The R&B legend will play songs from his entire career in solo theater concerts
R&B legend Raphael Saadiq, who most recently was a key collaborator on Beyoncé‘s Grammy-winning Cowboy Carter, will take the stage alone this spring for three concerts covering his lengthy career. The mini-tour, titled No Bandwidth: One Man, One Night, Three Decades of Hits, will draw from his work with Tony! Toni! Toné! and Lucy Pearl, as well as his solo albums and production work for other artists, from D’Angelo to Erykah Badu.
“I’ve always wanted to do a one-man show, ” Saadiq said in a press release. “I want to challenge myself. My one-person show has three acts; I will be talking about my career, bringing a couple of instruments to express myself, singing my original music as well as covers of songs I wish I had written, and more. I want it to feel magical and like a Broadway show.”
Saadiq recently told our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he’s taken up serious piano studies since the pandemic. “Just really being a student and studying music,” he said. “Trying to sight read, learning theory, just basic stuff. Then, when I do start writing, I have an arsenal.”
Saadiq toured in 2023 with a reunited Tony! Toni! Toné!, but he told Rolling Stone Music Now that there will be no further reunions and that they’d scrapped plans for a new album. “We just got overzealous a little bit,” Saadiq said. “The tour was amazing. We had a beautiful time… We’re just at that point where we all don’t feel the same when it comes to working on an album. I’m probably the only one who really wanted to work on records.”
Raphael Saadiq Tour Dates:
May 31 – New York, NY @ Apollo Theater
June 6 – Los Angeles, CA @ The United Theater on Broadway
June 7 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
