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Ms. Lauryn Hill
to perform two Australian
headline shows in celebration of
the 25th Anniversary of
The Miseducation of
Lauryn Hill

With special guest Koffee

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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of her all-conquering, GRAMMY Award-winning debut album, Ms. Lauryn Hill has announced a twin-set of Australian arena dates. 

TEG Dainty will honour a quarter-century of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – a record cited as inspiration by the ilk of Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, Drake and Nicki Minaj – with two east coast headline shows.

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Ms. Lauryn Hill will perform at:

Melbourne | Tuesday October 3 – Rod Laver Arena
Sydney | Thursday October 5 – Qudos Bank Arena

Jamaican reggae wunderkind Koffee will perform as special guest.

Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10am on
Thursday August 10, at Ticketek.

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Ms. Lauryn Hill said: “The Miseducation album has been a consistently special artwork that has allowed me to tour for 25 years, sharing the message and energy with its loyal appreciators. I’m not even sure if it feels like 25 years have gone by to me. I’m excited to celebrate this landmark anniversary with the fans in Australia, and I look forward to this time capsule experience. The music itself was born to be anachronistic, at the same time reclaiming precious jewels from the past, and infusing them with the potency and energy of the present, in order to enrich it and the future. Revisiting the album live has renewed my love and appreciation for the music and the period in which it was born, when hip-hop was ripe with potential and uncomplicated enthusiasm.”

“The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is one of the most seminal hip hop and soul albums of our time,” said Paul Dainty AO, CEO and Director of TEG Dainty. “Alongside her work with the ilk of Nas and Aretha Franklin, and of course Fugees, this tour promises to be an unbridled celebration of the most GRAMMY-Awarded female rapper of all-time.”

Born in New Jersey, at a young age Ms. Hill began digging through her parent’s record collection and developing a deep love of both classic and obscure old R&B, soul, and some jazz- she combed through the back-catalogues of the likes of Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin and an army of other seminal artists and their releases on labels like Motown, Staxx, Atlantic, Capitol, and Mercury Records.

After graduating high school, she attended Columbia University in New York as rapper, singer and songwriter alongside Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel of the then up-and-coming musical group the Fugees. Fusing together innovative production alongside socially conscious lyrics that addressed issues of race, marginalization and inequality, the Fugees would go on to become one of the best-selling hip hop acts of all-time. Renowned as one of the most influential and significant groups of the 1990s, their sophomore 1996 release The Score was listed among the 500 Greatest Albums by Rolling Stone, with even Barack Obama naming their single Ready or Not as his favourite song of all time.

In 1998 she launched her solo career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album earning a record-breaking five GRAMMY Awards – solidifying her unimpeachable place in the upper echelons of cross-generational musical royalty.

On her Australian solo dates, which coincide with her headliner slot at the Gold Coast’s Promiseland festival, Ms. Hill will be supported by Jamaican reggae wunderkind Koffee, whose debut album Gifted was dubbed by Pitchfork as one that “imbues the ennui and uncertainty of this epoch with much-needed positivity.”

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Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10am on Thursday August 10, at Ticketek.

Head to https://www.tegdainty.com/ for all ticketing and tour information.

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About TEG DAINTY

TEG DAINTY produces and promotes shows across Australia and New Zealand, the United States, United Kingdom, South East Asia and South Africa. Paul Dainty, President, and CEO of TEG DAINTY was awarded an AM in the Queen’s Birthday 2017 Honours list for his significant service to the entertainment industry as a producer and promoter of national concert tours, theatre and events and has recently also been awarded an AO for distinguished service to the community through the organisation of the charitable stadium concert Firefight following the Bushfires in 2019-20. Paul Dainty’s tours have included Guns N’ Roses, Katy Perry, Michael Bublé, Bon Jovi, Eminem, Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, George Michael, U2, Prince, Yusuf (Cat Stevens), Neil Diamond, Tony Bennett, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Hugh Jackman, Oprah Winfrey and many more. Sports entertainment tours have included World Wrestling Entertainment and Crusty Demons. Theatrical Productions have included Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia!, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Hairspray the Musical, Singin’ in the Rain, Hugh Jackman’s Broadway to Oz and Dame Edna and Barry Humphries’ tours in Australia, New Zealand, United States and the United Kingdom.  Paul and TEG Dainty have also co-presented Disney’s Aladdin and The Phantom of the Opera in Asia and is currently a Co-Producer of The Neil Diamond Musical A Beautiful Noise on Broadway which opened at the Broadhurst Theatre in 2022.  Paul and TEG Dainty are currently producing Tina – The Tina Turner Musical which premieres in Sydney in 2023.

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AMNPLIFY – ML