Buju’s Overcomer Tour has reschedules 5 dates the artiste’s administration has introduced.
Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Inglewood, California, and Chicago have been rescheduled. No purpose was given for the postponements, however the assertion declared that, “The Overcomer Tour is on, and there will probably be no cancellations.”
The Overcomer Tour opens, as initially deliberate, on August 23 at Amerant Financial institution Area in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Atlanta, Georgia, and Hartford, Connecticut are scheduled for September.
The opposite dates in August are Tampa; Washington, DC; and Boston.
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The Overcomer Tour was introduced 48 hours after Buju Banton carried out to sold-out audiences at UBS Area in Elmont, New York, on July 13-14.
It’s the Grammy-winning artiste’s first trek of the United States since 2009’s Rasta Obtained Soul tour. The Lengthy Island gigs marked a triumphant return to that nation.
“They stated to me, you’ll by no means come again to america of America,” Banton advised the sold-out crowd at Lengthy Island’s UBS Area on the steamy night of July 14. “I stated to them, lets see what God will do.” Banton took the stage in New York for the primary time since 2008 and within the U.S. for the primary time since 2011, the 12 months that he was discovered responsible of federal drug crimes. He served seven years in a Georgia jail earlier than being launched and deported to his native Jamaica in 2018. Earlier this 12 months, he was granted a visa to return to America, and over the course of a mid-July weekend, he acquired a hero’s welcome with two again to again reveals on the 18,500-capacity venue.
Banton has recorded pop and dance songs, in addition to songs coping with sociopolitical matters. He launched early dancehall singles in 1988 however got here to prominence in 1992 with two albums, together with Mr. Point out, which turned the best-selling album in Jamaican historical past upon its launch. Banton signed with main label Mercury Information and launched Voice of Jamaica the next 12 months. By the mid-Nineties, Banton had transformed to the Rastafari religion, and his music undertook a extra religious tone. His 2010 album Earlier than the Daybreak gained Finest Reggae Album on the 53rd annual Grammy Awards.
