Photo by Bradley A. Murray Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story Jamila Woods is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her debut album Heavn with a short Stateside tour. The jaunt starts in Los Angeles on November 16 and travels to cities including Portland and New York City before concluding with a hometown show in Chicago on December 6.
“Ten years ago today the OG SoundCloud version of HEAVN was born. My first child! The one who showed me a new version of myself / a portal to who I could be,” Woods wrote on Instagram . “Last night I found a journal entry from 2015, a year before the release. My band M&O had just broken up. I wondered how I would ever learn how to make music ‘on my own.’ Little did I know making music as a so called solo-artist would allow me to connect with even more people & build a deeper relationship with my city than I had before.” The critically acclaimed Heavn saw Woods delving into police violence, Black femmehood, and self-love over soothing R&B.
Read more about the LP in Pitchfork’s 50 Best Albums of 2016 .
Jamila Woods: 10 Years Of Heavn Jamila Woods 10 Years of Heavn : 11-16 Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room 11-18 San Francisco, CA - August Hall 11-19 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom 11-20 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile 11-22 New York, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 12-06 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall