Snoh Aalegra is officially joining the Roc Nation family after the most successful year in her music career. The deal she has signed is an official joint label venture between Roc Nation and ARTium Recordings, a company that she has been signed to for the past five years and was developed by legendary producer, No I.D. ARTium Recordings currently has one of the most esteemed rosters is all of music with acts like Common, Cocaine 80s, Jhene Aiko, Vince Staples, and more. Now, with Snoh Aalegra teaming up with Jay Z's Roc Nation imprint, she's preparing to take her already majorly successful career to the next level in the coming years. 
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At the tender age of just nine-years-old Aalegra, born Shahrzad Fooladi, began writing her own music. At 13, the Persian songstress signed her very first artist development deal with Sony Music Sweden in 2001. Now, after years of hard work and dedication the "Situationship" singer has released two studio albums in the past three years with her most successful being her sophomore musical offering, Ugh, Those Feels Again (2019). The 32-year-old's sonically soothing vibrations allowed her to peak at the 39th slot on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and 76 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart.
With a hit album that has garnered the attention of both R&B and hip-hop purists, the new Roc Nation signee is headed on tour in the coming weeks. Check out Snoh Aalegra's upcoming Spring 2020 Tour dates below as well as a clip from NPR Tiny Desk Concert in the video provided below. The full mini-concert can be viewed, here.
March 18 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
March 20 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
March 21 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
March 24 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
March 27 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
March 28 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park
March 31 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
April 1 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
April 3 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
April 7 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
April 8 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore
April 10 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
April 11 - Philadelphia, PA - TLA
April 13 - Boston, MA - Big Night Live
April 15 - Toronto, ON - Rebel
April 19 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
April 22 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
April 24 - Denver, CO - The Ogden Theatre
Snoh Aalegra Takes Her Velvety Vocals To NPR Tiny Desk
Prayers have been answered.
Snoh Aalegra is one of the most angelic voices gracing R&B at the moment. I’m sure the Swedish-Iranian singer was on many people’s wishlist of artists to appear on NPR Tiny Desk and that dream has now become a reality. Her songs conjure the kind of intimate atmosphere that would obviously translate well to the series’ stripped-back performances.
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Watching her perform her velvety tracks, her singing appears just as effortless as it sounds. Her Tiny Desk setlist mostly consisted of cuts from her 2019 sophomore album, – Ugh, those feels again, which propelled her closer to stardom and earned her Swedish Grammy nominations. From that project, she performed “Love Like That”, “I Want You Around”, “Find Someone Like You” and “Woah”, which received a remixing by Pharrell last week. She dove further back into her catalog for “Fool For You” from her 2017 debut. This song attracted much love through her appearance on the “COLORS” web series.
Snoh Aalegra remains a favorite on our R&B-centric Spotify playlist, “R&B Season”, which is updated weekly with new releases and throwbacks that fit the calming vibe. You can listen and subscribe to that here.
Setlist
- “Love Like That”
- “I Want You Around”
- “Whoa”
- “Fool For You”
- “Find Someone Like You”
A Boogie wit da Hoodie & Snoh Aalegra Got Our "R&B Season" Playlist Sounding Heavenly
Ease into our R&B-centric Spotify playlist.
A few months back, we started our R&B-centric Spotify playlist, “R&B Season”. HNHH curates a bunch of playlists on various streaming platforms, but they are predominantly focused on hip hop. While it may appear that our expertise lies in hip hop, we are great admirers of R&B. As the border between these two genres becomes increasingly porous, it’s hard to be a fan of one without being a fan of the other. However, the distinction remains important when deciding what vibe you’re going for when you turn to your preferred medium of music consumption. R&B tends to be catered for your more mellow moments and there should be a place for you to comfortably retreat into to enjoy those sounds. That’s why we’ve been putting love and care into building up our “R&B Season” playlist.
Since Valentine’s Day coincided with New Music Friday this year, some R&B artists took the opportunity share songs focused on their favourite lyrical theme: love. Snoh Aalegra is the queen of giving us ~those feels~, so we were grateful that she came through with a V-Day offering. It may not have been a brand new track, but it was something equally exciting – a Pharrell remix. Romantic P hopped on “Woah” from Aalegra’s 2019 sophomore album, – Ugh, those feels again. It’s always a cause for celebration when we get to hear Pharrell’s unconventional approach to rap.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie is one of those artists who is incredibly skilled at fusing together trap and R&B. He oscillates between these musical inclinations, as exhibited on his new collaboration with Summer Walker, “Calm Down (Bittersweet)”. The track marks one of the more mellow moments on A Boogie’s new album, Artist 2.0. Anything Summer Walker does is sure to secure a spot on our playlist.
We have no rules against including throwbacks on “R&B Season” and since Valentine’s Day had us reflecting on Kendrick Lamar’s tender 2017 track, “LOVE”, we decided to add to the queue. Grimes also dropped “Delete Forever”, the most gentle single yet from her forthcoming album that we felt fit the vibe of “R&B Season”. The same argument applies to Billie Eilish highly-awaited Bond theme, “No Time To Die”. Enjoy!
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Roots Picnic 2020 Lineup: DaBaby, Summer Walker, & Meek Mill
The lineup for Roots Picnic 2020 has been announced with Meek Mill, Summer Walker, DaBaby, Griselda, Burna Boy, and more.
Roots Picnic has established itself as one of the premier music festivals catering to hip-hop fans around the nation and, this year, with headliners like Meek Mill, DaBaby, and Summer Walker, we’re in for another amazing show. While most festivals pack a weekend full of activities, performances, and music-centric showcases into three days, the Roots Picnic is doing so in one single day, choosing Saturday, May 30 to return to Philadelphia’s Mann Center.
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Questlove officially announced the line-up for the 2020 edition of Roots Picnic, confirming some of the most exciting profiles for performances at the festival. The headliners will surely be enough to bring out a sell-out crowd to Philly but, further down the card, a slew of discovery-worthy names are listed for you to enjoy. The soulful Snoh Aalegra will be bringing her brand of R&B to the stage with Burna Boy, Thundercat, Griselda, Baby Rose, SiR, Buddy, and more all slated to make additional appearances. The Roots will also be presenting a soul showcase featuring the likes of Brandy, SWV, and Musiq Soulchild.
If you’ve had enough of music and you just want to chill and dive into a conversation with some of the top minds in the game, you’ll have a chance to do that too with Elliott Wilson and Questlove both bringing their shows to Roots Picnic.
The event will take place on May 30. Tickets are available on Friday at noon.
