Burna Boy proclaims present at London Stadium for June 2023

Burna Boy has introduced a present at London Stadium on June 3, 2023 – discover particulars and a hyperlink to purchase tickets beneath.

The African Large will carry out within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as a part of his ‘Love, Damini’ tour, which can make him the primary African artist to headline a UK stadium – tickets go on sale at 10am, Friday, November 25 here.

Talking in regards to the upcoming present, Burna Boy mentioned: “London Stadium goes to be my fairground! I’ve been advised that I couldn’t obtain something due to the place I got here from, I hope this may present people who when you could have a dream it doesn’t matter the place you’ve come from, your dream can come true. That is going to be legendary, it’s historical past and I can’t look ahead to you all to be part of that.”

Burna Boy’s sixth album, ‘Love, Damini’ was launched earlier this 12 months, described by NME in a three-star assessment as “an eclectic, emotional exploration of afro-pop”.

It continued: ‘Love, Damini’ had the potential to be the most important file of Burna’s so far, stuffed with coronary heart and rhythmic ardour. But it surely falls frustratingly quick: too usually the tunes are repetitive and, aside from the aforementioned highlights, don’t present a lot development. There’s a way that Burna Boy – a party-loving, emotion-invoking genius – may do extra to make one thing seminal. We’re simply ready for that magic once more.”

Talking to NME in his Large Learn cowl in 2020, Burna Boy spoke about England – the place he studied media on the College of Sussex after which Oxford Brookes – as being “actually my second residence”.

“In contrast to many Western international locations, the UK has Africans,” he mentioned. “In the event you go to America and see a Black man and ask him the place he’s from, he’ll inform you he’s from Michigan or no matter. If you land in Heathrow, and also you ask any Black man you see the place you’re from, you’re gonna get a solution like Nigeria or Senegal or Ghana.

“The UK has very sturdy roots right here in Africa. It’s virtually just like the tree that you just see within the UK now was planted in Africa. That’s why it’s so sturdy. It’s so strong it’s unbreakable.”

Burna Boy carried out at this 12 months’s Glastonbury Pageant, however pulled out of Wi-fi the place he was resulting from carry out in London and Birmingham.