New Edition to Hit the Stage in San Antonio at the AT&T Center in June

New Edition's 2012 reunion tour for their 30th anniversary celebrations is underway.  They will make a stop in San Antonio, Texas June 3rd at the AT&T Center.

The grown-up boy band, featuring Bobby Brown and Ronnie DeVoe, will be working on live dates, a book, movie and stage play as well as a new album next year (12) in a bid to have multiple products on the market in time for the 30th anniversary of the release of the group's first album Candy Girl in 2013.

The reunited group kicked off 2012 with a four-day New Year's weekend run of concerts in Highland, California and then the sextet, which also features Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant, hope to begin work on their first album of new material since 1996's Home Again.

New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men,Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync. The group recorded mostly as a quintet.

At the height of their early popularity in 1983, the group consisted of Ronnie DeVoe, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ralph Tresvant. Early hits included songs like 1983's "Candy Girl" and 1984's "Cool It Now" and "Mr. Telephone Man".^[1] Brown left in late 1985 to embark on a successful solo career. The group continued for a time with four members, but eventually recruited singer Johnny Gill to record their 1988 album Heart Break. The group went on hiatus in 1990, while its various members worked on side projects, such as the group Bell Biv Devoe. Gill and Tresvant also recorded successful solo albums.

All six members of the group reunited in 1996-1997 for the album Home Again, but during the ill-fated follow-up tour both Brown and Bivins quit the group, and the tour had to be canceled. Various reunions have occurred since, usually with the 1987-1990 lineup, though occasionally also including Bobby Brown. Their last studio release was 2004's One Love. As of 2010, two New Edition descendants were recording and touring: Bell Biv Devoe, andHeads of State, featuring Brown, Tresvant, and Gill.

On May 3, 2011 New Edition issued a press release on their official website announcing that all six members were reuniting as New Edition to kick off the 30th anniversary celebration of "Candy Girl" with their fans.