Rosalia announces 2022 'Motomami' world tour, including October concert in San Diego

Rosalia announces 2022 ‘Motomami’ world tour, including October concert in San Diego

Rosalía performs on stage at the 62nd Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles

The singing sensation from Spain, who has won eight Latin Grammy Awards, will perform 46 concerts in 15 countries across Europe and North and Latin America

San Diego Union-Tribune

April 19, 2022 6:30 AM PT

Spanish vocal sensation Rosalía is mounting an extended world tour that will see her perform 46 concerts in Europe and across North and Latin America.

The tour is in support of her third and newest album, “‘Motomami,” one of the most acclaimed releases of the year so far. It will include an Oct. 2 concert at Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at San Diego State University, marking the eight-time Latin Grammy Award winner’s debut here.

The tour kicks off in Rosalía’s native Spain on July 6 and concludes Dec. 18 in Paris. The U.S. leg opens Sept. 15 in Boston and concludes Oct. 22 in Miami.

Rosalía, 28, is a native of Sant Cugat del Vallès, which is in the Catalonia region of Spain. Flamenco music originated in the country’s Andalusia region, about 435 miles away. Her songs fuse flamenco, pop, R&B and other styles into an exhilarating, borders-leaping blend.

Tickets for the U.S. leg of her tour go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

A pre-sale for Rosalía’s Oct. 2 San Diego concert begins at noon today for American Express card members at ticketmaster.com. A presale for Verizon Up members begins Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Here are the U.S. dates for Rosalía’s 2022 tour:

Sept. 15 – Boston, MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Sept. 18 – New York, Radio City Music Hall

Sept. 19 – New York, Radio City Music Hall

Sept. 23 – Toronto, Budweiser Stage

Sept. 26 – Washington, D.C., The Anthem

Sept. 28 – Chicago, Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom

Oct. 2 – San Diego, Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre

Oct. 4 – San Francisco, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Oct. 7 – Inglewood, YouTube Theater

Oct. 8 – Inglewood, YouTube Theater

Oct. 12 – Houston, 713 Music Hall

Oct. 14 – Irving, Texas, The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory

Oct. 17 – Atlanta, Coca-Cola Roxy

Oct. 22 – Miami, iii Points Festival

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San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”