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Geri Halliwell See rationale on the talk page, or replace this tag with a more specific message. Editing help is available. (born August 6, 1972Geri Halliwell is a British pop music singer and songwriter. Halliwell rose to prominence in the late 1990s as one of the five members of the girl group the Spice Girls, where she had been known as "Ginger Spice".

Halliwell was born and grew up in Watford, in the county of Hertfordshire to a British-Swedish father and Spanish mother. She was raised in a Jehovah's Witness household.

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Before starting her music career, she worked as a club dancer in Majorca, as model on a Turkish game-show and as a soft-porn model.

Geri Halliwell first found fame as one of the five members in the girl group the Spice Girls. The group became one of the most successful musical artists of the 1990s selling over forty million albums with the studio releases . Their debut single "Wannabe" became the first of a string of number-ones in the United Kingdom (nine in total) and reached the top position in thirty-seven countries around the globe, including Australia, Canada, and the U.S. Other successful releases followed including "Say You'll Be There" and "2 Become 1" from Her actions left a great deal of controversy concerning her former band which had yet to embark on a North American tour, one they would eventually complete without Halliwell.sup Although she had already left the group, the Spice Girls released "Viva Forever", the final music video to feature Halliwell.sup Subsequent releases from the Spice Girls with the exception of "Goodbye" went unnoticed, largely due to Halliwell's impact on leaving the group at the . The album was yielded by her debut solo single "Look at Me", which reached number two in the UK, behind Boyzone's "You Needed Me". Further singles from the album "Mi Chico Latino" and "Lift Me Up" became UK number-ones with the latter outselling Halliwell's former bandmate Emma Bunton. Testing her popularity at the time came with the fourth single "Bag It Up", which also reached number one. Demonstrating typical flair for outrageous promotion, Halliwell performed "Bag It Up" during the Brit Awards ceremony in 2000, emerging from a giant vagina and walking in stilleto heels over the backs of topless pink-haired men whilst singing the song.

"Look at Me" was released to radio in the United States in late 1999, receiving limited airplay. Even more surprisingly, with only a radio single, debuted at number forty-two on the Billboard 200 before dropping out within the next month. The album was eventually certified gold, selling just over 500,000 copies, but no further singles from or LPs were released in the United States.

Halliwell has had high profile, but short lived, relationships with both Chris Evans and Robbie Williams. As these relationships have occured around the time of her single releases there have been claims that they are orchestrated for publicity purposes.

Halliwell has also pursued a TV career in America, re-uniting with former Spice Girls manager, Simon Fuller, to host . It also included a UK number one cover of the Weather Girls' 1983 hit, "It's Raining Men", used on the . The song had been added to the album at the last minute; another song, "Feels Like Sex" had already been slated as the lead single. In the event, this song remained an album-only track, with the follow-up singles being "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" (number eight) and "Calling" (number seven), the latter, as Halliwell, stated was her favourite co-written track on the album. In 2003, she came ninth in the Channel 4 poll of the 100 Worst Britons.

She has released two best-selling autobiographies in 1999 and 2002, detailing her rise to fame, and her turbulent celebrity life that resulted from a difficult break-up with longtime boyfriend Mike Jones. She has also released two Yoga DVDs which sold fairly well.

Geri also featured on the UK television programme "Popstars: The Rivals" in 2002 which featured her as a judge alongside Pete Waterman and Louis Walsh.

In 2004 Geri Halliwell made a return to the music scene with her single "Ride It", which reached number four on the UK charts and number one on the dance charts. The single was not promoted abroad but still sold well throughout Europe. It was the first single from her third album, which was at that stage slated for a spring release after a second single. However, several months elapsed before another single was released, during which time Halliwell was apparently ordered to record some new tracks for the as-yet unreleased album by her record company, who were unhappy with the setlist. One of these new songs was "Desire", an attempt to cash-in on the electro that had recently provided others such as Kylie Minogue and Rachel Stevens with hits. Despite little airplay (radio stations and TV music channels didn't pay attention to the track), "Desire" still reached the top thirty in the UK at number-twenty two. Released shortly after, similarly received little attention from the public or critics, but it was still the only time a Spice Girl gone solo released three albums on a major label; and it still made the UK Top 50.

Since 2003, Halliwell has been in contact with the rest of the Spice Girls, and rumours of a reunion have been swirling, especially since all five members have now had singles success of some degree or another. Rumours indicated that they might perform together again in 2005, at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London. Initially organisers axed the idea, but after the publicity surrounding the cut, Bob Geldof stated that they would reconsider their possible attendance. However, the Spice Girls were in the end not present for the Live 8 show, the press claiming that this was due to Melanie Brown changing her mind a few days before the performance.

It is nevertheless rumoured that a third single from the album, "Love Never Loved Me", may be released later in the year. Geri also stated on her site that she was in LA working on new projects that would be debuted in the not to distant future.

In October 2005, after "Desire" was a moderate failure, and the Spice Girls reunion never materialized, Halliwell fired her managers, husband-and wife team Paul and Katie Conroy, and went to Los Angeles, California to work on unnamed projects. She was subsequently photographed by the paparazzi, having put on weight and looking exhausted. Instantly, the tabloids reported that Halliwell was pregnant. She has yet to deny or confirm this, and her fashion choices of late make it hard for anyone to tell. The father of the child is rumoured to be British "Spice Girls will do U.S. tour, with or without Ginger". London (AP). Saturday, May 30, 1998. Aallpop.canoe.ca.In 1998 Halliwell split from The Spice Girls. Amid rumours of ructions, she left in May (although she did feature the August hit, "Viva Forever").Halliwell left at the peak of [the Spice Girls] success, and the remaining four have not recorded together since 2000.