Tems Opening Act 2026 — Who is the Support?

Tems' opening-act history across the Born In The Wild Tour and prior touring cycles has rotated by leg and region, with rising Afrobeats, alt-R&B, and West African vocalist-songwriter acts pulled from the same management or Leading Vibe Records orbit on most Tems dates. The North American Tems legs have featured rotating support across the touring stretch — past Tems openers across the broader cycle have included Asake (the Nigerian Afrobeats singer signed to YBNL), Black Sherif (the Ghanaian rapper and singer behind 'Kwaku The Traveller' and 'Soja'), Lojay (the Nigerian Afro-fusion vocalist behind the Sarz collaboration 'Monalisa'), Adekunle Gold (Tems' fellow Lagos-based Afro-fusion artist and longtime collaborator), and other rising West African vocalists pulled from the Mavin Records, YBNL, Chocolate City, and Leading Vibe Records rosters depending on the Tems regional leg. The UK and European Tems legs have featured a mix of London-based UK Afroswing and alt-R&B acts (typically pulled from the Lagos-London creative corridor) and continental European R&B openers on the smaller theatre dates. The African Tems leg around the Detty December festival window in Lagos typically does not carry a single fixed opener and instead is structured as a multi-artist festival-tier configuration with rotating slot positions across the Lagos and Johannesburg dates. Festival Tems dates (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Wireless, Roskilde, Glastonbury) do not carry a tour-specific Tems opener — the festival lineup itself serves as the support context. Confirmed Tems opening acts surface on the official Ticketmaster Tems show page typically 4 to 8 weeks before each tour stop — your Tems ticket covers the full bill including every opener, and the opening Tems set typically runs 30 to 45 minutes starting 60 to 90 minutes after doors open. The Tems main set follows roughly 20 to 30 minutes after the support set clears.

How Tems Tour Openers Get Announced

Most Temstour 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 Tems'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 Tems ticket covers the full show.

How to Find the Confirmed Tems 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 Tems 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 Tems takes the stage.

Tems Opening Act — FAQ

About Tems

Temilade Openiyi was born June 11, 1995 in Lagos, Nigeria, raised between Lagos and the United Kingdom in her early years, and returned to Lagos full-time as a teenager. The musical foundation was unusually broad for a Nigerian artist of her generation: church choir from childhood, classical piano lessons through her school years, and a Lagos adolescence absorbing the city's mix of gospel, R&B, Afro-pop, and the long shadow of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. She studied economics at Monash University South Africa in Johannesburg, returned to Lagos with a degree, took a marketing job at a multinational while writing songs in the evenings, and put out her first independent single 'Mr Rebel' in 2018. The early Lagos buzz built through 2019 around 'Try Me' — a self-produced track that turned into a slow-burn local hit and that established the vocal-and-production identity that would carry the rest of the career. The 2020 Wizkid feature on 'Essence', released on his Made In Lagos album, was the cycle-defining moment. The song's slow rise through 2020 and 2021, capped by the Justin Bieber remix and the Hot 100 entry, opened the US Afrobeats conversation at a scale no previous Nigerian record had managed. The 2020 EP For Broken Ears and the 2021 EP If Orange Was a Place followed the trajectory — short-form releases that read more like statements than full-length albums, with 'Damages', 'Found' (with Brent Faiyaz), and 'Crazy Tings' extending the catalogue. The Drake and Future feature 'Wait For U' in 2022 became her first US number one as a featured artist and won the Grammy for Best Melodic Rap Performance. 'Lift Me Up' with Rihanna later that year, co-written by Tems alongside Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson, was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song; the Beyonce 'Cozy' co-writing credit on Renaissance landed in the same window. Born In The Wild, released through RCA in June 2024, was her debut full-length studio album — a long-form record tracing gospel, alt-R&B, and Afro-fusion through a single artist's voice, with 'Love Me JeJe' (interpolating Seyi Sodimu's 1997 Nigerian classic), 'Burning', and 'Free Fall' as lead singles. The world tour built out of the album cycle has run across North America, the UK, Europe, Africa, and Australia, with the venue tier sitting in the upper-end theatre and mid-cap arena range. She is signed to RCA Records globally and runs her own imprint, Leading Vibe Records, in parallel.

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