Jazmine Sullivan Tour 2026

Inside Jazmine Sullivan

Jazmine Sullivan is one of the most acclaimed vocalists in modern R&B — a Philadelphia-born singer-songwriter whose blues-leaning contralto, novelistic songwriting, and refusal to chase trend cycles have earned her a reputation as a singer's singer across a career now stretching nearly two decades. Born Jazmine Marie Sullivan on April 9, 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she grew up in the city's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, started singing at her grandmother's Pentecostal church, and was discovered as a child performing at Philadelphia's historic Apollo Theater amateur night circuit before being signed to Jive Records as a teenager. Her 2008 debut Fearless arrived with the Missy Elliott-produced Need U Bad and Bust Your Windows as immediate radio hits, earned her five Grammy nominations on a single ceremony, and announced an artist whose technical vocal command — the runs, the chest-voice belt, the controlled vibrato — sat at a different ceiling than almost anything else on R&B radio. Love Me Back in 2010 carried Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles) and Lions, Tigers & Bears. After a five-year hiatus, Reality Show in 2015 returned the catalogue with Mascara, Dumb, Forever Don't Last, and the storytelling concept arc that established Sullivan as the most narrative-driven R&B writer of her generation. Heaux Tales, released January 2021 as a 14-track EP-into-album threading interview interludes from real women about love, sex, autonomy, and money through her own songwriting, became the cultural and commercial inflection point — it won the Grammy for Best R&B Album in 2022, debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, produced Pick Up Your Feelings, Lost One, On It with Ari Lennox, and Girl Like Me with H.E.R., and was followed by the 2022 deluxe Heaux Tales, Mo' Tales: The Deluxe. Sullivan and Eric Church performed America the Beautiful and the national anthem at Super Bowl LV in Tampa on February 7, 2021. She holds twelve Grammy nominations across a catalogue that has consistently prioritized craft over volume. This page is the central hub for Jazmine Sullivan tour dates, ticket guidance, setlist tracking, and the cities she plays most.

About Jazmine Sullivan

Jazmine Marie Sullivan was born April 9, 1987 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a deeply musical household — her mother Pam Sullivan worked as a backup singer in the Philadelphia gospel and R&B circuits, and the family raised Jazmine inside the Pentecostal church tradition that shaped her vocal foundation. She grew up in the city's Strawberry Mansion neighborhood in North Philadelphia, attended the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) — the same magnet school that produced Boyz II Men, Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson, and Black Thought of The Roots — and started performing publicly as a child on the Philadelphia talent-show circuit. She was a regular at the historic Apollo Theater amateur night in Harlem during her early teen years, won the famously brutal Showtime at the Apollo audience repeatedly, and was signed to Jive Records as a teenager after years of demo work with Philadelphia producers including the Bell Biv DeVoe-affiliated production teams in the early 2000s. Her debut single Need U Bad, produced by Missy Elliott and built on a reggae one-drop sample, dropped in 2008 and became a top-40 Billboard Hot 100 hit; the follow-up Bust Your Windows — the now-canonical revenge anthem about smashing a cheating partner's car windows — landed at number 31 on the Hot 100 and cemented Sullivan as one of the most distinctive new voices in R&B. Fearless, released September 30, 2008 on J Records, debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 and earned five Grammy nominations at the 2009 ceremony including Best New Artist, Best R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for Need U Bad, Best R&B Song for Need U Bad, and Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance for Bust Your Windows. Love Me Back, released November 30, 2010 on J Records, produced Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles), Lions, Tigers & Bears, and 10 Seconds and continued the same five-Grammy-nomination critical reception. After Love Me Back, Sullivan publicly announced a hiatus in 2011, citing burnout and a desire to recalibrate her relationship to the music industry — she returned to Philadelphia, stepped back from public performance for roughly three years, and worked through what she has described in subsequent interviews as a period of personal and creative recovery from an industry that had pushed her too hard too young. Reality Show, released January 13, 2015 on RCA Records, was the comeback — a concept album threading reality-TV satire through ten songs that produced Mascara, Dumb featuring Meek Mill, Forever Don't Last, and the lead single Dumb. Reality Show earned Sullivan three further Grammy nominations and was widely cited as one of the strongest R&B albums of the 2010s. Heaux Tales, released January 8, 2021 on RCA Records, was the cultural inflection point — a 14-track project threading audio interview interludes from real women in Sullivan's life (her sisters, friends, and fellow artists) about love, sex, financial autonomy, and self-worth through her own songwriting, with features from H.E.R., Ari Lennox, Anderson .Paak, and Issa Rae. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, produced Pick Up Your Feelings, Lost One, On It with Ari Lennox, Girl Like Me with H.E.R., and Bodies, won the Grammy for Best R&B Album at the 2022 ceremony, and was followed by Heaux Tales, Mo' Tales: The Deluxe in February 2022 carrying additional Tales and the new track Hurt Me So Good. Sullivan and country artist Eric Church performed The Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful together at Super Bowl LV on February 7, 2021 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, with H.E.R. performing America the Beautiful in the same broadcast; the performance drew widespread praise for Sullivan's vocal control across the broadcast's pre-game window. Sullivan holds twelve career Grammy nominations across the Fearless, Love Me Back, Reality Show, and Heaux Tales cycles, with the 2022 Best R&B Album win for Heaux Tales as the headline. She has been publicly engaged in advocacy work around women's autonomy, mental health, and Black women's representation in R&B, and her catalogue is widely cited by younger R&B artists — Summer Walker, Ari Lennox, Coco Jones, Muni Long, Tyla — as a foundational influence on the genre's contemporary direction.

Jazmine Sullivan tour dates and live show

Jazmine Sullivan's touring framework has been built around the Heaux Tales material since the album's 2021 release — the Heaux Tales Tour ran across major North American theaters and amphitheaters in 2022 and 2023 following the lifting of pandemic touring restrictions, and her live show has continued to anchor the post-Heaux Tales era through festival headline slots, theater dates, and special-event appearances. The live show is structured around her voice in a way that few R&B headliners attempt — relatively minimal staging, a tight live band built around keys, bass, drums, guitar, and a small horn or string section depending on the room, and a setlist that leans into the technical vocal demands of the catalogue rather than dance-heavy choreography. The arrangement allows her to stretch the longer notes, the runs, and the call-and-response moments with the audience in a way that doesn't survive the bigger arena production she has occasionally been booked into. Theater and amphitheater rooms — The Met Philadelphia, Radio City Music Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the Greek Theatre LA, and the Apollo Theater in Harlem on the most symbolic dates — have been the touring sweet spot. The setlist braids the Fearless and Love Me Back catalogue (Bust Your Windows, Need U Bad, Holding You Down, Lions Tigers & Bears) with the Reality Show material (Mascara, Forever Don't Last, Dumb) and the Heaux Tales cuts (Pick Up Your Feelings, Lost One, On It, Girl Like Me, Bodies) across a roughly 90-to-110-minute headline block. Doors typically open ninety minutes before show start; Sullivan's set typically runs close to schedule. If a Heaux Tales or successor routing date is confirmed in your region, the schedule strip above pulls every confirmed night from the live feed.

Jazmine Sullivan tickets

Jazmine Sullivan tickets on the Heaux Tales-era theater and amphitheater routing typically start in the $55–$95 range for upper-level and rear-section seats on the day of on-sale across most North American markets, climbing to $120–$220 for orchestra and lower-level seats once Ticketmaster dynamic pricing engages on the higher-demand dates. Front-row and VIP packages clear $300–$600 in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Washington DC. Resale on StubHub, SeatGeek, and Vivid Seats can land above face on Friday and Saturday nights once the on-sale window closes — Philadelphia hometown dates at The Met or the Mann Center clear faster than any other market on the routing. Ticketmaster pre-sale codes and RCA Records artist pre-sale codes typically open 24–72 hours before the public on-sale window — register for the Jazmine Sullivan newsletter at her official site and watch for the pre-sale email. American Express Card Member pre-sale and Citi Cardmember pre-sale run in parallel on select markets through the Live Nation and AEG Presents booking partners. VIP packages bundle premium seating, early venue entry, a commemorative laminate, and limited merchandise rather than a meet-and-greet on most dates. Avoid social-media DMs and any seller demanding Venmo, Zelle, or wire payment outside a verified platform — the secondary market for high-demand R&B headline dates is heavily scammed in Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles.

Jazmine Sullivan setlist

A Jazmine Sullivan setlist on the Heaux Tales-era routing typically runs roughly 16 to 20 songs across a 90-to-110-minute headline block, braiding the four-album catalogue with the most recent Heaux Tales and Mo' Tales deluxe material as the structural anchor. Recent sets have opened with cuts from Heaux Tales — Bodies, Pick Up Your Feelings, or the Antoinette's Tale-into-Put It Down sequence — before pulling back into the Fearless and Love Me Back catalogue with Need U Bad (the Missy Elliott-produced debut single still anchors the radio canon), Bust Your Windows (the revenge anthem that turns the room every night), Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles), and Lions, Tigers & Bears as the emotional centerpiece. The Reality Show stretch typically lands Mascara, Forever Don't Last, Dumb, and Let It Burn across the middle of the set. The Heaux Tales material returns for the closing stretch with Lost One — Sullivan has built an extended a cappella moment into the live arrangement that strips the song to her voice and a single piano — Girl Like Me with the H.E.R. vocal on the recording carried by the band, and On It as the dance-floor closer. Encore typically runs Bust Your Windows or Need U Bad depending on the night. The full setlist on any given date is captured by setlist.fm, with crowd-submitted song lists usually posted within hours of the encore. Cover material is rare in her set — Sullivan's catalogue is deep enough that a 110-minute headline block doesn't need outside material — though she has occasionally pulled gospel or classic-soul cuts on special-event dates.

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