Whereas Beyoncé is making ready the “Cowboy Carter Tour,” Mama Tina Knowles is preparing for a tour of her personal. This week, Knowles introduced that she is happening tour for her upcoming memoir, “Matriarch.” In honor of the e book’s launch on April 22, Knowles will probably be visiting 9 cities for “Matriarch: An Night with Tina Knowles, Household and Buddies.”
“I’m so excited to take Matriarch on the highway and prolong the dialog past the pages,” Knowles stated in an announcement, per Billboard. “Storytelling has at all times been part of who I’m — one thing I realized from my mom — and now, at 71, I lastly perceive who I really am. This journey has been about energy, motherhood, household, delight and id; I hope these conversations assist others embrace their very own tales and have fun the facility of figuring out what we deserve.”
To assist her inform her story, Knowles will probably be joined on stage by movie star moderators, together with Michelle Obama, Keke Palmer, Tyler Perry, Tamron Corridor, Gayle King, Kelly Rowland, Laura Coates and extra.
“It’s gonna be a very good time! I’m excited to share my coronary heart with you all and have fun the energy and love of all our matriarchs…and you already know I’ll have a number of particular friends and surprises up my sleeve,” Knowles teased on Instagram.
Simply as Knowles gears as much as have fun matriarchs on tour, Billboard introduced that it will likely be honoring Knowles with the “Mom of the Yr” award at its annual Billboard Girls in Music occasion. The mom, businesswoman, and proud grandmother would be the first-ever recipient of the award.
Impressed by “the knowledge that girls move on to one another, era to era,” Knowles says “Matriarch” not solely honors historical past to know the long run but in addition themes of energy, motherhood, Black delight, and id.
“Once I had a household of my very own, I believed that my daughters wanted to know the place they got here from in an effort to know the place they had been going….and the inside knowledge we lengthy to uncover in ourselves,” she wrote on Instagram. “I need to share this information now, one to 1 with the reader, as we snigger and generally cry collectively by way of all of the phases of our lives.”
Knowles’ memoir is out there for pre-order now on tinaknowlesbook.com, and tickets at the moment are on sale by way of Reside Nation. Try the complete record of dates and particular friends for “Matriarch: An Night with Tina Knowles, Household and Buddies” beneath:
April 30 – Washington, D.C.– The Theater at MGM Nationwide Harbor
Particular Visitor: Michelle Obama
Might 2 – Los Angeles – The Wiltern
Particular Visitor: Keke Palmer
Might 5 – Houston – Good Monetary Centre at Sugar Land
Particular Visitor: Kelly Rowland
Might 8 – Atlanta – Tabernacle
Particular Visitor: Tyler Perry
Might 10 – New Orleans – The Fillmore
Particular Visitor: Tamron Corridor
Might 12 – Toronto, Ontario – Danforth Music Corridor
Particular Visitor: CNN’s Abby Phillip
Might 16 – Chicago – Athenaeum Middle
Particular Visitor: CNN’s Laura Coates
Might 19 – Brooklyn, N.Y. – Brooklyn Paramount
Particular Visitor: Gayle King
June 4 – London – Southbank Centre’s Royal Competition Corridor
Particular Visitor: To be introduced
