This singer, songwriter, musician and producer will be in South Africa to perform two concerts on Thursday, 5 December at Cape Town’s Grandwest and Saturday, 7 December at the Coca-Cola Dome, Johannesburg. Both concerts begin at 20:00. Tickets go on sale from 09:00 on Thursday, 5 September at Computicket.
“We are bringing this Maxwell concert to SA since we want people to connect with each other through a shared experience and create special moments, as they are serenaded by the velvety-smooth voice of Maxwell. Our Castle Milk Stout Unplugged platform is about celebrating live, unplugged music, which is rich, smooth and deserves to be savoured, just like our beer. We believe that Maxwell’s music really embodies what our brand is about,” says Castle Milk Stout general manager, Julian Remba.
Castle Milk Stout has partnered with the acclaimed concert promoters, Canoc Productions, to bring one a one-of-a-kind concert experience. “December is the time of the year when Canoc Productions brings a mega star to South Africa. We are proud of our track record of staging three consecutive sensational urban concert tours and now, we welcome Maxwell, arguably one of the world’s greatest R&B singers to grace our shores,” says Pleasure Letsoalo, managing director and founder of Canoc Productions, who previously also brought Trey Songz, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Chris Brown to South Africa. “Maxwell’s performances are going to be a 'black summer’s night' to remember,” added Letsoalo.
Maxwell's talents are recognized with a host of international music awards and nominations. He received twelve
Grammy Awards nominations and two awards at the 2010
Grammys for Best R&B Album for
BLACKsummer’sNight and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for
Pretty Wings also from
BLACKsummers’Night. During the same year, Maxwell received an
Image Award for the most Outstanding Male Artist.
Throughout his singing career of more than 20 years, Maxwell has been nominated 25 times for various awards including the
BET Awards, the
American Music Awards and the
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. He has received four
TRAIN Awards in various R&B/Soul categories in 1996, 2000, 2009 and the 1999
Billboard Music Award for R&B Single of the Year
Fortunate. This mega entertainer has also performed at the
Grammy Awards and the
BET Awards and he has appeared on television network shows including
The Jay Leno Show, the
Late Show with David Letterman,
Good Morning America and
CNN Heroes.
Maxwell’s music spans the genres of R&B, funk, neo soul and jazz. He released his debut album
Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite which went on to sell over two million copies, earning him double platinum status and a
Grammy nomination. His second album
Embrya followed and a live album
MTV Unplugged was next. A year later Maxwell released
Fortunate, a single written by R. Kelly and featured on the soundtrack for the 1999 film,
Life. Maxwell’s third album
Now reached number one on both the Billboard 200 album chart and Billboard’s R&B album chart. After taking an extended hiatus from the music industry, Maxwell returned with
BLACKsummers’Night which became his second album to reach number one on the Billboard Albums Top 200 chart. The second album in the trilogy
Summers will be out in 2014.
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