Viva Forever cover Shannon King

LYRICS

Do you still remember how we used to be?

Feeling together, believing whatever

My love has said to me

Both of us were dreamers

Young love in the sun

Felt like my savior, my spirit I gave you

We'd only just begun

Hasta mañana, always be mine

Viva forever, I'll be waiting

Everlasting, like the sun

Live forever, for the moment

Ever searching for the one

Yes, I still remember every whispered word

The touch of your skin, giving life from within

Like a love song never heard

Slippin' through our fingers, like the sands of time

Promises made, every memory saved

As reflections in my mind

Hasta mañana, always be mine

Viva forever, I'll be waiting

Everlasting, like the sun

Live forever, for the moment

Ever searching for the one

Back where I belong now, was it just a dream?

Feelings unfold, they will never be sold

And the secret's safe with me

Hasta mañana, always be mine

Viva forever (viva forever), I'll be waiting (I'll be waiting)

Everlasting (everlasting), like the sun (like the sun)

Live forever (live forever), for the moment (for the moment)

Ever searching (ever searching) for the one (for the one)

Viva forever, I'll be waiting (I'll be waiting)

Everlasting, like the sun

Live forever (live forever), for the moment

Ever searching for the one

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Richard Frederick Stannard / Matthew Paul Rowbottom / Melanie Janine Brown / Victoria Caroline Beckham / Geri Halliwell / Emma Lee Bunton / Melanie Chisholm

Viva Forever lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Peermusic Publishing

About the Spice Girls: "The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. The group comprises Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B ("Scary Spice"), Melanie Chisholm, Mel C ("Sporty Spice"), Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"), Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"), and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice"). In 1996, Top of the Pops magazine gave each member of the group aliases, which were adopted by the group and media. With their "girl power" mantra, the Spice Girls were pop culture icons of the 1990s.[1][2] Time called them "arguably the most recognizable face" of Cool Britannia, the mid-1990s celebration of youth culture in the UK.[3] They are cited as part of the Second British Invasion of the US.[4]

The Spice Girls were signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single "Wannabe" in 1996; it hit number one in 37 countries[5][6] and commenced their global success. Their debut album Spice (1996) sold more than 23 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in history.[7] Their follow-up album, Spiceworld (1997), was also a commercial success, selling over 13 million copies worldwide.[8] In November 2000, the group released Forever, which was their only album without Halliwell. In January 2001, the group unofficially announced that they were beginning an indefinite hiatus and would be concentrating on their solo careers in regard to their foreseeable future, although they pointed out that the group were not splitting.

Measures of the Spice Girls' success include international record sales, vast merchandising enterprises, iconic symbolism such as Halliwell's Union Jack dress representing "girl power", a film, Spice World (1997), and two reunion tours, 2007–2008 and 2019. Under the guidance of their mentor and manager Simon Fuller, the group embraced merchandising and became a regular feature of the British and global press. The group became one of the most successful marketing engines ever,[9] earning up to $75 million per year,[10] with their global gross income estimated at $500–800 million by May 1998.[9]

The Spice Girls have sold 85 million records worldwide, making them the best-selling girl group of all time, one of the best-selling artists, and the biggest British pop success since the Beatles.[11][12][13] The group have received a number of awards including five Brit Awards, three American Music Awards, three MTV Europe Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award and three World Music Awards. In 2000, they received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. According to Rolling Stone journalist and biographer David Sinclair, "Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh, and Sporty were the most widely recognised group of individuals since John, Paul, George, and Ringo".[14]

In the mid-1990s, relatives Bob and Chris Herbert of Heart Management decided to create a girl group to compete with popular boy bands, such as Take That and East 17, which dominated the pop music scene at the time.[16] In February 1994, together with financier Chic Murphy, they placed an advertisement in the trade magazine The Stage asking for singers to audition for an all-female pop band at Danceworks studios.[16] Approximately 400 women attended the audition, during which they were placed in groups of 10 and danced a routine to "Stay" by Eternal, followed by solo auditions in which they were asked to perform songs of their own choosing. After several weeks of deliberation, Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Michelle Stephenson were among 12 women chosen to a second round of auditions in April; Geri Halliwell also attended the second audition, despite missing the first.[16]

A week after the second audition, the women were asked to attend a recall at Nomis Studios in Shepherds Bush, performing "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" on their own and in a group. During the session, Adams, Brown, Chisholm, Halliwell and Stephenson were selected for a band initially named "Touch".[16] The group moved to a house in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and spent most of 1994 practising songs which had been written for them by Bob Herbert's long-time associates John Thirkell and Erwin Keiles.[17] During the first two months, they worked on demos at South Hill Park Recording Studios in Bracknell with producer/studio owner Michael Sparkes and songwriter/arranger Tim Hawes. According to Stephenson, the material the group was given was "very, very young pop";[18] one of the songs they recorded, "Sugar and Spice", would be the source of their final band name. They also worked on various dance routines at the Trinity Studios in Knaphill, near Woking, Surrey. A few months into the training period, Stephenson was fired from the group and replaced with Emma Bunton.[19] It was also during this time that Halliwell came up with the band name Spice.[16]

The group felt insecure about the lack of a contract and was frustrated by the direction in which Heart Management was steering them. In October 1994, armed with a catalogue of demos and dance routines, they began touring management agencies. They persuaded Bob Herbert to set up a showcase performance for the group in front of industry writers, producers and A&R men in December 1994 at the Nomis Studios, where they received an "overwhelmingly positive" reaction.[20] Due to the large interest in the group, the Herberts quickly set about creating a binding contract for them. Encouraged by the reaction they had received at the Nomis showcase, all five members delayed signing contracts on legal advice from, among others, Adams's father.[21]

In March 1995, the group parted from Heart Management due to their frustration with the company's unwillingness to listen to their visions and ideas. To ensure they kept control of their own work, they allegedly stole the master recordings of their discography from the management offices.[21][22] That same day, the group tracked down Sheffield-based producer Eliot Kennedy, who had been present at the showcase, and persuaded him to work with them. They were introduced to record producers Absolute, who in turn brought them to the attention of Simon Fuller of 19 Entertainment, who signed them to his company in March 1995. During the summer of that year, the group toured record labels in London and Los Angeles with Fuller, signing a deal with Virgin Records in September 1995. Their name was changed to Spice Girls, as a rappers already using the name "Spice".[16] From this point on until the summer of 1996, the group continued to write and record tracks for their debut album while extensively touring the west coast of the US, where they signed a publishing deal with Windswept Pacific.[21]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Girls).