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Frequently compared to The Supremes, En Vogue combined the glamour of '60s girl groups with the powerful sound of a new generation. Formed in Oakland, Calif., in 1988, En Vogue -- made up of (from left to right) Dawn Robinson, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, and Terry Ellis -- achieved instant success with their first single, "Hold On" in 1990. Their sophomore album, "Funky Divas" (1992), wasn't just an accurate description of the group -- it was a multi-platinum hit, with singles like "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" and "Free Your Mind." The quartet seemed like they were everywhere in their early-90s heyday -- from Diet Coke commercials to Sesame Street to Bill Clinton's inauguration.
It wasn't so long ago that five British girls were telling international pop fans to "spice up your life!" The Spice Girls (pictured at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards) were formed in 1994 by audition; their first single, "Wannabe," made these sassy ladies the only British band to debut higher on the U.S. charts than The Beatles in 1963. The band -- made up of (from left to right) Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell, Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown, Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton and Melanie "Sporty Spice" Chisolm -- became a phenomenon, with their "girl power" slogan and sexy-strong image turning everything they touched, from dolls to video games, to platinum. After two #1 albums and a Spice Girls movie, Ginger left the band due to "differences;" three years later, following the release of the ironically named "Forever" (2000), the band separated. They reunited for a world tour in 2007.
Nobody has lived up to her Spice Girl name as well as Victoria Beckham (formerly Adams). In 1999, she married soccer heartthrob David Beckham, and "Posh and Becks" (pictured at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscars Party) became one of the world's most-watched couples. Following a short-lived solo music career, Beckham, 37, turned her focus to the fashion world, where she's become a renowned designer and style icon. Now living in the U.S., the Beckhams have three sons -- Brooklyn, 13; Romeo, 9 (who has already appeared on GQ's Best-Dressed List); and Cruz, 7 -- and 9-month-old daughter Harper.
With her gregarious personality and slinky outfits, Mel B, 36, transitioned easily from music to reality TV. Though she did release two solo pop albums, Brown (pictured in Sydney on March 30) has also hosted Oxygen's "Dance Your A** Off" and BBC's "Top of the Pops," judged "The X Factor Australia," starred in her own reality show ("Mel B: It's A Scary World") on the Style Network, and won second place on "Dancing with the Stars." In 2006, Brown became pregnant with her second child, Angel (she was already a mom to daughter Phoenix, now 12), and told the press that ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy was the father -- which he denied, until a paternity test came back positive. Now married to producer Stephen Belafonte, Brown has reconciled with Murphy, and gave birth to a third daughter, Madison, in 2011.
The unofficial leader of the Spice Girls, Geri Halliwell (pictured in London on Feb. 2) was also the first one to leave the splintering group. Her first two solo albums, "Schizophonic" (1999) and "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" (2001) did well in the U.K. (though not in the U.S.). Her third album flopped in 2005, but the singer has successfully branched out into making yoga videos, writing children's books, designing clothing -- and even becoming a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador in support of women's health. Halliwell, 39, gave birth to a daughter, Bluebell Madonna, in 2006, and has never identified the father.
While her bandmates have started fashion labels and written books, Mel C (pictured in London on March 1) has been happy to stick to music. Chisholm, 38, founded her own label, Red Girl Records, and has put out five solo albums between 1999 and 2011. Considered the most musically gifted Spice Girl, Mel C also made an acclaimed musical theater debut in the London show "Blood Brothers" in 2009. The heavily tattooed singer has a 3-year-old daughter named Scarlet with her partner, Thomas Starr.
After the Spice Girls ended, "Baby Spice" grew into a successful solo career, with nine hit singles in the U.K. After her third solo album, "Life In Mono" (2006), failed to catch on, Emma Bunton, 36, turned her attention to her family; she now has two children, Beau and Tate, with longtime partner Jade Jones (from the band Damage). Bunton (pictured in London on March 14) currently hosts a radio show and has a children's clothing line.
One of the 10 biggest musical acts of the 2000s, Destiny's Child was formed by Beyonce Knowles' father Matthew when she was nine years old; she was sixteen when she, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett (pictured at the Soul Train Awards in 1999) landed a record deal in 1997. Three years later, just as their single "Say My Name" reached #1, the quartet splintered, with Roberson and Luckett being replaced by Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin (who was fired after five months). Still, Destiny's Child was unstoppable: as a trio (pictured at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000), they had their biggest hit ever with "Independent Woman Part 1." The group went on hiatus in 2001 to launch solo careers, then reunited from 2004 to 2005 for the album "Destiny Fulfilled."
There was never a doubt that Beyonce, 30, was the breakout star of Destiny's Child -- and not just because her dad was their manager! By the time the group broke up in 2005, the stunning singer was already a movie star with a #1 single ("Crazy in Love") and five solo Grammys. But her best was yet to come: in 2008, she created a dance sensation with "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," her biggest hit ever. That same year, she married her longtime boyfriend and collaborator, Jay-Z. Beyonce has now released four bestselling albums and is the second most nominated woman in Grammy history. In January 2012, following the most sensational pregnancy announcement ever, she gave birth to baby Blue Ivy Carter (pictured in January).
With Destiny's Child behind her, Kelly Rowland, 31, balances dual careers as an R and B artist and television personality. As a singer, she has had two Top 20 hits, both of them collaborations -- "Dilemma" with Nelly (2002) and "Motivation" with Lil Wayne (2011) -- and she (pictured in Las Vegas on Feb. 18) is currently working on her fourth album. Rowland was the original co-host of Bravo's "The Fashion Show" and is a judge on the U.K.'s "The X-Factor." In 2011, she also let the world in on the secret to her eternally toned tummy through the release of her aptly named exercise video, "Sexy Abs with Kelly Rowland."
Not to be confused with that other Michelle Williams, the third Destiny's Child singer (pictured in L.A. on March 16) kicked off her solo career by going back to her gospel music roots for "Heart 2 You" (2002) and "Do You Know" (2004). She soon began performing in Broadway musicals, starring in "Aida," "The Color Purple" and "Chicago." As a singer, Williams, 31, has now gone back to R and B, and seems open to a Destiny's Child reunion. "(We love) the fact that people are still asking and wondering," she told The Boombox in 2011. "We would have to talk about it."
All it takes is one word -- the title of their 1994 album, "CrazySexyCool" -- to sum up '90s superstars TLC. The Atlanta-based trio of (from left to right) Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas and rapper Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes burst onto the scene with their 1992 single "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg," which led to even bigger R and B hits like "Waterfalls" (1995) and "No Scrubs" (1999). Though they won four Grammys and made Billboard chart history, TLC was notorious for their dramatic personal lives (including Lopes' arrest for arson, Watkins' secret medical condition, a shocking bankruptcy and tons of in-fighting). In 2002, TLC came to a tragic end when Lopes died in a car crash in Honduras.
After Left Eye's death, T-Boz and Chilli, both 41, completed TLC's unfinished fourth album and played a farewell concert in 2003. Six years later, after a false start with the reality show "R U the Girl" (2005), the ladies began touring together again. They've also become reality TV personalities: Chilli on VH1's "What Chilli Wants" and T-Boz on the 2009 season of "The Celebrity Apprentice." That same year, T-Boz (who has sickle cell anemia) revealed that she'd recently battled a brain tumor. An official biopic of TLC -- arson and all! -- is currently in production for VH1, and the ladies are both involved in producing it.
Following in the footsteps of their famous musical families, Wilson Phillips created a harmony all their own. Daughters of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, Wendy (left) and Carnie Wilson (right) grew up in California alongside Chynna Phillips (center), whose parents are John and Michelle Phillips from The Mamas and The Papas. The ladies started out pursuing separate entertainment careers before forming a trio in the late 1980s. In 1990, their debut album, with its uplifting soft-rock anthem "Hold On," went multi-platinum and earned four Grammy nominations. But the group's success didn't hold on; their second album "Shadows and Light," released just two years later, failed to make a splash. Chynna announced she was working on a solo album, and by 1993, the group had fallen apart.
A decade after breaking up, Wilson Phillips reunited for their third studio album, "California," in 2003. In the interim, all three ladies pursued (unsuccessful) solo music careers, got married and had children. Chynna, 44, married Billy Baldwin and became a Christian. Carnie, 43, who has two daughters, joined the cast of half a dozen reality TV shows, had her own short-lived talk show, and became known for speaking openly about her two gastric bypass surgeries. The ladies made a surprising return to the spotlight thanks to the 2011 hit "Bridesmaids, "and recently released the album "Dedicated" made up of covers of their parents' music. On April 8, they premiered their TV Guide Network reality show "Wilson Phillips: Still Holding On." "The dynamics have always been exactly the same," says mother-of-four Wendy Wilson, 42, about the on-screen fighting. "We love each other no matter what. There's friction and there's fighting, but we fight like sisters."
Frequently compared to The Supremes, En Vogue combined the glamour of '60s girl groups with the powerful sound of a new generation. Formed in Oakland, Calif., in 1988, En Vogue -- made up of (from left to right) Dawn Robinson, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones, and Terry Ellis -- achieved instant success with their first single, "Hold On" in 1990. Their sophomore album, "Funky Divas" (1992), wasn't just an accurate description of the group -- it was a multi-platinum hit, with singles like "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" and "Free Your Mind." The quartet seemed like they were everywhere in their early-90s heyday -- from Diet Coke commercials to Sesame Street to Bill Clinton's inauguration.
Just like their harmonies, the three core members of En Vogue -- Cindy Herron- Braggs (center, left), Terry Ellis (center, right), and Maxine Jones (far right) -- have remained tight all these years. The group has never disbanded, though they did take a hiatus around 1995, when Ellis recorded her solo album "Southern Girl." The original fourth member, Dawn Robinson (far left), left the group during the recording of their third album in 1997, though she has returned periodically (here, the four are pictured in Miami on March 20, 2011); singers Amanda Cole and Rhona Bennett have taken her place at different points in time. If their Facebook updates are to be believed; En Vogue has been working on a new album since May 2011; meanwhile, they're touring the world as a trio.
Reality TV brought Danity Kane (pictured in 2006) together -- and eventually, tore them apart. During season 3 of MTV's "Making the Band," producer Sean "Diddy" Combs selected contestants (pictured from left to right) Aundrea Fimbres, Dawn Richard, Wanita "D. Woods" Woodgett, Aubrey O'Day, and Shannon Bex to become his first all-female group. Danity Kane's debut single, "Show Stopper," became a smash hit in 2006, and both of their albums went straight to #1. But in 2008, Combs became unhappy with Aubrey O'Day and D. Woods' efforts to pursue solo careers, as well as O'Day's oversexed image. He shocked their bandmates by firing them at the end of season 4. The girls were never replaced, and the group split up in 2009.
The break-out star of Danity Kane, Aubrey O'Day, 28, embraced her sex-symbol image, giving raunchy interviews and even posing for Playboy. In 2011, O'Day recorded her first solo album, documenting the process on the Oxygen show "All About Aubrey," which is scheduled for release this year. She is currently a contestant on season 12 of "Celebrity Apprentice" (here, she's pictured in her cast photo), and will probably be on reality TV for a long time to come. "I definitely love to be able to document my struggles, personally and professionally, to the world," she told That Grape Juice in 2011.
After being fired from Danity Kane, Wanita "D. Woods" Woodgett (pictured on June 24, 2011) founded her own label, Woodgrane Entertainment, where she works with her writing team, The Girls Club. As a solo artist, Woodgett, 27, has released a mixtape, "Lady in the Street," and an iTunes single, "Legalize Me" (2009), and plans to debut a web series of performance videos this year. Even though her dismissal from Danity Kane was a factor in the group falling apart, her bonds with former bandmates remain tight, as she told MTV: "The relationships that I had with the girls are basically the same. I'm closest with Aubrey. We talk the most."
Unlike the rest of her bandmates, Dawn Richard, 28, continues to work with Danity Kane's mentor, Sean "Diddy" Combs. In 2009, after doing some songwriting for Bad Boy Records, the New Orleans native (pictured on Feb. 10 in L.A.) joined Diddy in the rap trio Diddy-Dirty Money. Their 2010 concept album "Last Train to Paris" surpassed expectations by debuting on Billboard's Top 10. Richards is now working on a trio of solo albums, called "Goldenheart," "Blackheart" and "Redemptionheart." Her first EP, "Armor On," hit iTunes in March 2012.
Staying true to her roots, Fimbres (pictured in September 2010 in L.A.) collaborated with her former bandmate Aubrey O'Day on the song "Ego Trip," which may appear on O'Day's debut solo album. In March 2011, she appeared on Oxygen's "All About Aubrey," but it didn't end well: Fimbres, 28, backed out at the last minute from a reunion concert, leaving O'Day in tears. "She feels she no longer wants to be an artist," Aubrey explained to the cameras. "She changed her mind and quit." Fimbres still keeps up her Facebook page, where she recently posted photos of her appearance in the Playboy Halloween Fashion Show.
Former NBA cheerleader Shannon Bex, 32, decided to go country after the break-up of Danity Kane, working on solo material in Nashville. In 2011, she announced the formation of her new band, BEX. "It takes a country twist but doesn't escape the current sound… now it's time to show my other side!" she told MTV. Shannon (pictured on March 27, 2011 in Hollywood, Calif.) is married to a fellow professional dancer, former "Making the Band" castmate Ron Basada.
