We Will Rock You' hitmakers.
He added: "It's beautiful. It is surreal. I feel inspired by it. When we did our run overseas in Europe, we had about ten days to rehearse. There were definitely some songs I wasn't familiar with. That pressure and that intensity of the process gives it a lot of power. I like pressure."
Adam and Queen's US tour kicks off June 19 in Chicago, and wraps up July 21 in Washington DC.

Wild Beast's Tom Fleming says bands have to have a "certain amount of arrogance" to be successful.
The band released their first single 'Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants' in 2006 but became better known after being nominated for a Mercury Prize for their 2009 album 'Two Dancers', and bassist Tom Fleming thinks bands have to be slightly arrogant in order to do well.
He said: "I don't think the world has got to be any fairer or better a place since we've been making music but I think we still feel - as any good band or artist should feel - that it is you against the world.
"You have to have a certain amount of arrogance mixed with absolute terror that it may or may not work. But that's the good part, that's the exciting part."
Tom and his bandmates' - Hayden Thorpe, Ben Little and Chris Talbot - other albums include their 2008 debut 'Limbo Panto', 2011's 'Smother' and 'Present Tense', which was released last month, and he claims they've never been a "yeah, oh baby" kind of band because their lyrics are important to them.
He told XFM Radio: "I think a lot of our favourite songwriters are lyricists as well. I think lyrics are an instrument. They are supposed to add to a whole - whether those lyrics sound appropriate or inappropriate - lyrics are supposed to have a musical aspect to them too rather than just being words that mean something."

Charlotte Church performed a sci-fi themed concert in London on Wednesday night (05.03.14) to launch her new release 'FOUR'.
The special concert at London's Riverside Studios saw Charlotte don UV face paint and wear a gown with tentacles made of LED lights as she played with her band, who also wore florescent make-up.
The 28-year-old Welsh singer performed tracks from her EP - which is released on March 10 - as well as a haunting Elliott Smith cover and songs from the previous three EPs of her ambitious, five-part series.
For the second half of the concert Charlotte was joined by the London Contemporary Voices choir, and during the finale of the show - which was named 'Entanglement' after the lead track from 'FOUR' - giant tentacles of flashing lights came out from the 28-year-old singer's dress and wrapped around the entire audience.
Fans and guests were painted with UV make-up and were given glowing accessories as they entered the event to create a "cartoon" atmosphere.
Speaking about the gig, Charlotte - who signed copies of 'FOUR' for fans afterwards - said: "It's like a cartoon, big and bright and colourful, but it's also a product of us pushing what we can do and pushing the boundaries when we're performing live."

One Direction want to write a hit song for a new pop act.
The boy band - made up of Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson - have approached a number of acts after getting into songwriting, including girl band Neon Jungle.
The band's Amira McCarthy, 17, told the Daily Star newspaper: "Liam Payne knew who we were and said he was listening to our song in the car. He said that he'd really like to write for us, so we're waiting for the song."
American boy band 5 Seconds Of Summer - who supported One Direction on tour - have also been jamming with Niall and are said to be working on ideas for songs.
Member Calum Hood, 18, said: "We found our common ground was Busted. So there's a few pop rock ideas kicking around already. We'd love to make it happen."
The news come after Liam, 20, and Louis Tomlinson, 22, were named as One Direction's biggest earners after co-writing almost half of the songs on their album 'Midnight Memories', while Harry has also written a song with John Legend for US 'X Factor' duet Alex and Sierra.
Liam said: "We're really enjoying the writing process and we've recorded some of the best material ever for the next album. It's a real step forward."
Niall, 20, has also been learning new chords on his guitar having been taught by friends Ed Sheeran, 23, and Olly Murs, 29.
He said: "I get the guitar out whenever I can. Writing music is really therapeutic."

Queens of the Stone Age think festivals have become "too grand".
The rock band - made up of Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita and Jon Theodore - have ruled out a summer festival and chosen to play a co-headline tour in Australia with Nine Inch Nails instead.
Frontman Josh told Australia's fasterlouder.com: "Lots of festivals are like 50 or 60 bands. It's too much to encapsulate, the idea is too grand.
"I think the notion of somewhere between six to 10 bands is much stronger ... Everyone's chasing the dough all the time instead of trying to make art.
"I know that Trent [Reznor from Nine Inch Nails] and myself get so obsessed with trying to set [our] own bar that it's nice to put bands together and have that solidarity and have something that's greater than the sum of its parts."
Queens of the Stone Age have played a number of festivals in the past including V Festival, Download, Big Day Out and Splendour in the Grass, and Nine Inch Nails - featuring Trent, Robin Finck, Alessandro Cortini and Ilan Rubin - were rumoured to be playing this year's Soundwave tour but said it wasn't the "right vibe" for the band or their fans.
Talking about the decision, frontman Trent said: "That got misconstrued [by Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah] into I'm trying to be - what was it? 'Justin Timberlake'? A better way of saying it is, 'I think your bill sucked and I'd rather not be on that bill.'"
He thinks their latest tour, which kicks off today (06.03.14) at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney, raises the stakes.
Trent joked: "We've gotta throw down or someone's gonna get hurt," adding, "But that's good, everyone wins when you know you have to go all out. That's an exciting facet to what this tour is."

Michael Bublé likes people to have sex to his music.
The 'Close Your Eyes' singer has admitted he likes the thought of people making love while listening to his romantic songs and hopes some shout out his name during the act.
He told the new edition of Cosmopolitan magazine: "I think that's amazing. I love that I get to be a small part of their intimacy," adding, "I just hope sometimes they call my name out."
Michael released his eighth studio album 'To Be Loved' last year and is currently touring the UK with gigs in Birmingham, Glasgow and Manchester in coming days.
The star, who has a six-month-old son, Noah, with his wife, actress Luisana Lopilato, was seen looking happy with his family at Disneyland in California last month.
The 38-year-old hitmaker previously admitted they had "drunk awesome sex" to conceive.
But he admitted wasn't always that sexy, saying: "My wife is so beautiful but it wasn't like that. She was very, 'You know what Mike? It's nine o'clock on Tuesday night and we must do it now', adding, "But you know what's funny, I think when we conceived was actually when we were wasted in Milan and it was the one night we just had drunk awesome sex!"