Luciano Cancels Zion Awake European tour
In a three-minute, 47-second video on social media, the reggae icon expressed his displeasure with the setup of his tour by his booking agents.
The tour, scheduled start in Bremen, Germany on November 2 was to run through Austria, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, and Italy throughout December. In the video clip, the singer said “I just want to apologize greatly that I have to cancel. Reason being, I don’t like how this tour was planned. I can see it was haphazardly done, and as a messenger, I take pride in my music. I work too hard to bring my career over the years to see my thing going down the drain. I don’t like it… These people book me and don’t even make my manager come; my engineer is sick because he met in an accident, who is my son. And even with that, the people don’t release the importance of me having people around me. A me alone fi tek a plane fi go all the way a Germany? I don’t like these things. With one harmony singer? They know I always have three harmony singers. Where am I going with one harmony singer? Come on, man. Them (the fans) would feel seh mi tun rookie. I want all the promoters and fans bear with me until I set my life and career straight,” Luciano said.
Sterling has issued a release stating, “It’s with a heavy heart to announce that the Europe 2016 ‘Zion Awake Tour’ has been cancelled. I tried my best to save the tour by working with the promoters to ensure that the artist Luciano’s needs were met in regards to adding more people to his travelling crew, and that the shows were professionally produced and promoted. This tour was carefully thought through and put together by T-Boy and myself. We realized it was important to Luciano’s fans to perform in other territories and keep his works moving, so we looked to Europe and Africa to build a tour.”
