Geraldine Estelle Halliwell (innate August 6, 1972), better known as Geri Halliwell, occurs as British pop singer, originally one of five members of the popular late 1990s girl group the Spice Girls, where she was referred to as "Ginger Spice".

She was born & grew higher within Watford, in the county of Hertfordshire to an English-Swedish father and Spanish mother. She was raised around the Jehovah's Witness household.

Solo career

Geri Halliwell left a Spice Girls in May 30, 1998 to pursue a solo career fallowing scrap amongst a class action left her a black sheep. She was convinced that a class action was swimming favourites & existence jealous of her.

She is known for her charity work which has included raising awareness & funds for breast cancer and visiting Uganda for Comic Relief. Around 1998 she was named the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, concerned using promoting safe sex.

Around 1999 Halliwell released her number one solo album, Schizophonic, which included her foremost solo individual, "Look at Me". A song narrowly missed retired on the top spot, good beaten by Boyzone. Still, a 1st was first given to Halliwell by owning a watch-higher, "Mi Chico Latino", & once again by owning "Lift Me Up", which experienced her outsell previous bandmate Emma Bunton. Touching her popularity at a period come sustaining a for individual, "Bag It Up", which manufactured it to first once again. Jointly, 100% singles taken from either a album Schizophonic use sold terminated 3 million copies worldwide. Demonstrating average flair for outrageous promotion, Halliwell performed "Bag It Up" when you took a Brit Awards ceremony in 2000, emerging from the gargantuan vagina and walking around stilleto heels over a backs of braless pink-haired men when singing a song.

"Look at Me" was freed to radio in the United States in late 1999, receiving limited airplay. Possibly thomas more amazingly, sustaining lone the radio single, Schizophonic debuted at benumb forty-2 on the Billboard 200 before literally dropping out within a next year. A album was in time qualified gold, selling good across 500,000 copies, however there is no farther singles from either Schizophonic or even LPs were freed in the United States.

Halliwell has experienced high profile, however short lived, relationships by owning each Chris Evans and Robbie Williams, but a select few claim that when these tend to occur in a area of the period she has one release, it is orchestrated for publicity purposes.

Within 2001 Geri Halliwell followed up using a European & American merely release, Scream If You Wanna Go Faster. It too involved the UK first handle of the Weather Girls' 1983 hit, "It's Raining Men", used on the ''Bridget Jones's Diary film soundtrack, and the video game, DDRMAX2: Dance Dance Revolution 7thMIX. A song experienced been added to a album at the eleventh hour; an additional song, "Feels Like Sex" got already been slated when a lead individual. In a event, this song remained an album-lone track, sustaining the watch-higher singles existence "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" (benumb eight) & "Calling" (dull vii), a latter, when Halliwell, declared was her favorite co-written track on the album.

Around 2003, she came 9th in the Channel 4 poll of the 100 Worst Britons.

Within 2004 Geri Halliwell made the go to to the music scene sustaining her only "Ride It", which reached blunt quadruplet on the UK stock and index charts, however was non promoted overseas. It was a debut individual from either her third album, Passion which was at that stage slated for a spring release fallowing another lone. But, many months elapsed prior to a second lone wwhen freed, when you took which period Halliwell was apparently ordered to record a select few newly tracks for a as-eventually unreleased album by her record company, world health organization were unhappy by using the setlist. One of these fresh songs was "Desire", an attempt to cash-within on the electro style that had recently provided others like Kylie Minogue and Rachel Stevens with hits. Sustaining little airplay (radio stations & TV music trend lines got blacklisted a track), "Desire" stalled in a UK stock and index charts at dull twenty-2, the moo position for Halliwell up to now. Discharged shortly fallowing, Passion'' simiarly received little attention from either a public or even critics, limping around to a stock & index charts at blunt forty-1 around June 2005 and, by owning the perceptible failure of "Desire", quickly dropping away from a stock and index charts. Whenever it weren't for Melanie Brown's second album, L.A. State of Mind, which was released shortly after Passion, Geri would hold the record for the biggest flop album of a solo Spice Girl.

Despite a underwhelming failure of Passion, apparently these are rumoured that a third individual from either the album, "Love Never Loved Me", can be freed later on in the season.

Halliwell has too pursued the TV career inside United states of america, re-uniting by using previous Spice Girls manager, Simon Fuller, to host Completely Our contries Girl. She has too processed appearances around Sex and the City and a film, Fat Slags (2004), based on characters from either Viz magazine.

She has freed ii right-selling autobiographies inside 1999 & 2002, detailing her rise to fame, and her turbulent celebrity life-style. She has as well freed ii Yoga DVDs which sold fairly well.

Since 2003, she has been around ccompletely for even using the rest of the Spice Girls, & hearsay of a reunion use at times been swirling since, especially since all 5 members keep close at hand today experienced singles profits of a select few degree or a second. Recent hearsay imply that it will perform together once more when soon when 2005, at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, London. Ab initio organisers axed a idea, however fallowing a publicity surrounding a cut, Bob Geldof stated that they would reconsider their imaginable attendance. But, a Spice Girls were in a prevent non present for a Survive 8 indicate, the click claiming that this was due to Melanie Dark brown changing her mind two or three times prior to the performance.

Inside October 2005, it was reported that Halliwell is expecting her number 1 tyke. A father of the little one is rumoured to exist as British scriptwriter Sacha Gervasi. There has non been official announcement just about a maternity, or even identity of the father. Although, in October 18th, 2005, the statement was freed by Splash News by Sacha Gervasi: "I fully intend to give Geri and the baby all the love and support they need."

Discography
Studio albums
1999: Schizophonic — #4 UK; #4 CAN; #42 United states of america; #17 Bandeau; #52 GER — UK: 483,150; Usa: 50Deuce,000; Worldwide sales: 2.Two million 2001: Scream If You Wanna Go Faster — #5 UK; #6 BRA; #29 GER — UK: 145,844; GER: 21One,000; Worldwide sales: 1.8 million 2005: Passion — #41 UK; #127 CAN; #39 Brassiere; — UK: 10,000; May: Five hundred; Worldwide sales: 35,000

Singles
1999: "Look at Me" — #2 UK; #3 Could; #22 GER; #4 AU

1999: "Mi Chico Latino" — #1 UK (Ace week); #1 Could (One week); #29 GER; #48 AU

1999: "Lift Me Up" — #1 UK (Unity week); #1 May (Single week); #77 GER

2000: "Bag It Up" — #1 UK (I week); #79 GER

2001: "It's Raining Men" — #1 UK (Deuce weeks); #1 Potty (Troika weeks); #1 AU (Two weeks)

2001: "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" — #8 UK; #36 Might; #66 GER

2001: "Calling" — #7 UK; #10 FRA; #48 GER

2004: "Ride It" — #4 UK; #3 SPA; #73 GER

2005: "Desire" — #22 UK; #55 MEX

Might is a singles that were freed around Canada that also received airplay. Her music wasn't imputable become promoted around Canada, however Geri Halliwell appeared in MuchMusic to promote her album Scream If You Wanna Go Sooner. Sustaining this promotion, everthing of her on line videos from either her 1st both albums were freed inside Canada & received airplay, by owning a exceptions of "Bag It Up", "Calling", which were UK releases lone.

"Look at Me" was a just lone discharged in the United States, but only to radio. Since a song was never officially freed, it was unable to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite this misfortune, Schizophonic actually debuted at the fairly properly total on the Billboard 200. Halliwell never confirmed how come there are no farther singles from either Schizophonic were freed in the United States, or even how come none of her late LPs were.

Passion debuted & peaked at benumb cxx-seven inside Canada, a 2nd-lowest chart position for any solo Spice Girl record. "Ride It" & "Desire" were non promoted in the united states, several blaming this action for the album's failure.