Ms. Lauryn Hill has announced The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 25th Anniversary Tour to commemorate her massively influential 1998 debut solo album, which was released 25 years ago to the day this coming Friday. The 17-date tour will hit arenas around the world, including Brooklyn’s Barclays, Chicago’s United Center, and The Kia Forum in Los Angeles, as well as venues in Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. The Fugees will reunite for their first tour in years to co-headline the trek on all US and Canadian dates.
Ms. Hill also explained her thoughts on the album and its lasting impact: “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is and was a love song to my parents, my family, my people, my musical and cultural forebears, my teachers, my loves, my Creator. I wrote love songs and protest songs—(still love songs) about the subjects and interests that inspired and moved me. I was confident that what inspired me would resonate with an audience that had been led to believe that songs of that kind could only live in the past.”
She continued, “I loved music, I loved people, I truly felt grateful to God for my life, and genuinely blessed to have a platform where I could share wisdom and perspective through music. I felt a charge to challenge the idea that certain kinds of expression and/or certain kinds of people didn’t belong in certain places. I loved showing what could work or happen provided there was imagination, creativity and LOVE leading the way.”
Check out Ms. Lauryn Hill’s website for more information, and see the tour poster below.
