Geraldine Estelle Halliwell (born August 6, 1972) 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". The name has since been trademarked.
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.
Before starting her music career, she worked as a club dancer in Majorca, as model on a Turkish game-show and as a topless model.
Geri Halliwell first found fame as one of the five members of 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.
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.