Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Raphael Saadiq hasn’t put out a solo album since 2019’s “Jimmy Lee,” but anyone who’s kept tabs on the legendary musician knows he never idles.
Over the past few years, he served as a key collaborator for Beyoncé on “Renaissance” and “Cowboy Carter,” picking up a Grammy win for album of the year earlier this month.
In 2023, he hit the road for a reunion tour with Tony! Toni! Toné!, and he’s quietly etched a space in TV with scores for “Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” and Netflix’s “From Scratch.” Now, the 58-year-old is bringing it back to basics with his “No Bandwidth: One Man, One Night, Three Decades of Hits” mini-tour, which Variety can exclusively announce.
Saadiq plans to touch down in three cities for a series of one-man shows at Los Angeles’ United Theater on Broadway, New York City’s Apollo Theater and his native Oakland’s Fox Theater.
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