Jamilla Woods Lines Up Heavn 10th Anniversary Tour

The Chicago singer is taking her 2016 album on the road this NovemberPhoto by Bradley A. MurrayJamila Woods is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her debut album Heavn with a short Stateside tour. The jaunt starts in Los Angeles on November 16 and travels to cities including Portland and New York City before concluding with a hometown show in Chicago on December 6.“Ten years ago today the OG SoundCloud version of HEAVN was born. My first child! The one who showed me a new version of myself / a portal to who I could be,” Woods wrote on Instagram. “Last night I found a journal entry from 2015, a year before the release. My band M&O had just broken up. I wondered how I would ever learn how to make music ‘on my own.’ Little did I know making music as a so called solo-artist would allow me to connect with even more people & build a deeper relationship with my city than I had before.” The critically acclaimed Heavn saw Woods delving into police violence, Black femmehood, and self-love over soothing R&B.Read more about the LP in Pitchfork’s 50 Best Albums of 2016.Jamila Woods: 10 Years Of HeavnJamila Woods 10 Years of Heavn:11-16 Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room11-18 San Francisco, CA - August Hall11-19 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom11-20 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile11-22 New York, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg12-06 Chicago, IL - Thalia HallKiana Mickles is a staff writer at Pitchfork. They previously worked as the reviews editor at Resident Advisor. They were born and raised in New York. ... Read More