Say You'll Be There: Spice Girls to perform in Vancouver
Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2007 | 10:36 AM ET
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Promoters for The Spice Girls reunion tour say the famous five will be landing Canada in December.
Three additional stops on the tour have been announced: Vancouver, Shanghai and San Jose, Calif.
The reunited Spice Girls, top, as they announced their concert tour in London in June; below, at the peak of their success at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.
(Lefteris Pitarakis/Remy De La Mauviniere/Associated Press)
Melanie Brown (Scary), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty), Geri Halliwell (Ginger), Emma Bunton (Baby) and Victoria Beckham (Posh) announced in June they would launch a once in a lifetime reunion concert tour.
"Obviously, it's nostalgic. But equally, if new fans want to come along, that's fantastic," Halliwell said at the announcement in June. "I like to think our songs are universal and they are timeless."
The new dates — Dec. 2 in Vancouver, Dec. 4 in San Jose and Jan. 10, 2008, in Shanghai — bring to 14 the total number of concerts the Spice Girls are planning.
Other stops on the tour include:
- New York.
- Los Angeles.
- Las Vegas.
- Buenos Aires.
- London.
- Madrid.
- Cape Town.
- Beijing.
- Hong Kong.
- Sydney.
- Koln, Germany.
The group will also release a greatest hits album in November, prior to the tour, and are working on a television documentary.
Formed in 1994, the Spice Girls have sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.
Their pop hits includie Wannabe, Say You'll Be There and 2 Become 1 off their 1996 debut album Spice.
There were reports of infighting by the time the group's second album, Spice World, came out a year later. Halliwell left in 1998.
The last Spice Girls album, Forever, was released in 2000. A year later, the rest of the group broke up.
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