Mary J. Blige Tickets has this year unveiled her Good Morning Gorgeous Tour, which will see her performing with special guests.
Blige will start the concert series on September 17, 2021, in Greensboro, North Carolina, and will wrap up the tour on October 29, 2021, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The dynamic diva of R&B, Macy Gray, has lined up a brigade of special guests who will grace the stage to perform with her on some of the dates of the tour.
Jazmine Sullivan
The musical tour in support of the Good Morning Gorgeous album will have Jazmine Sullivan as the opening act for the first set of shows from September 17th through October 2nd. Sullivan is a Grammy winner, a R&B singer who, as mentioned earlier, has worked with Alicia Blige for a long time now. Her latest album, Heaux Tales, was one of the most praised R&B albums of 2021 based on critic reviews. Jazmine Sullivan will be a great addition to the tour for the first two weeks and is guaranteed to be a fan favorite.
Ella Mai
As for opening act for the tour between October 4th and October 16th, British singer Ella Mai will be present. Mai debuted on the music scene in 2018 with the song Boo'd Up, which quickly rose to the top in the genre of R&B. For this song, she was also able to get two Grammy nominations. Ella Mai only recently dropped her second studio album, Heart on My Sleeve," in May this year Establishing the new project on tour with Blige will be an added advantage by giving fans of the R&B legends a chance to enjoy her contemporary R&B sound.
Queen Naija
Queen Naija, the YouTube star turned R&B singer-songwriter, will be opening for Mary J Blige from the 18th October to 29th October 2018. Initially, Queen Naija attracted a vast number of viewers by sharing the footage of her everyday life on the channel subscribed by millions of people. She then transitioned to music in 2017 and has resonated with several popular music hits and recorded albums combining pop music, R & B, and soul music. The first album released by her is Misunderstood," released in 2020, which also got placed on the Billboard top ten list. On the second North American part of Mary Blige's tour, Queen Naija introduces something new and different, which will be particularly interesting for young listeners of R&B.
They said it: Blige Assembling Next Generation of R&B Asking these three relatively new artists to each secure certain slots on her tour, Blige is building the next wave of today's current R&B singers to her audiences as well as her headliners. Traveling with up-and-coming new school artists such as Jazmine Sullivan, Ella Mai, and Queen Naija shows Mary's commitment to supporting promising young women in the R&B/Soul genre, as well as performing some of her hits with her catalog of songs that span more than three decades and have aged like wine. Fans of soul and contemporary R&B would definitely have a special treat waiting for them with the special guests that Mary is set to bring with her on tour.
Mary J. Blige's Long Career: Some Background Information To be more precise, Mary J. Blige is a very special figure in the field of R&B music that has been popular in the last 30 years. She has released her debut album, What's the 411?" in 1992Blige has been christened the Queen of Hip Hop Soul because she infuses Hip Hop Soul with R&B music with hardly any hip hop samples. It is for this reason that she is even accredited for being one of the pioneers of that sort of music, which was so prevalent in the urban music scene at the beginning of the 1990s.
Always on the move, Mary J. Blige has made 13 studio albums and a greatest hits compilation to date. Her second album, My Life," released in 1994, is ranked among the all-time classics in the R&B genre. In that project, she penned and released songs about her own battle of alcoholism, depression, and abusive relationships with soulful instrumentals. It enriched the painter's experience and affected people on a profound level. The kind of heartfelt inspirational messages in songs that are characteristic of her work emanate from her raw and confessional work about rising from adversity, which has remained a major part of her music over three decades.
Mainstream Success Though she established herself with numerous R&B radio-friendly songs and critical acclaim in the beginning of her career, Blige also crossed over to pop arena more towards the middle of the decade. She managed to receive several Grammy Award nominations in R&B and soul, pop, rap, gospel, soundtracks, and various types of compilations.
Her 2001 hit single with rapper Ja Rule, titled Family Affair, resulted in her first chart-topper on the Hot 100 singles chart. It is especially notable for its sample of the disco tune He's the Greatest Dancer by Sister Sledge. It also earned Blige her first Grammy out of nine she has received in her music career now. She penned her autobiography, My Life, which catalogs her hardships, relationships, and the abuse she faced while rising to stardom.
She is also a successful actress who performed in Rock of Ages, Mudbound, and Respect, where she played Dinah Washington. She was nominated for Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in "Mudbound. And besides, the Sweet Thing singer has guested in numerous television shows throughout her career.
'Good morning, Gorgeous.' Her last album of new material was released in February, titled Good Morning Gorgeous." it marks her first collection since 2016. It involves songs by Blige with some of the other R&B & hip-hop's best contemporary producers and guests. Some numbers to be highlighted on the LP are Here With Me feat. H. E. R., "Rent Money" feat. Dave East, and the song Amazing feat. DJ Khaled.
The title of the album is derived from one of the songs, where Blige learnt to start speaking to herself positively and began to tell herself she was gorgeous™ while in front of the mirror. That journey to self-acceptance and love led her to title one of her albums, Good Morning Gorgeous." Joining the Good Morning Gorgeous tour after periods are Ella Mai and Queen Naija, while veteran R&B queen Mary J. Blige shares her experience and music with the younger generation through the tour and with Jazmine Sullivan, her friend who inspired her early on. It is to be one of the R&B highlight events that you can't afford to miss in the later part of the year.