Tour Schedule:
The Pacific Rim Tour was Whitney Houston's seventh concert tour, aimed to promote her 1996 multi-platinum album, The Preacher's Wife. The tour consisted of 10 stadium and arena dates in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia from May 5 to May 29, 1997.
Tour Map:
Opening Acts:
Bobby Brown (Hawaii)
Band:
Musical director / Bass guitar / Bass synthesizer – Rickey Minor
Keyboards – Bette Sussman
Trumpet – Raymond Brown
Keyboards – Wayne Linsey
Drums – Michael Baker
Percussion – Bashiri Johnson
Guitars – Paul Jackson Jr.
Saxophone, EWI – Gary Bias
Trombone – Reginald Young
Backing vocalists – Gary Houston, Pattie Howard, Sharlotte Gibson, Valerie Pinkston-Mayo
Dancers:
Carolyn Brown, Merlyn Mitchell, Shane Johnson, Saleema Mubaarak
Tour Management:
Tour manager – Tony Bulluck
Security:
Director of security – Alan Jacobs
Cancellations and rescheduled shows:
Melbourne, Australia – May 22, 1997
Cancelled due to throat infection.
Professional recordings/broadcasts:
A video snippet of "I Love the Lord" from the show at Tokyo Dome on May 14th was included in the 2018 documentary Whitney.