POP lovelies the Sugababes may have lost a member but they're still doing two shows in Wales this year.

The girl band will headline Cardiff International Arena on Thursday, April 7 and support Take That in the Millennium Stadium on Wednesday, June 21.

The two remaining members, Keisha Buchanan, 21, and Heidi Range, have three months to get new singer Amelle Berrabah, a 21-year-old from Hampshire, up to speed before their UK tour begins.

She replaced Mutya Buena in December after the old singer had left explaining that she felt unable to commit to the act for another year. The 20-year-old had been in the Sugababes for seven years in which time the band became one of Britain's favourites and she gave birth to her first child in March last year.

The new singer was introduced to the remaining members by their management as someone who can sing and looks good.

It is the second time the line-up of Sugababes has changed, the first being the arrival of Heidi Range in 2001 after original member Siobhan Donaghy left during a Japanese tour.

Keisha Buchanan and Mtuya Buena were childhood friends in London, their parents having immigrated from Jamaica and Filipinos respectively. They met third member Siobhan Donaghy at a party when they were 13 years old and within a couple of years they were singing together.

London Records snapped them up, got them together with All Saints writer Cameron McVey, and produced their first hit Overload.

However, their debut album, One Touch, was almost entirely self-penned and represented a fusion of contemporary urban beats and classic soul vocals.

In 2001 London Records ditched the band and Siobhan Donaghy quit but by November the new line-up had signed to Universal.

May 2002 saw Sugababes at the top of the charts with a cover of the Girls On Top bootleg hit Freak Like Me.

Using the bootleg style of mixing different pop tracks together they combined the Adina Howard song, Freak Like Me, and Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric?

It was the first time of four that Sugababes topped the singles charts and they have also released three albums. The latest single, Ugly, which was the last to feature Mutya Buena, was released on Monday, December 5, and followed Push The Button which stayed at number one for three weeks.