Aventura - Winter 2020 U.S. Tour

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Aventura Announce First U.S. Tour In 10 Years, Confirmed For Winter 2020

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The seven-day tour, running from February through March 2020, will take the bachata group to major arenas across the nation
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Dec 9, 2019 - 12:32 pm

Latin GRAMMY-nominated bachata group Aventura are returning to the stage next winter for a much-anticipated headlining U.S. tour, their first trek across America in 10 years. The seven-day tour, running from February through March 2020, will take the Latin pop legends to major arenas throughout the nation.

The forthcoming La Gira Inmortal, translated to The Immortal Tour, is named after Aventura's most recent track, "Inmortal," the group's first new single in 10 years. Released this past April, "Inmortal" debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart, while the band's greatest hits album, Lo Mejor De Aventura, was certified as the top-selling tropical album of 2019.

Most recently, Aventura reunited at a massive show headlined by lead vocalist and GRAMMY nominee Romeo Santos at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this past September, following a string of shows in New York City in 2016.

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Hailed as the Kings of Bachata, a Latin American genre rooted in the Dominican Republic, Aventura are widely considered one of the most successful Latin pop groups of all time and pioneers of the modern bachata sound. Formed in the Bronx in New York, the group is a family band comprised of Dominican-American artists Lenny, Henry, Max and Anthony "Romeo" Santos; the latter launched a successful solo career following a long stint as songwriter and lead singer for Aventura and received his first and only GRAMMY nomination as a solo artist for his 2011 debut album, Formula, Vol. 1.

After breaking into the global mainstream via their 2002 hit "Obsesión," featuring Judy Santos (no relation), Aventura has since released five studio albums. Their 2006 live album, K.O.B. Live, was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Tropical Album. In 2009, they became the first bachata act to perform at the White House, during President Barack Obama's first term.

The general on-sale for Aventura's 2020 U.S. tour begins Thursday, Dec. 12, at 10 a.m. local time via the Live Nation website. For more information and full tour routing, visit the band's official website.

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Alejandro Fernández

Alejandro Fernández performs at the 20th Latin GRAMMY Awards in 2019

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Alejandro Fernández Announces 2020 'Hecho En México' World Tour

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The 28-date trek, which takes the revered ranchera singer across North America and Europe, is named after his forthcoming 2020 album
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Feb 12, 2020 - 9:12 am

Mexican rancheras star and Latin pop singer Alejandro Fernández has announced dates for his Hecho En México World Tour. The 28-date trek, which kicks off this May and runs through December, will take the revered singer across North America and Europe and will include his debut shows in Toronto, Canada, London and Paris.

The newly added global tour dates are an extension of the initial leg of the Hecho En México trek, which he announced last November and runs across his native Mexico for multiple dates starting this month. 

The tour is named after his forthcoming album, Hecho En México, Spanish for "Made In Mexico," which releases this Friday (Feb. 14). The album, which features collaborations with Christian Nodal, Luis Carlos Monroy, Jorge Massias and Chico Elizalde with production by Áureo Baqueiro, sees Fernández returning to his mariachi and ranchera roots.

Alejandro Fernández is considered ranchera royalty. He is the son of ranchera icon Vicente Fernández, the latter of whom is widely known as El Rey De La Música Ranchera, or The King Of Ranchera Music, for his dominance in the traditional Mexican music genre. Alejandro is also the father of Alex Fernández, a rising ranchera singer. 

Last November, the Fernández clan stole the show at the 20th Latin GRAMMYs when the three of them performed live onstage together for the first time ever, delivering a moving performance spanning three generations of ranchera music and culture. 

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In 1997, Alejandro Fernández released his sixth album, Me Estoy Enamorando (I'm Falling In Love), which marked his departure from ranchera music and expansion into the wider Latin pop canon. The platinum-selling album topped the Latin Pop Albums and Top Latin Albums charts in the U.S. and received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Latin Pop Performance. Fernández received his most recent GRAMMY nomination, for Best Mexican-American Performance, for his 1999 album, Mi Verdad. He has also won two Latin GRAMMY Awards.

Tickets for Fernández's 2020 Hecho En México World Tour go on sale Friday, Feb. 14, at 9 a.m. local time. For more information and for the full tour routing, visit his official website.

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Chicago, Rick Springfield Announce Summer 2020 Tour

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Chicago And Rick Springfield Announce Summer 2020 Tour

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The two rock icons will tour amphitheaters across North America from June through August 2020
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Dec 2, 2019 - 2:59 pm

Two icons of rock are hitting the road. GRAMMY winners Chicago and Rick Springfield today (Dec. 2) announced plans for a major co-headlining tour next summer, running from June through August 2020. The 26-date trek will take the artists to amphitheaters across North America.

Following a recent performance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in November, Chicago returns to New York City this month for another holiday performance at this year's "Christmas In Rockefeller Center" special, airing Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 8 p.m. on NBC. Tune in to hear holiday tunes off the group's most recent album, Chicago Christmas (2019). In addition to 10 GRAMMY nominations, and one win for Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus for their 1976 song, "If You Leave Me Now," Chicago's 1969 album, Chicago Transit Authority, was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2014.

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Springfield is best known for his '80s classic "Jessie's Girl," which won for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male at the 1981 GRAMMYs. He's since received three additional GRAMMY nominations throughout the '80s, in addition to notching 17 U.S. Top 40 hits.

Tickets for the tour go on sale Friday, Dec. 6, at 10 a.m. local time via the Live Nation website.

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Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill 2020 Tour

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Alanis Morissette To Celebrate 25-Year Anniversary Of 'Jagged Little Pill' With 2020 Tour

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The seven-time GRAMMY-winning artist also teases her forthcoming 2020 album with a new song, “Reasons I Drink"
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Dec 2, 2019 - 1:13 pm

Alanis Morissette, the seven-time GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter, producer and artist, is gearing up for a busy 2020 with an upcoming North American tour in celebration of the 25-year anniversary of her seminal 1995 album, Jagged Little Pill. Produced by Live Nation, the 31-date North American trek, running next June through July, will feature support from GRAMMY nominees Garbage and Liz Phair.

Along with the tour announcement, Morissette has released a brand-new song, “Reasons I Drink," out today on Epiphany Music. Co-written by Morissette and Michael Farrell and produced by Alex Hope, the track will be featured on her forthcoming album, Such Pretty Forks In The Road, which is confirmed for release in May 2020. The album, her ninth full-length release overall, is her first original album since her 2012 project, Havoc And Bright Lights.

Ahead of the tour's launch, Morissette will debut a Broadway musical inspired by and named after Jagged Little Pill this month (Thursday, Dec. 5) at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City. The musical explores the themes and lyrics of its namesake album. "Jagged Little Pill," featuring lyrics and music by Morissette and six-time GRAMMY winner Glen Ballard and an original story by Academy Award-winning writer Diablo Cody, is directed by Tony winner Diane Paulu.

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Largely considered her breakthrough release, Jagged Little Pill is Morissette's third studio album, but her international debut, as her first two projects—Alanis (1991) and Now Is The Time (1992)—were only released in her native Canada. One of the best-selling albums of all time, Jagged Little Pill dominated the 1995 GRAMMYs, taking home four awards, including Album Of The Year, and an additional Song Of The Year nomination for album track, "You Oughta Know." (She was also nominated for Best New Artist that same year.) The breakout album track "Ironic" would go on to be nominated for Record Of The Year and Best Music Video, Short Form at the 1996 GRAMMYs, while "Jagged Little Pill, Live," a video chronicling Morissette's 1995-1996 world tour in support of the album, won the Best Long Form Music Video award at the 1997 GRAMMYs.

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The general on-sale for Alanis Morissette's upcoming 2020 tour begins Friday, Dec. 13, at 11am local time via the Live Nation website. For more information, visit Morissette's official website.

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The Zombies

Colin Blunstone of The Zombies performs in 2019

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The Zombies Announce Spring 2020 World Tour, Confirm New Album

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The U.K. rock legends are currently in the studio working on their first full-length since 2015's Still Got That Hunger
John Ochoa
GRAMMYs
Feb 14, 2020 - 1:20 pm

U.K. rock legends The Zombies have announced a spring 2020 world tour. The trek kicks off in late March in Miami, Fla., where the group will perform at sea as part of the Flower Power Cruise, and will then travel across the U.S. and Canada throughout April. In May, the band then heads to Europe for a run of multiple shows in their native England as well as gigs in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. 

In addition to the forthcoming tour, The Zombies have confirmed they are currently working on a new as yet untitled album, which will be their first full-length since 2015's Still Got That Hunger. The group verified the news in an Instagram post shared earlier this week (Feb. 10), which showed members of the band in the studio with the caption, "New album in the works."

Originally formed in 1962, The Zombies are best known for their classic songs "Tell Her No" (1965) and "Time Of The Season" (1968), the latter of which became a No. 3 hit in the U.S. and has since become one of the defining songs of the '60s rock and psychedelic era. 

Their 1964 debut single, "She's Not There," became a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and reached No. 12 in the UK Singles chart. The song was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2016.

In 2017, The Zombies visited the GRAMMY Museum to talk about recording "She's Not There" and delivered an intimate performance of the song.

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"It was our first time in a professional studio and it was thought to be very cool to record in the evenings," Zombies singer Colin Blunstone joked. "Unfortunately, the engineer… was absolutely, paralytically drunk. And he was also very aggressive. It's sort of ironic that having been in the business for 50 something years, in that first session I knew that, with this madman in the studio, the music business was not for me."

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The band recently shared a video of them performing "Time Of The Season" in Los Angeles in 2019. 

"It's now 51 years since 'Time of the Season' reached No. 1 on the U.S. single charts," Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent told Rolling Stone in an interview. "Unbelievably, it's a song that feels just as much a joy to play now as it did all those years ago!"

Following multiple nominations, including in 2018, The Zombies were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2019. 

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