Today, Nigerian singer, songwriter, and actress Tiwa Savage announced her 2023 North American tour. Produced by Live Nation and Duke Concept, the 10-city tour kicks off on August 24 at The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Washington, making stops across North America, Toronto, Atlanta, Dallas and more before wrapping up in Los Angeles at Belasco on September 17.
Tiwa Savage is a resilient force within Africa’s ever-growing music and entertainment industry. While conquering the charts in her home country of Nigeria and becoming one of the most recognisable faces in the popular Afrobeats scene, Tiwa has also managed to carve a career as a reputable songwriter for some of today’s biggest and most successful musicians. In addition, she is currently the most followed African female on social media. In November 2018, she was crowned Best African Act by the MTV European Music Awards and made history as the first female to win the accolade. In the same year, Tiwa became the first African female to sell out London’s IndigO2 and she was handpicked by Coldplay’s lead singer Chris Martin to perform alongside Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and Jay Z live at the Global Citizen Festival in Johannesburg to an 70,000 strong audience and millions across the globe. In 2019, she made history again, by becoming the first female African artist to play at Wireless music festival in London. Later that year, she signed an exclusive recording contract with Universal Records and in September released her first global single titled ’49-99’ under Motown Records.
The singer, songwriter, philanthropist and fashion icon was named one of the world’s top 100 inspirational women in fashion for US style bible Vogue magazine and was chosen by Italian fashion giants Iceberg to perform during their spring/summer 2020 fashion show in Milan. In May 2020 Tiwa Savage, made history once again by gracing the cover of Billboard Magazine’s first issue devoted entirely to Africa. She featured alongside Afrobeat superstars Davido and Mr Eazi. Away from her successes in music, Savage has begun to take small steps into the world of acting. In 2011 she co-hosted the second season of Nigerian Idol and appeared in the stage version of ‘For Coloured Girls’ alongside Nollywood stars Joke Silva and Ireti Doyle. In 2013, she appeared in the third season of MTV’s Shuga playing Sade Banjo, which saw her stepping into a role that wasn’t specifically involved with music. “I’d like to do more acting but I’ve held back on that a little because that’s a little too predictable. It’s about timing and finding the right role but I do think I have the knack for acting.”
2023 TOUR DATES:
Thu Aug 24 – Washington, DC – The Theater at MGM National Harbor
Fri Aug 25th – New York, NY – Apollo Theater*
Tue Aug 29 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY
Thu Aug 31 – Boston, MA – Big Night Live
Sat Sep 02 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues – Chicago
Mon Sep 04 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
Thu Sep 07 – Houston, TX – House of Blues – Houston
Sat Sep 09 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues – Dallas
Thu Sep 14 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Sun Sep 17 – Los Angeles, CA – Belasco
*Not A Live Nation Date
