Tamia And Joe Extend Their Joint Tour
Back in November, Tamia and Joe announced that they were headed out on a joint tour.
The endeavor, simply titled Tamia & Joe, was initially a four-city run, but has since been extended—quadrupling the amount of dates. It begins on Feb. 9 in Washington D.C. and will stop in most major cities including Detroit, Brooklyn, Oakland, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Chicago before concluding in St. Louis on May 4. Tickets are currently on sale.
The tour’s extension was confirmed shortly before Tamia announced that her music hiatus of five years is coming to an end. The songbird has a new duet, “Three Little Words,” with We Sound Crazy podcast host Louis York. It will be available on Friday (Jan. 12) and is set to appear on his new project, Songs With Friends.
Joe also hasn’t released music in quite some time. His final album, #MYNAMEISJOETHOMAS, came out in November 2016. It peaked No. 17 on the Billboard 200 and his record, “So I Can Have You Back,” earned him his fourth No. 1 on the Adult R&B Songs chart.
Of the album being his last, he told You Know I Got Soul, “I love the music 100%, but also I want everybody else to love the music as well. I guess it comes down to if you’re not as successful as sales and you look at the numbers, which can really be a huge, huge impact on whether you want to continue or not. It says to you that it doesn’t matter anymore what you do and bring out. No matter how much hard work you put into it, it’s almost like it doesn’t matter if you put out an album or not. We can deal with a song or two, but not sure about an album. I think that’s the hardest part.”
He continued, “I’m a songwriter. I’m a producer. I’m a musician. When you put those energies and mix them together to try to create a project and it means so much to you and you’re so excited about the release, sometimes some people don’t get a chance to hear it. They don’t get a chance to pick it up. So it kinda leaves you in a place where you don’t know if you should continue.”
Despite retiring from recording, he remains an active performer, toured with Maxwell on The Night Tour in 2022, and has been cemented as a legend in modern television history for giving us one of the greatest theme songs in recent years with “Big Rich Town” from Power.
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