H.E.R. Tour 2026

Inside H.E.R.

H.E.R. is the stage name of Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, the Vallejo, California-born R&B singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose work has gathered as many Grammy and Academy Award recognitions as any artist of her generation while still trafficking in the deeply private songwriting register she introduced under the masked-identity rollout that launched the project in 2016. The initials stand for Having Everything Revealed, and the early career conceit — silhouette photography, sunglasses indoors, a deliberate withholding of biographical detail in interviews and on cover art — was designed to push listeners toward the songs themselves rather than the persona around them, a counter-positioning against the heavily curated social-media-first artist rollouts dominating the late 2010s R&B field. The catalogue that followed has more than earned out that bet. H.E.R. Volume 1 in 2016 and H.E.R. Volume 2 in 2017 — collected with new material as the self-titled H.E.R. compilation in October 2017 — pulled five Grammy nominations and won Best R&B Album, framing the project's mid-tempo guitar-led R&B aesthetic as a generational reset on the genre's tradition. I Used to Know Her followed in 2018 and 2019 across two EPs and a full-length compilation. The 2021 protest single I Can't Breathe, written in the wake of George Floyd's murder, won the Grammy for Song of the Year at the 63rd ceremony — making H.E.R. one of a small number of artists to win that category for a song about systemic racism in the United States. Fight for You, her contribution to the Judas and the Black Messiah soundtrack co-written with Dernst 'D'Mile' Emile II and Tiara Thomas, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 93rd Oscars in April 2021. The 2021 debut full-length studio album Back of My Mind — anchored by the platinum single Damage, the Chris Brown collaboration Come Through, and the Cardi B-featuring Need a Favor — arrived with a 21-track tracklist that pulled across the R&B, hip-hop, and gospel-soul registers the project had developed across the EP era. She has performed at the Super Bowl LV halftime show, headlined the Coachella main stage on a marquee Friday night during the 2025 festival cycle, opened for Coldplay on stadium dates, and built a touring framework that consistently sells out the largest theaters and amphitheaters across North America with arena-tier capacity reached on the most recent cycles. This page is the central hub for H.E.R. tour dates, ticket guidance, the typical setlist structure, and the cities she plays most.

About H.E.R.

Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson was born June 27, 1997 in Vallejo, California — a working-class East Bay city across the strait from San Francisco — to a Filipino mother and an African-American father, and was raised in a deeply musical household where she began playing piano at age two, guitar shortly after, and started performing publicly by the time she was in elementary school. Her father, Kenny Wilson, played in a local Bay Area cover band, and the family environment was steeped in the R&B, gospel, jazz, soul, and singer-songwriter tradition that became the foundation for the H.E.R. project's sonic palette. She first surfaced on national television in 2009 at age eleven on The View, performing under the name Gabi Wilson, and that early run included appearances on the Maury Show, Today, and a 2011 appearance on the Radio Disney circuit. She signed with RCA Records in 2011 at age fourteen and released a debut single, Something to Prove, under the Gabi Wilson name. The masked H.E.R. project relaunched the public-facing career in 2016 with the H.E.R. Volume 1 EP — silhouette artwork, no on-record vocals identified, no interviews — and the rollout immediately drew critical and industry attention for the deliberate withholding of identity at a moment when artist personality was the dominant marketing currency in pop and R&B. H.E.R. Volume 2 in 2017 deepened the catalogue, and the compilation H.E.R. — collecting the first two EPs plus new material — released October 2017 through RCA, pulled five Grammy nominations at the 61st ceremony in February 2019 including Album of the Year and Best New Artist, and won Best R&B Album plus Best R&B Performance for Best Part with Daniel Caesar. I Used to Know Her: The Prelude in 2018 and I Used to Know Her: Part 2 later that year continued the EP framework, and the consolidated I Used to Know Her compilation in August 2019 collected the cycle's material with new songs including Lord Is Coming with YBN Cordae. The 2021 protest single I Can't Breathe, released June 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd and the broader Black Lives Matter movement, won Grammy Song of the Year at the 63rd ceremony in March 2021 — H.E.R. accepted alongside co-writers Dernst Emile II and Tiara Thomas. Fight for You, written for the Judas and the Black Messiah soundtrack with the same co-writing team and the film's score composers, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 93rd Oscars in April 2021. The debut full-length studio album Back of My Mind released June 2021 through RCA and MBK Entertainment — a 21-track effort produced primarily by D'Mile, with collaborators including Chris Brown (Come Through), Cardi B (Need a Favor), Ty Dolla Sign (Hold On), Lil Baby (Find a Way), Bryson Tiller, Yung Bleu, and DJ Khaled — pulled the Damage single to platinum certification and anchored the project's first sustained mainstream radio cycle. She performed America the Beautiful at Super Bowl LV in February 2021 and joined the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI halftime show as a featured contributor. Her live multi-instrumental capacity — guitar, bass, piano, drums, and a deeply trained vocal — has been treated by the touring industry as a defining differentiator since the earliest theater dates, and the touring framework has consistently leaned into a band-led, instrumentally heavy stage configuration rather than the dance-and-track-show format more typical of mainstream R&B and pop touring of the era. The Coachella 2025 Weekend One main stage performance on a marquee Friday night — supporting the broader album cycle that has continued through the EP and single drops following Back of My Mind — confirmed her status as a festival headline draw at the scale of the highest-tier R&B and pop touring acts.

H.E.R. tour dates and live show

An H.E.R. live show runs roughly 90 to 110 minutes on the headline framework — band-led, instrumentally dense, and built around her own multi-instrumental performance across guitar, bass, piano, and the occasional drum solo segment depending on the night. The stage configuration on recent cycles has run a full live band — drums, bass, keys, second guitar, plus a horn section on the larger-capacity dates — with H.E.R. centered on a stool-and-microphone setup for the acoustic guitar segments and stepping forward with a custom black Fender Stratocaster (and on certain nights a vintage Gibson SG) for the rock-leaning closing run. The set typically opens with a band-only instrumental intro before H.E.R. enters for an opening run pulling from the H.E.R. Volume 1 and Volume 2 era — Focus, Best Part, Could've Been — moving through the I Used to Know Her material in the middle stretch, including Lord Is Coming and Hard Place, and pushing into the Back of My Mind catalogue in the back half with Damage, Come Through, We Made It, and Need a Favor. The closing run typically pulls from the protest catalogue — I Can't Breathe performed with extended band breakdowns and crowd singalong — and Fight for You as the late-set Academy-recognized vehicle. Encore configurations have rotated through Hold On, Slip, and Damage when the night opens with different material. The set is built to let the band breathe — extended instrumental passages, on-stage guitar trades, and a deliberately stripped solo acoustic segment in the middle third where H.E.R. performs one or two songs alone with guitar before the band returns. Doors typically open seventy-five to ninety minutes before the show; H.E.R.'s set usually starts close to schedule once the support set clears. If an H.E.R. tour date is confirmed in your region, the schedule strip above pulls every confirmed night from the live feed.

H.E.R. tickets

H.E.R. tickets on the most recent theater and amphitheater touring cycles have typically started in the $50–$80 USD range for upper-balcony and lawn seats on the day of on-sale and climbed past $200 for orchestra and lower-pavilion seats once Ticketmaster dynamic pricing engages on the high-demand markets. Pit and front-row packages on amphitheater dates have cleared $300–$500 face value in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, and the Bay Area markets where H.E.R.'s catalogue draws hardest. Resale on StubHub, SeatGeek, and Vivid Seats can land above face value on the Friday and Saturday nights once the on-sale window closes — Bay Area dates with H.E.R.'s Vallejo hometown proximity, Los Angeles dates, and the New York-area runs clear the lower bowl and orchestra in the fastest single-digit-minute windows. Ticketmaster Verified Fan registration has been used on the larger arena and amphitheater cycles as the primary path to face-value access: register ahead of any announced market, request codes for every city you'd consider, and treat the registration window as the actual deadline rather than the on-sale itself. RCA Records fan pre-sales open 24–48 hours before the public window for verified mailing-list subscribers, and Live Nation pre-sales and Citi Cardmember pre-sales typically run in parallel on the North American legs. VIP and Platinum packages on the most recent cycles have bundled pre-show acoustic listening sessions, signed merchandise, photo opportunities, and early venue entry rather than face-to-face artist meet-and-greets. Avoid social-media DMs and any seller demanding Venmo, Zelle, or wire payment outside a verified platform — the secondary market for higher-demand H.E.R. dates has been targeted by counterfeit listings in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and Atlanta.

H.E.R. setlist

An H.E.R. setlist on the headline framework runs roughly 16 to 22 songs across the main set and encore, braiding the catalogue across the H.E.R. Volume 1 and Volume 2 era, the I Used to Know Her cycle, the Back of My Mind album, and the standalone singles. The opening third typically pulls the early EP catalogue — Focus, Best Part (the Daniel Caesar collaboration performed solo when Daniel is not on the routing), Could've Been (the Bryson Tiller collaboration), and Every Kind of Way — leaning on the mid-tempo guitar-led R&B that defined the project's first wave. The middle stretch shifts to the I Used to Know Her material — Hard Place performed with extended piano breakdowns, Lord Is Coming, and Carried Away — with the stripped solo acoustic segment in the center of the show where H.E.R. performs one or two songs alone with guitar. The back half pushes into the Back of My Mind catalogue — Damage as the platinum single anchor, Come Through (Chris Brown collaboration performed solo when Chris is not on the bill), We Made It, Slide with YG (rotated in on select cycles), and Need a Favor with Cardi B. The closing run typically lands I Can't Breathe — the Grammy Song of the Year protest single performed with extended band breakdowns and crowd singalong — and Fight for You from the Judas and the Black Messiah soundtrack as the late-set Oscar-recognized vehicle. The encore configuration rotates through Hold On (the Ty Dolla Sign collaboration performed solo), Slip, and Damage when the show opens with different material. The full setlist is band-driven across every segment — extended instrumental passages, on-stage guitar trades, and a deliberately stripped solo acoustic interlude in the middle third. For exact night-by-night setlists, setlist.fm tracks every H.E.R. date with crowd-submitted song lists usually posted within hours of the encore.

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