May 15—Tokyo, Japan: World-renowned musician, actor and humanitarian MIYAVI is returning to Europe and China, respectively. The artist’s latest tour will kick off in Warsaw, Poland and continue across 9-dates in Europe before a short hiatus then continuing in Beijing, China. The 14-date outing titled Return of the Samurai Guitarist: 20th & Beyond Tour 2023 is MIYAVI’s first tour in Europe and China since 2019. The tour will feature performances across MIYAVI’s wide-ranging catalog as the artist continues to celebrate his 20th anniversary, plus fans can expect sneak previews from new material. Tickets go on sale May 22nd and can be purchased at www.miyavi.com.
To commemorate the new tour dates, MIYAVI has partnered with Album Trading Cards to create a limited number of unique collectible trading cards that can only be purchased at each tour stop. Return of the Samurai Guitarist tour is an extension of MIYAVI’s successful 21-date U.S. tour in late-2022.
MIYAVI has also announced an additional date for the now two-city Japan Tour "20th Beyond Japan" in Osaka, before continuing on to Europe and China. Upcoming live dates:
JUL 07 - São Paulo (ASEAN Music Festival)
20th & Beyond Japan Tour
SEP 1 - Osaka, Japan
SEP 18 - Tokyo, Japan
Return of the Samurai Guitarist Tour
SEP 21 - Warsaw, Poland
GA https://goout.net/pl/bilety/miyavi/lwus
VIP UPGRADE: https://shop.kineticvibe.net/events/miyavi-vip-ticket-upgrade-in-warsaw
SEP 23 - Bucharest, Romania
GA https://www.vivabilet.ro/bilete/muzica/miyavi/
SEP 24 - Bratislava, Slovakia
GA + VIP https://shop.kineticvibe.net/events/miyavi-return-of-the-samurai-guitarist-20th-beyond-tour-2023-in-bratislava
SEP 26 - Prague, Czech Republic
GA + VIP https://shop.kineticvibe.net/events/miyavi-return-of-the-samurai-guitarist-20th-beyond-tour-2023-in-prague
SEP 27 - Berlin, Germany
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SEP 28 - Bochum, Germany
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OCT 01 - Paris, France
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OCT 02 - London, England
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OCT 04 - Milan, Italy
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OCT 13 - Beijing, China
OCT 15 - Chengdu, China
OCT 18 - Nanjing, China
OCT 20 - Shanghai, China
OCT 22 - Guangzhou, China
In more exciting news for MIYAVI fans: commemorating his 20th anniversary year, a new official MIYAVI fan club has just opened today. The members will have early access to purchase tickets for the MIYAVI concerts in Japan. Available at www.japan.miyavi.com
ABOUT MIYAVI
MIYAVI is a musician, actor, and philanthropist, bridging cultures across the globe with his music and message. His unique style of guitar playing has taken him on 8 world tours in over 30 countries. Fans refer to MIYAVI as the “Samurai Guitarist.” He has released 13 studio albums. In September 2021, MIYAVI released the album titled Imaginary, which coincided with a co-starring role in the Netflix film KATE and earlier in the year he served as judge on Japan’s version of The Masked Singer, airing on Amazon.
MIYAVI previously released 2019’s NO SLEEP TILL TOKYO, kicked off by a concert at Los Angeles Dodgers Stadium followed by the 2020 release of Holy Nights. MIYAVI made his big screen debut in the Oscar-nominated film Unbroken. He has since appeared in the Emmy Winning animated series ARCANE, the 2017 blockbuster Kong: Skull Island and the live-action adaptation of the popular manga Bleach. His recent filmography also includes the films Stray (2019) and Maleficent 2 (2020). As a brand ambassador, MIYAVI has appeared as the face of Beats headphones in Japan and on billboards worldwide in Moncler’s Beyond campaign. MIYAVI has also appeared in global ad campaigns for American Airlines, Golden State Warriors, Dell Computers and McLaren. In 2021, MIYAVI released a signature Telecaster with Fender guitars. He served as the face of Gucci Japan appearing in Gucci's Off the Grid campaign. MIYAVI has also walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week 2018, modeling designer Yohji Yamamoto’s Y-3 collection and for the brand ADEAM.
For press inquiries contact:
Japan: info@j-glam.net
EU: press@kineticvibe.net
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February 4, 2023 - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom - Doors 7PM, Show 8PM - TICKETS
February 10, 2023 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium - Doors 7PM, Show 8PM - TICKETS
Watch the BTS video below:
A new single titled "Futurism," will be released on June 17 under the new partnership.
“Futurism" is full of MIYAVI's signature heavy guitar sound and dynamism, with lyrics that touch on the artist’s futuristic view of the world.
The track is also featured in a new commercial for "Expand Your Youniverse," a global advertising campaign for Dell Technologies "Dell XPS" series of notebook computers. The campaign is based on the theme of "Expanding Your Youniverse through Technology," and Dell has collaborated with a variety of creators, including filmmaker Yara Shahidi, and the new commercial featuring MIYAVI himself is scheduled to roll out in more than eight countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan, from June 20, 2022.
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The film premiers on September 10, 2021. Watch the first trailer here:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 8—Los Angeles, CA: World-renown musician, actor and humanitarian MIYAVI will return to North America for a 19-date tour kicking off in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on September 30 and wrapping up in Atlanta on Halloween Night. The tour is MIYAVI’s first tour in North America since 2019 and will feature performances from last year’s Holy Nights album. Tickets go on sale June 11 and can be purchased at www.miyavi.com.
MIYAVI’s voyage to the U.S. will serve as a homecoming for an artist who resides part-time in Los Angeles and the other in Tokyo, but has been stationed in Japan since the pandemic. Full tour dates:
9/30 - Calgary (MaCewan Ballroom)
10/2 - Vancouver (Imperial)
10/4 - Seattle (The Crocodile)
10/5 - San Francisco (Great American Music Hall)
10/8 - Los Angeles (El Rey Theatres)
10/9 - Mesa (Nile Theater)
10/11 - Las Vegas (House of Blues)
10/13 - Salt Lake City (Metro Music Hall)
10/14 - Denver (Marquis Theatre)
10/16 - Austin (Come and Take It Live)
10/17 - Dallas (Trees)
10/20 - Chicago (Cobra Lounge)
10/22 - Pittsburgh (Thunderbird)
10/23 - Toronto (The Opera House)
10/25 - Montreal (Le National)
10/27 - New York (Sony Hall)
10/28 - Boston (The Paradise Rock Club)
10/29 - Washington D.C. (State Theatre)
10/31 - Atlanta (The Masquerade)
ABOUT MIYAVI
MIYAVI is a musician, actor, and philanthropist, bridging cultures across the globe with his music and message. His unique style of guitar playing has taken him on 8 world tours in over 30 countries. Fans refer to MIYAVI as the “Samurai Guitarist.” In 2020, MIYAVI partnered with Amazon Music to produce the groundbreaking live stream experience MIYAVI Virtual 5.0: Synthesis, captured live in Unreal Engine. He is currently the face of Gucci Japan and has served as a brand ambassador for American Airlines, Fender Guitars, BMW, Rakuten, Beats, Moncler and for his own branded beverage MIYAVI Sake.
As an actor, MIYAVI made his big screen debut in the Oscar nominated film Unbroken and has since appeared in the 2017 blockbuster Kong: Skull Island, the live-action adaptation of the popular manga Bleach, and the Maleficent 2 sequel (2019).
MIYAVI also continues his important work as a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, visiting refugee camps in Colombia, Kenya, Lebanon, Thailand and Bangladesh, and performing at the United Nations in New York, spreading the message of the refugee crisis around the world.
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Fans can look forward to an album written and recorded in MIYAVI's signature style while also introducing some fresh sounds as only he can. Holy Nights is comprised of new original material, cover songs and rearrangements of classic MIYAVI tracks that fans will recognize from his live show.
Physical compact discs of Holy Nights will be available in three editions. Limited Edition “A” will include a live concert DVD from MIYAVI's No Sleep Till Tokyo 2019 tour filmed during his show at Zepp Diver City in Tokyo. Version Limited Edition “B” will come with a special documentary DVD also filmed during MIYAVI's 2019 tour. Fans that purchase Limited Edition copies will also receive a collectible Holy Nights clutch bag with an original logo commemorating the release of the album!
Artist Photo by: Driely S.
Full Details Below:
【MIYAVIコメント】
[省略]
MIYAVI New Album - Holy Nights
2020/4/22 (Wed) Release
【Limited Edition “A”】
(CD+DVD)
TYCT-69171 / ¥6,000+tax
◇CD
Tracks: TBD
◇DVD
MIYAVI "NO SLEEP TILL TOKYO" World Tour 2019 JAPAN at Zepp Diver City (recorded on 2019/12/18 (Wed))
【Limited Edition “B”】
(CD+DVD)
TYCT-69172 / ¥6,000+tax
◇CD
Tracks: TBD
◇DVD
MIYAVI "NO SLEEP TILL TOKYO" World Tour 2019 - Documentary Video
【Standard Edition】
(CD)
TYCT-60158 / ¥2,800+tax
◇CD
Tracks: TBD
【UNIVERSAL MUSIC STORE Limited Edition】
(Standard Edition + Clutch Bag)
D2CE-5084 / ¥8,000+tax
https://store.universal-music.co.jp/product/d2ce5084/
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— MIYAVI (@MIYAVI_OFFICIAL) October 29, 2019
Read Billboard.com's full write up here and watch MIYAVI's full performance of the anthem here:
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ABOUT BETTY WHO
Casting a striking presence as a performer, emanating confidence as a writer, and inspiring as an independent force, Australia-born and Los Angeles-based pop star Betty Who has quietly elevated herself to a worldwide phenomenon on her own terms. Acclaimed by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Buzzfeed, Elle Magazine, and more, Betty’s sophomore album, The Valley, yielded a string of international hits, including “I Love You Always Forever” certified double-platinum in Australia and “Human Touch.” Total Spotify streams exceed 150 million as she regularly averages over 3.3 million monthly listeners on the platform. Beyond countless sold out headline tours, she’s delivered knockout television appearances on The Today Show, Late Night With Seth Meyers, The View, and many more aside. Betty’s commitment to charity, health, and wellness matches her passion for music. She has given performances to benefit UNICEF, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, The Trevor Project, Human Rights Campaign, and many more. She joined forces with Lululemon and Soul Cycle to launch the acoustic “Beats Per Moment” tour, ran a Nike marathon on the entertainment team, and partnered with a personal favorite workout app, Aaptiv, for playlisting.
ABOUT RAC
It’s been 10 years since Andre Anjos started RAC in his dorm room remixing tracks for late-aughts artists and labels while honing his craft as a songwriter playing the college circuit with his band.
Now, with over 200 remixes to his name – including a 2017 Grammy win for his take on Bob Moses’ “Tearing Me Up,” making him the first Portuguese artist to win a Grammy – Anjos’ is re-directing RAC to songwriting, “my first passion,” he says, with EGO, a stunning, 60-minute collection of 14 songs featuring collaborations with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, Vampire Weekend’s Rostam, MNDR, St. Lucia, KNA and Joywave among others.
EGO is RAC’s first artist album since 2014’s Strangers, and with its lush, nuanced indie-electronic production, it’s Andre’s most ambitious, cohesive and personal work to date. As he’s the first to admit, it chronicles his organic progression beyond the more dance floor-oriented.
Growing up in Portugal in a pre-internet world, Anjos was another kid with a guitar playing along to Nirvana records and recording songs in his bedroom on his computer. After moving to the US to attend Greenville College outside St. Louis, he realized the potential for applying his own songwriting sensibilities to other artists’ work when The Shins used his remix of “Sleeping Lessons” as the B-side to the single’s Australian release.
“RAC started as ‘Remix Artist Collective’ in my dorm room in 2007. I called it a ‘collective’ but it was pretty much me and two other guys I knew from the internet. The ‘collective’ thing was always me trying to make it sound bigger than it was,” he says. Irony being, it didn’t take long for RAC to get bigger on its own – or his own – with Anjos’ (now fully a solo project) – reworking tracks by Phoenix, Tegan and Sara, Foster The People, Lana Del Rey, New Order, Bob Marley and more.
By 2011, Andre had decided RAC was ready to craft its own tracks, beginning with the massive single “Hollywood,” featuring Penguin Prison’s Chris Glover, and culminating with 2014’s Strangers album, which included the indie club favorite “Let Go,” featuring MNDR and Kele from Bloc Party. “Still something was missing. “I felt a little like I got lost trying to please people,” he says.
Which is why with EGO, Andre says it was so important to make the record he wanted to make and not necessarily the one he was expected to make.
“‘The word ‘ego’ can have a negative connotation, but I think of it as an exploration of self,” he explains. “The album is really me figuring out who I am as an artist; I felt free to do whatever.”
Recorded between his home studio in Portland and sessions in LA, EGO shimmers with an immediacy and urgency, even at its most solemn and introspective, as on “Heavy,” his collaboration with former RAC member Karl Kling.
He credits in-person songwriting for the album’s intimate but full-lunged tone. “This album is face-to-face writing, which brought challenges, sure, but also a lot more creativity.” He points to “The Beautiful Game,” one of EGO’s stand-out tracks not only for its sophisticated pop feel, but also the stellar performances from collaborators St. Lucia.
Songs like “Johnny Cash,” where Jill Lamoureux of LA-based electro-pop band Scavenger Hunt sings longingly about listening to old records, and “This Song,” featuring Vampire Weekend’s Rostam, are ripe with the bittersweet epiphanies that come from listening to music - with or without the person you want to be listening to it with. At 120 BPMs, it’s dancefloor-friendly, sure, but, surrounded by 13 more equally shining, well-hewn gems, it’s also part of a greater whole that’s uncannily familiar but thrillingly new, owing as much, Andre’ says, to its strum-along guitars and sing-along hooks as its vintage synths and classic song structures. “I like to think I use nostalgia as a tool,” he explains. “There’s a unique, intangible quality to some of these old sounds. Almost like time travel.”
Speaking of which, Andre’ says he’s acutely aware what an anachronism making an album is amid today’s tastes for tracks and streaming. “I grew up with albums, so the format is still deeply important to me,” he says. “I want people to listen to it start to finish. It’s exactly one hour long. I get how people might not care or have time, but I feel like I’ve made something they’d appreciate if they listened to it top to bottom more than once.”
And if they don’t?
“I went into this record with the attitude that if I truly like this, I don’t care if other people don’t. In the past, I felt like I was still catering somewhat to what people wanted and now I feel like I have my priorities straight. I want to do the best work I possibly can and have it live up to my standards. That way, no matter what happens, I can live with it. In that sense, it’s untouchable,” he says– touchingly so, but yeah.
]]>“When Miyavi reached out to me to do a song together I was so excited and kind of nervous because I’m a fan of his artistry,” recalls Yuna. “He has a unique sound so I was curious to see what we can do together! I’m so happy to have a song with him, it’s an exciting moment for us and our fans.”
ABOUT YUNA
Yuna is the stage name of Yuna Zarai, a Malaysian pop vocalist and guitarist. Born Yunalis Mat Zarai in the town of Kedah, she began writing songs at age 14. She soon taught herself to play guitar, and by 2006, in need of a creative outlet while attending law school, performed for an audience for the first time. Yuna offered her music on her MySpace page, which went on to net over one million plays. This online success tipped off the Indie-Pop label/management company to her music, and in early 2011 she signed with the Fader label. Joined by guitarist Pa'an, bassist Efry Arwis, and drummer Adib Azfar (and later, Adil Ali), Yuna made her recorded debut in Malaysia in 2008 with a self-titled EP, which went on to snag five Anugerah Industri Muzik nominations (the Malaysian equivalent of the Grammy). She took home four trophies, including Best New Artist and Best Song (for the breakout hit "Deeper Conversation").
The Decorate EP followed two years later (and was released stateside in spring 2011). Decorate included the viral hit "Rocket," which won raves from Billboard magazine, indie rock radio station KEXP, and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, as well as ink in SPIN's Eight Bands You Need to Hear Now. On the performance end, Yuna was nominated as one of MTV Iggy's Best New Bands in the World in 2011, and she marked the occasion by playing at the historic MTV Studios. Yuna rang in 2012 with a new single, "Live Your Life," produced by Pharrell Williams as a preamble to her self-titled full-length debut, which arrived that April. Summer 2012 found Yuna sharing the Lollapalooza stage with the likes of Florence + the Machine, Jack White, and Childish Gambino. In 2013, Yuna returned with the album Nocturnal, featuring the single "Falling." In February 2016, Yuna previewed her third album with the release of "Places to Go," a single produced by hip-hop legend DJ Premier. The full album, Chapters, was released three months later.
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— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) November 30, 2018
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