H.E.R. Opening Act 2026 — Who is the Support?

H.E.R.'s opening-act history across the Back of My Mind Tour and subsequent touring cycles has rotated through some of the most commercially significant rising R&B, soul, and singer-songwriter acts of the current generation, often pulled from the RCA Records, MBK Entertainment, and broader Sony Music R&B ecosystem or from artists H.E.R. has actively collaborated with on the most recent album cycle. The Back of My Mind Tour ran with rotating opening acts across regional legs including Tone Stith (the RCA-signed R&B singer-songwriter who opened multiple dates on the North American run), Brandee Younger (the harpist and composer who joined select dates for the more jazz-leaning opening configuration), and a rotation of regional R&B and soul openers depending on the market. Co-headline and festival appearances have featured H.E.R. alongside Daniel Caesar (her Best Part collaborator), Bryson Tiller, Chris Brown, and the broader R&B festival circuit. International legs have featured UK R&B acts including Cleo Sol, Jorja Smith collaborators, and rising European soul singer-songwriters depending on the market. Confirmed openers for any current or upcoming H.E.R. routing typically surface on the official Ticketmaster show page 4–8 weeks before each tour stop — your H.E.R. ticket covers the full bill including every opener, and the opening set typically runs 30–45 minutes starting 60–90 minutes after doors open. The H.E.R. headline set runs roughly 90 to 110 minutes after the opener clears the stage and the band breaks for changeover. For the most current opener confirmations on any tour stop, check the schedule strip at the top of this page and click through to the Ticketmaster show page for the specific venue.

How H.E.R. Tour Openers Get Announced

Most H.E.R.tour openers aren't named when tickets go on sale. The supporting act is locked in per-region (sometimes per-show) and surfaces on the official Ticketmaster show page in the weeks before each stop. Click any date above to see whether the opener is confirmed yet — Catch Movement pulls live show pages daily, so the listed support act updates as soon as Ticketmaster does.

For headliners at H.E.R.'s scale, expect a single opener doing a 30 to 45 minute set, sometimes with a regional rotation (a Canadian opener for CA dates, a US opener for the American leg). The opener slot doesn't require a separate ticket — your H.E.R. ticket covers the full show.

How to Find the Confirmed H.E.R. Opener for Your City

1. Pick your city from the tour-date list above.
2. Click through to that show's Ticketmaster page.
3. Check the listing — confirmed openers appear under the headline name once added.
4. Watch for updates — openers are sometimes added 2 to 4 weeks out, so check back if it's still TBA.

Do I Need a Separate Ticket for the Opener?

No. The H.E.R. ticket you buy from Ticketmaster covers the entire show — opener + headliner — at the same venue, same night. Doors usually open 60 to 90 minutes before the advertised start time; the opener typically performs first, with a 20 to 30 minute changeover before H.E.R. takes the stage.

H.E.R. Opening Act — FAQ

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.

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