Andy Greene
View all posts by Andy Greene March 23, 2026
Salt-N-Pepa's Sandra Denton and Cheryl James perform during the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Theo Wargo/Getty Images Three of the most successful R&B acts of the 1990s — Salt-N-Pepa, TLC, and En Vogue — are joining forces for an epic summer tour that will take them to amphitheaters all across the United States.
“I feel like this is going to be the most fun touring experience I’ve ever had,” Cheryl “Salt” James says in a video announcing the tour. “And I feel like we’re going to feel the queens is in the building. We’ve earned this seat … This show is going to be crazy. We’re doing the whole mixtape vibe, coming in and out.”
The “mixtape vibe” is similar to what New Edition, Toni Braxton, and Boyz II Men are doing on their ongoing arena tour where nobody opens or closes, and they instead mash their sets together without break or intermission. That means fans can expect a set this summer that might go from “Shoop” to “Waterfalls” to “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)” in breakneck speed, as members of the three groups come and go from the stage.
After a period of estrangement preceded by a legal spat, Salt-N-Pepa have made peace with Spinderella, who will be part of the tour. Three of the four classic-era members of En Vogue (Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, and Maxine Jones) are on board for the tour. They haven’t worked with Dawn Robinson since 2011. And surviving TLC members Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas now tour as a duo. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes died in a 2002 car crash, and they’ve never replaced her. They often play videos of her during iconic Left Eye moments, like the “Waterfalls” rap.
“These ladies represent resilience and empowerment,” Ellis says in the tour announcement video. “To be a part of that is everything. They’re legends.”
Salt-N-Pepa had many hits in the Eighties, but the vast majority of songs in the show will be from the Nineties. “The music from the Nineties, it’s just…the lyrical content is great,” Chilli said in the video. “You can put on a song no matter how you’re feeling. Once you hit the 2000s, the lyrical content just changes. The beats are crazy, but it’s just different. And it’s crazy to see eight-year-olds sitting in the audience singing all of the songs.”
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The tour kicks off Aug. 15 in Franklin, Tennessee, and wraps up Oct. 11 in Concord, California. “Rehearsals are going to be all of July,” says Chilli. “We’re going to eat clean. We’re going to exercise and work out. We’re going to release eight hours a day, five days a week.”
