The SWV world tour was a concert tour performed by the American pop/R&B group SWV

SWV

Sisters with Voices, better known as SWV, is an American female R&B trio from New York. Formed in 1990 as a gospel group, SWV became one of the most successful R&B groups of the 1990s. They had a series of hits, including "Weak", "Right Here/Human Nature", "I'm So Into You", and "You're the One"....

. In view and support of the It's About Time

It's About Time (SWV album)

*Initially issued without track 15, but was added to all subsequent CDs in April 1993*Copies of the album with the catalog number BMG 66074 contain "Right Here " , as the final track-Credits and personnel:* Coko...

and New Beginnings

New Beginnings

New Beginnings is an album by American jazz pianist Don Pullen recorded in 1988 for the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars stating "on New Beginnings pianist Don Pullen sets up fairly simple structures and then, after stating the theme, tosses...

albums , the stadium and arena tour ran in May 1996 to August 1996. It covered North America, Europe, Africa and some parts of Asia. Though on some of the tour spots, mostly Africa and Asia, they opened for Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown

Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...

 and Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

.

History

SWV went on worldwide tour for the second time after their previous year Weak Tour in the UK. SWV entertained full stadiums, arenas, parks, clubs and other forms of entertainment places. The tour cost more than 1,000,000 dollars because of some of the places SWV went to and whom they entertained. In the first two weeks of July, SWV opened for Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

 in Africa and Asia. Although some of SWV's tours were not sold out, most were. SWV had previously been given a Hollywood Star of Fame in Los Angeles, so they were all geared up for the tour. SWV were interviewed by many radio stations, news stations, magazines like People

People (magazine)

In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...

, Jet

Jet (magazine)

Jet is an American weekly marketed toward African-American readers, founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois...

, and many others while doing the tours. SWV met with the leaders of all the places they have went to, including the President of Angola with Michael Jackson.

Songs SWV performed

• "Right Here/Human Nature" ft. Michael Jackson
• "Weak"
• "I'm So Into You
  I'm So Into You
  "I'm So Into You" is a song by R&B female trio SWV. Released in late 1992 from their debut album, It's About Time, it became their first top-ten song, peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number two on the Billboard R&B singles chart. It went on to sell more than one...
  
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• "Anything"
• "Downtown"
• "Use Your Heart"
• "You're the One"
• "These Feelings"
• "That's What I Need"
• "There Will Never Be"
• "Black Pudd'n"
• "SWV in the House"
• "It's About You"
• "Think You're Gonna Like It"

Artist who Opened For SWV

• Xscape
  Xscape (band)
  Xscape, was a female American R&B group that originally started out as a quintet and then became a quartet. The group had a string of hit songs during the 1990s...
  
   (United States)
• Jade (UK)
• Destiny's Child
  Destiny's Child
  Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final line-up comprised lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1997 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors in their pre-teens under the name Girl's Tyme...
  
   (New York City, LA, Chicago and Houston)
• Bobby Brown
  Bobby Brown
  Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...
  
  
• Lokso (Japan)