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Leila Adu ‘Love Cells’ Aotearoa Tour Announcement

For Immediate Release: Leila Adu ‘Love Cells’ Aotearoa Tour Announcement

Earlier this year, Brooklyn-based, New Zealand Ghanaian musician Leila Adu premiered the music video for her new song 'Love Cells' via Afropunk. Afropunk describe it as a psychedelic rock track "all about universal love, and the inherently spiritual love that we share with humanity, the Earth, and the cosmos." In Leila's words, "'Love Cells' represents the fact that we are all the same underneath—we are cellular. Acts of bigotry, racial hatred, war and poor-blaming and future disregard of global poverty and climate change, shows how the belief that we are separate is dangerous."

After premiering ‘Love Cells’ via Afropunk, Leila successfully ran a crowdfunding campaign to tour her Love Cells and Scary Love Monster EP releases. Between December and February, Leila is bringing her ‘Love Cells’ tour to New Zealand for four shows in Christchurch, Palmerston North, Wellington and Auckland.

Leila Adu ‘Love Cells’ Aotearoa Tour Dates

Sat 10 Dec, darkroom, support from Stef T
336 St Asaph St, Christchurch
$10 Door Sales Only

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Sat 14 Jan, Snails Artist Run Space, Palmerston North, support tbc
101 Taonui Street, Palmerston North
$10 doorsales only

Thu 02 Feb, Cindy Sherman Exhibition: Tuatara Open Late, City Gallery Wellington, with The She Jays. Explore Cindy Sherman after hours. Special guests including Anne Noble and Gaylene Preston discuss their favourite works in the show.
101 Wakefield St, Wellington
Entry $12 / concession $8 / Free under 12s and Friends | Door Sales Only

Sat 04 Feb, Golden Dawn, support tbc
134 Ponsonby Rd, Auckland
$10 Doorsales Only


Leila Adu Biography:

Leila Adu has released four acclaimed albums including, ‘Dark Joan,’ recorded by Steve Albini and ‘Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker’ produced for the Italian National Radio. London’s ‘Time Out’ called her music, ‘Avante-garde pop that recalls Nina Simone and Tim Buckley” and reviewers have placed her in an arena with other female icons such as Joni Mitchell, PJ Harvey, Micachu and Esperanza Spalding.

Leila is a New Zealand composer of Ghanaian descent who has composed for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Brentano String Quartet, So Percussion, Gamelan Padhang Moncar and Orchestra Wellington. Based in Brooklyn, she is a currently a Princeton doctoral fellow and also teaches music to prisoners at Sing Sing Correctional Facility as a faculty member of Musicambia - music for social change. With a “voice like hot treacle on broken glass,” she has performed her original piano songs and improvisations alongside international artists, at festivals and venues in the UK, mainland Europe, the US, Russia, Ghana and Asia.

Leila Adu has been voted as MTV Iggy’s Artist of the Week, performed on the BBC World Service, composed, produced a short-film and documentary soundtrack with screenings on BBC Knowledge TV channel and the NZ Film Festival and performed with Luscious Jackson on ‘MTV VH1’ and ‘Late Night with David Letterman.’

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