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Melanie C to DJ Closing Night Celebration for Sin City Classic Sports Festival
Spice Girl, DJ, singer, and community ally Melanie C will spin on stage at the Brooklyn Bowl during the closing party for the largest LGBTQ+ sports festival.
LOS ANGELES, December 13, 2024 – The Sin City Classic Sports Festival Presented by Lexus, the world’s largest LGBTQ+ sporting event, today announced that LGBTQ+ advocate & ally and pop superstar Melanie C will be the headlining DJ for the festival’s annual Closing Party. The 2025 Sin City Classic, hosted by The Greater Los Angeles Softball Association (GLASA), will take place January 16-20, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Closing Party takes place January 19 at the Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas on the LINQ Promenade.
“Melanie C has been an icon and advocate to the LGBTQ+ community since the launch of her career. We can’t imagine a better way to close out the largest LGBTQ+ sports festival in the world than by having Melanie C on stage while thousands of athletes, fans, and allies come together to dance the night away after a week packed with competition and camaraderie,” said Sin City Classic Co-Executive Director Dr. Jason Peplinski.
Melanie’s career started as she skyrocketed to fame after the iconic 1996 debut single ‘Wannabe’ topped the charts in 37 countries, and Spice Girls’ debut album Spice went on to sell more than 31 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album of all time by a female group. The girls went on to sell more than 85 million records, releasing three studio albums, 13 singles and winning a host of awards including a BRIT for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
Melanie’s first solo venture was her featuring on the hit single ‘When You’re Gone’ with Bryan Adams. As a solo artist, Melanie has achieved over 3 million album sales, two Number 1 singles, and six Top 10 singles, including the iconic hits ‘I Turn to You’ and ‘Never be the Same Again’ featuring the late Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopez. In 2005, her track ‘First Day of My Life’ was to become one of her biggest hits to date, selling over 400,000 copies in Germany alone. It also went on to chart at Number 1 in Spain, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, and Portugal where it helped to propel the album ‘Beautiful Intentions’ to double-platinum status and kept it at Number 1 for 9 weeks.
In 2019, Melanie’s Rainbow Flag was waiving as she was performing at Pride parades with the LGBTQ+ club collective Sink the Pink. From hosting a float in Sao Paulo – the first international artist ever invited to do so – and performing in New York’s Times Square for WorldPride’s closing party to storming everywhere from Stockholm, Santiago, Amsterdam, London, Cologne, Berlin, Brighton, Belfast, and Dublin, the tour proved pivotal to Melanie’s future plans. “Being a Spice Girl again was like a fairytale, and I loved every moment,” says Melanie, “but being on that float in Sao Paulo, with three million people out in the streets, was like nothing I’d ever experienced before. It was one of those highs you hope never to come down from.”
Held each January during the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, the Sin City Classic kicks off with the Opening Night Registration Party held at the Flamingo Las Vegas. Competitions and nightly social events then take place around the city, with the weekend culminating in the Closing Party.
GLASA created the Sin City Classic in 2008 as an LGBTQ+ softball tournament meant to provide a safe and competitive atmosphere for LGBTQ+ athletes. Over the past 16 years the tournament has grown to include 24 sports and approximately 10,000 athletes and fans. GLASA remains committed to creating the best experience possible for diverse roster of dedicated athletes who participate and the fans and allies to come to enjoy the festival.
The Sin City Classic is proudly hosted at the Flamingo Las Vegas. Additional sponsors include presenting sponsor, Lexus, as well as Caesar’s Entertainment, mistr, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority, ViiV Healthcare, GayVN, and Piranha Nightclub.
For more information and updates about the Sin City Classic or to register your team, please visit www.sincityclassic.org. Follow the Sin City Classic on social media on Facebook, Instagram, and/or X.
ABOUT GLASA
GLASA is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization that encourages and hosts the participation of LGBTQ individuals and their allies in organized sporting competitions.
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