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Geri Halliwell
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Geraldine Estelle Halliwell, born August 6, 1975, 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.

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 Spice and Spiceworld. 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 Spice, and "Spice Up Your Life", "Too Much" and "Stop" from Spiceworld.

On May 30, 1998, Halliwell departed from the Spice Girls to pursue a solo career. 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. Although she had already left the group, the Spice Girls released "Viva Forever", the final music video to feature Halliwell. 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 height of their success.

n 1999 Halliwell released her first solo album, Schizophonic, which included her first solo single "Look at Me". The song narrowly missed out on the top spot, just beaten by Boyzone. However, the number one was first given to Halliwell with the follow-up, "Mi Chico Latino", and again with "Lift Me Up", which had her outsell former bandmate Emma Bunton. Testing her popularity at the time came with the fourth single "Bag It Up", which made it to number one again. 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, Schizophonic 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 Schizophonic 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 All American Girl. She has also made appearances in Sex and the City and a film, Fat Slags (2004), based on characters from Viz magazine.