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Destiny's Child Reborn
06/24/2004 7:45 PM, E! Online
Julie Keller
Destiny's Child is coming off the shelf.
After a two-year hiatus, the bootylicious Grammy-winning R&B trio is
already recording a new album has just announced their first live gig
since 2002.
The troika of Beyonc Knowles, Kelly
Rowland and Michelle Williams are planning to hit the stage in Los
Angeles in September to preview songs from their forthcoming album. That
concert will be taped, and one of tunes will in turn be featured on
Pepsi's Play for a Billion game show airing Sept. 12 on ABC.
"We are really looking forward to getting back on stage
and performing together as a group," said Knowles, the trio's most
prominent member, who has found huge success as a solo artist, actress
and, yes, Pepsi pitchwoman, in a statement Thursday. "The Pepsi Play
for a Billion show is a great place to share our new music with the
millions of viewers who will tune-in to see if someone wins that billion
dollar prize."
Pepsi's Play for a Billion,
hosted by Damon Wayans, is a game show offering one lucky Pepsi drinker
the chance at a potential $1 billion grand prize awarded live on TV.
The Destiny divas' sixth album will hit record racks in
November, followed by a tour. It will be the official follow-up to
2001's Survivor , which sold more than 8 million copies and earned
the group a Grammy for the hit title track.
Back in
December 2001, Knowles told E! that, after four albums in four years,
Destiny's Child needed a break. "I think the great thing about us doing
this is we will all have to develop individually," she said.
As independent women, the ladies of Destiny's Child did
themselves proud.
During the hiatus, Beyonc was a
multimedia monster. She starred in two feature films, Austin Powers
in Goldmember and The Fighting Temptations, won a
record-tying five Grammys for her multiplatinum solo debut,
Dangerously in Love, headlined a tour with Missy Elliott and
Alicia Keys, got her own perfume, signed on as a Pepsi pitchperson
and is readying her own fashion line.
Her cousin
Rowland, meanwhile, released her own Grammy-nominated solo debut,
Simply Deep, starred in the horror flick Freddy vs. Jason,
had guest stints on NBC's American Dreams and UPN's Eve
and became engaged to pro football player Roy Williams.
Michelle Williams, meanwhile, released two solo gospel
albums, Heart to Yours and
Do You Know, and starred
in the Broadway production of Aida.
Although
they each enjoyed solo success and despite rumors to the contrary, the
bandmates always intended to reform at some point.
When asked when they would regroup in 2001, Rowland said, "You know how
the Beatles broke off, they all did their solo projects and they came
back together and they were even stronger."
That's
not quite how it worked, Kelly, but we get the idea.
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