Saturday, 16 Dec 2023 – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide SA

TICKETS: https://www.genesisowusu.com/tour
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Multi-ARIA award-winning Ghanaian-Australian artist, Kofi Owusu-Ansah aka Genesis Owusu announces his biggest Australian tour to date. Joining Owusu for each show (excluding Perth) will be very special guests, EARTHGANG

This news comes alongside the announcement of his highly anticipated sophomore album, STRUGGLER due for release on August 18 via OURNESS / AWAL. Plus, a global world tour and the release of his newest single, “Leaving the Light” available now.

To celebrate the album’s release, Genesis Owusu will be rounding out 2023 with a huge run of headline shows, presented by Ourness, Astral People and Handsome Tours plus supported by triple j. Special guests EARTHGANG will be joining him across the tour. Hailing from Atlanta, the acclaimed hip hop duo have been taking the world by storm over the past 12 months; earning Grammy nominations of Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Album for their work on Dreamville and J.Cole’s Revenge Of The Dreamers III, and most recently performing their electrifying live show at Coachella. Coupled with Owusu, the shows are set to be an unmissable, high-energy end to what’s been an already incredible year for both artists.

After launching onto the global map with his critically acclaimed debut album, Smiling With No Teeth, Owusu next steps forth with STRUGGLER; an imminent exploration of the chaos and absurdity of life, and our ability to endure. Where Smiling With No Teeth uncovered the battle against depression and racism, STRUGGLER is about how to get through its struggle. The album takes inspiration from a close friend hitting the brink and coming through the other side, in conjunction with prompted questions of life and beauty that Owusu found himself contemplating during readings of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Recorded between the US and Australia, the album’s producers traverse musical genres; from Jason Evigan (RUFUS DU SOL, SZA), to Mikey Freedom Hart (Jon Batiste’s 2021 Grammy of the Year Album, We Are), Sol Was (Beyoncé’s Renaissance), and original producers, Andrew Klippel and Dave Hammer.

His newest chapter unfolds with the album’s leading single “Leaving the Light”. A fervent anthem about survival and perseverance, “Leaving the Light”, sets an urgent tone for the new album. Opening to a spine-crawling run of bass notes, the immediacy hits through Owusu’s feverish verses and echoed shouts. A jolting mix of poetic punk and melodic catharsis, Owusu explores form and rhythm across the new single.

The dawn of a new era for Genesis Owusu begins, with a mammoth Australian tour joined by none other than EARTHGANG coming to us this December!

TICKETS: https://www.genesisowusu.com/tour
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We pay our respects to the Kaurna people, and acknowledge their custodianship of these lands and waters; their culture and language; and their elders – past, present and emerging.