JOHN LEGEND ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN ‘DARKNESS AND LIGHT’ ARENA TOUR & NEW SINGLE ‘SUREFIRE'

‘DARKNESS AND LIGHT’ TOUR TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 31ST MARCH

NEW ALBUM ‘DARKNESS AND LIGHT’ OUT NOW

Acclaimed, multi-platinum selling, Oscar, Golden Globe, and 10x Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter John Legend will return to Europe to embark on his biggest tour yet this September and October.

The ‘Darkness and Light’ tour will arrive in Europe for a 24-show jaunt of the continent, beginning in Glasgow, Scotland on September 8th before culminating in Lisbon, Portugal on October 14th.

The news of the tour comes as John announces ‘Surefire’ - the second single to be lifted from the album ‘Darkness and Light,’ which was released to critical acclaim in December 2016. ‘Surefire’ will follow the album’s lead single ‘Love Me Now’, which has garnered over 157,000,000 Spotify streams worldwide, with the official video being viewed over 88,000,000 times on YouTube. Since the release of ‘Darkness and Light,’ John Legend has co-executive produced and starred in the box office smash ‘La La Land,’ which has gone on to win seven Golden Globe Awards and six Academy Awards, and performed the title track to the recent remake of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ with Ariana Grande.

Friday 8th September - Glasgow The SSE Hydro, Scotland
Saturday 9th September – Newcastle Metro Radio Arena, England
Sunday 10th September - Nottingham Motorpoint Arena, England
Tuesday 12th September - London O2 Arena, England
Friday 15th September - Leeds First Direct Arena, England
Saturday 16th September - Manchester Arena, England
Sunday 17th September - Liverpool Echo Arena, England
Tuesday 19th September - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena, Wales
Wednesday 20th September - Birmingham Barclaycard Arena, England
Friday 22nd September - Amsterdam Ziggo Dome, Netherlands
Saturday 23rd September - Luxembourg Rockhal, Luxembourg
Sunday 24th September - Hamburg Mehr! Theater, Germany
Tuesday 26th September - Stockholm Ericsson Globe, Sweden
Wednesday 27th September - Oslo Spektrum, Norway
Thursday 28th September - Copenhagen Royal Arena, Denmark
Saturday 30th September - Berlin Columbiahalle, Germany
Sunday 1st October - Munich Zenith, Germany
Wednesday 4th October - Paris AccorHotels Arena, France
Thursday 5th October - Belgium Forest National, Brussels
Sunday 8th October - Cologne Palladium, Germany
Monday 9th October - Frankfurt Jahrunderthalle, Germany
Tuesday 10th October - Zurich Samsung Hall, Switzerland
Thursday 12th October - Barcelona Palau Saint Jordi, Spain
Saturday 14th October - Lisbon MEO Arena, Portugal

Tickets for all shows of John Legend’s ‘Darkness and Light’ tour, expect Barcelona, will be available from www.livenation.co.uk at 9am GMT on Friday 31st March. Tickets for the show in Barcelona, Spain will be available from www.livenation.co.uk at 9am GMT on Wednesday 5th April.

The new album ‘Darkness and Light’ is available now

ABOUT JOHN LEGEND
Ohio-born John Legend is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning, platinum-selling singer-songwriter.  His work has garnered him ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, the BET Award for Best New Artist and the special Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, among others.  A graduate of University of Pennsylvania where he studied English and African-American literature, Legend participated in a wide range of musical activities while in college. During the same period, Legend was introduced to Lauryn Hill, who hired him to play piano on her track "Everything Is Everything," and shortly thereafter he began to play shows around the Philadelphia area, eventually expanding his audience base to New York, Boston, Atlanta and Washington D.C. After college, Legend was introduced to then up-and-coming hip-hop artist Kanye West, who quickly signed Legend to his G.O.O.D. Music imprint and hired him to sing vocal hooks on some of his music. Legend started gaining momentum through a series of similar collaborations with established artists, adding vocals to an impressive list of chart-topping hits including West's "All of the Lights," Jay-Z's "Encore" and back-up vocals on Alicia Keys' 2003 song, "You Don't Know My Name." Legend’s debut album, Get Lifted, was released in December of 2004 through Columbia Records. The critically acclaimed album spawned the artist's first hit single, “Ordinary People,” and scored Legend multiple Grammy Awards in 2006, including Best R&B Album, Best New Artist and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. The follow up was 2006’s platinum-selling Once Again, which brought Legend another Grammy, Best Male R&B Performance, for his single “Heaven,” and included collaborations with Kanye West, will.i.am and Raphael Saadiq. Legend’s next release was 2008’s Evolver, led by the hit single "Green Light" featuring Andre 3000. His 2010 collaboration with the Roots, Wake Up, won the Grammy for Best R&B Album a year later. Legend’s highly acclaimed fourth and most current studio album Love In the Future, features  “All of Me,” Legend’s highest selling and charting song to date, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on both Mainstream Top 40 and Rhythmic charts. Legend won his first Academy Award, first Golden Globe Award, a Grammy award, and a Critic’s Choice Award for his song “Glory,” that he wrote and performed with Common, for the film SELMA.

Throughout his career, Legend has worked to make a difference in the lives of others. In 2007, he launched the Show Me Campaign (ShowMeCampaign.org), an initiative that focuses on education as a key to break the cycle of poverty. The 2010 BET Humanitarian of the Year award, the 2009 CARE Humanitarian Award for Global Change, the 2009 Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award from Africare and the 2011 Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year Award recognize Legend's efforts and leadership in this arena. John sits on the boards of The Education Equality Project, Teach for America, Stand for Children and the Harlem Village Academies and co-chairs the Harlem Village Academies’ National Leadership Board. Additionally, Legend supports LRNG, a movement dedicated to inspiring innovation in the learning process to one that better reflects the world we live in today. In 2015 Legend initiated the #freeAmerica campaign, designed to change the national conversation of our country’s misguided policies and to make a change in America’s criminal justice system.

Legend also serves as one of the principles for Get Lifted Film Co., a film and television production company based in Los Angeles. Get Lifted Film Co. serves as Executive Producers on the HBO documentary “Southern Rites,” Pop Network docu-series “Sing it On”, and WGN America’s series “Underground." Additionally, Get Lifted Film Co. has worked on several films such as “Southside With You” and “La La Land.” Along with his executive producing credit on “La La Land,” Legend appears in the film and contributed to its soundtrack with the original song “Start a Fire.”

March 27, 2017 5:09am ET by Edge Publicity  

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