WeeklySA_AdminHEARTTHROBS: Acclaimed Grammy Award-winning stars to bring thrills to country’s entertainment scene
By Priscilla Malinga
Babyface and Travis Scott are due to come have a tour of South Africa for two events that have nothing to do with each other.
Kenneth Brian Edmonds, alias Baby face, will be coming to South Africa on December 12 and 13, performing at the All-White Soul Session Concert to be held at the Sunbet Arena, Pretoria, Tshwane, and promoted by Remoakantse Holdings.
Babyface is a 13-time Grammy Award winning singer, producer, and songwriter. He has made a wide contribution to the music scene, with over 800 million combined record sales, and over a billion record Streams.
He has produced and written 125 top 10 hits; 45 number one R & B hits; and 16 number one pop hits. Throughout his career, Babyface won the BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year Awar seven times. He received a total of 51 BMI Awards, adding to his success four American Music Awards, five Soul Train Awards, five NAACP Image awards, and many more.
He is the producer and co-writer of the Oscar-winning When you Believe hit by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
Babyface has also impacted, written for and/or produced artists like Bobby Brown, Boyz II Men, Eric Clapton, Madonna, Beyonce, Ariana Grande, Mary J Blige, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, George Michael, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, among others
Tickets are exclusively sold at Webtickets and Pick n Pay outlets nationwide. Likewise, Travis Scott is an internationally acclaimed superstar who has recently announced the extension of his record-breaking Circus Maximus World Tour.
He is due to perform at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, on October 11, before making stops in Delhi, the capital of India; Seoul, the seat of Korea; Sanya, a city in South China; Hainan, a city in southernmost province of China; and Tokyo, a big city in Japan. Scott is not only a leader in music, but in fashion, film, and culture.
He is diamond-certified Grammy Award-nominated artist; designer; style icon; actor; producer; entrepreneur; and has changed the course of hip-hop with ground-breaking albums. Heralded as the album of the decade, the acclaimed Utopia is the rapper’s fourth studio album by American rapper Scott, and was released through Cactus Jack and Epic Records in 2023.
The album continues to enshrine him as the culture’s foremost sonic innovator. He has the biggest-selling hip-hop release of 2023, holding firm at the top of the Billboard Top 200 for four weeks.
During that period, he garnered more than 50 billion streams globally. Scott’s Circus Maximus World Tour originally kicked off in 2023 through 2024 and included 76 sold-out stops across North America, Europe, UK, Latin America.
The tour concluded as the highest grossing rap tour in history with $209.3 million and 1.7 million tickets sold. Utopia finds Grammy nominated Travis Scott at the height of his powers as a performer, songwriter, producer.
For the first time since 2019, Castle Lite Unlocks is making its highly anticipated return by bringing circus Maximus World Tour to the South Africa.
Scott is also known for delivering electrifying concerts with global superstars. This year’s event is set to relive iconic experiences while pushing the boundaries of entertainment with explosive, show-stopping performances.
Tickets for the Scott show are available at the www.ticketmaster.co.za and www.bigconcerts.co.za including Castle Lite VIP tickets.
