Today K. Michelle and Azealia Banks announced they will be embarking on a very special 20-date tour across North America this fall. The co-headlining tour presented by CENTIC and BET will stop at the Fox Theatre on Friday, September 18 at 8 p.m. Both artists will be performing tracks from their current albums - K. Michelle's Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart and Azealia Banks' Broke With Expensive Taste - as well as fan favorites from previous releases.
Tickets ($35, $55 and $75) go on sale Friday, July 24 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at OlympiaEntertainment.com, LiveNation.com, The
Fox Theatre and
Joe Louis Arena box offices, Hockeytown Authentics in Troy (without service charge) at all Ticketmaster locations and Ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets by phone, call
(800) 745-3000. For additional information, call
(313) 471-6611.
"Centric and BET are excited to sponsor
K. Michelle and
Azealia Banks on tour," said Constance Orlando, Senior Vice President of Specials, Music and News for BET Networks. "Partnering with these bold and authentic female artists aligns perfectly with Centric's position as the first network designed for Black women."
K. Michelle's debut album, 2013's Rebellious Soul [Atlantic Records], flipped the script for R&B and enjoyed staggering success in the process. Arriving at #1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart and #2 on the Top 200, it made history as it became the highest Top 200 entry for a female R&B singer's debut since 2001. She also solidified her place amongst music's elite, garnering a Soul Train Award for "Best New Artist" and an NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding New Artist." Alongside shooting the second season of her highly rated VH1 docuseries, K.Michelle: My Life, her sophomore album Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart debuted at #2 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Chart and #6 on the Billboard 200, making it the top debut of 2014 for an R&B artist. Billboard named the album one of 2014's Best R&B records, while
Complex proclaimed, "K. Michelle is leaps and bounds ahead of many of her peers." The Associated Press, Billboard, and Rolling Stone have all named Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart as one of the best R&B albums of 2014.
Azealia Banks first entered the scene with her hit debut single 212 in 2012, since then she has gone on to release her critically acclaimed debut album Broke With Expensive Taste in 2014 and has performed in front of thousands, including appearances at Coachella
Festival and sold out shows across the world. Recently Banks' completed filming her first starring role in major motion picture film, and is currently touring across Europe. Broke With Expensive Taste was hailed as one of the best albums of 2014 by The New York Times, Pitchfork, TIME Magazine and Rolling Stone and has reached #1 on the U.S iTunes Hip Hop Charts, #3 in the U.S Album Charts (right behind
Taylor Swift and One Direction), #1 in the U.K iTunes Alternative Charts, # 6 in U.K iTunes Album Charts, #1 in the Canadian iTunes Hip Hop Charts and #4 in the Canadian iTunes Album Charts.
