three-time GRAMMY® Award winner and generational vocal talent Tori Kelly shares a special collaboration: “Wash” featuring rising Filipino-Norwegian artist HILLARI. The new single pairs the duo’s emotive vocals with a raw-hewn R&B backdrop for a comforting tribute to letting love wash over you when you need it the most. Listen HERE via Epic Records.
An emerging international voice, HILLARI will be supporting Tori on the upcoming European / UK leg of her God Must Really Love Me Tour, set to launch next week, November 19, in Madrid and wrap up on December 11 at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town. Find tickets HERE and Tori’s full itinerary below.
“Wash” is Tori’s first new single since her celebrated June album God Must Really Love Me and taps into a similar transcendence. Drawing a straight line from our daily struggles to the divine, the relatable lyrics find both singers conjuring moments when they had to let go of things that were out of their control. Over warm bass that bleeds into gentle shaker and glowing keys, Tori paints a picture of distress: “Broken silence, late in the night / Like a siren, screaming inside / Need alignment for my weary mind.” But as the sound gets richer and their voices intertwine, she and HILLARI find peace on the powerful chorus: “And it washes over me, goes from my head to my feet / It washes over me, ’til it is all that I see.”
The new duet continues a busy year for Tori who, following the release of God Must Really Love Me, toured arenas across the country on Forrest Frank’s The Jesus Generation Tour. She then delivered a stunning NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert backed by an ace all-woman band. That video, which includes Tori’s beloved Sing rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ’Bout a Thing,” has since been viewed over 3.1 million times. She also joined Jamie MacDonald on October’s “A Million Chances.”
With its radiant fusion of R&B, soul, acoustic pop, and gospel, God Must Really Love Me unveils a new dimension of Tori’s sophisticated musicality and singular voice — the outcome of a newfound willingness to let restraint carry as much impact as virtuosity. The songs therein move with an unhurried ease that echoes the effortless confidence and clarity of vision Tori brought to every step of the album’s creation, much of which took place during an undeniable flood of inspiration following her son’s birth late last year.
In a meaningful departure from her previous work, Tori crafted most of God Must Really Love Me’s songs in solitude before heading into the studio with in-demand producers and co-writers like DIXSON (Kehlani, Vic Mensa), Nija Charles (Summer Walker, Kiana Ledé), Emily Warren (Dua Lipa, Noah Kahan), and Ammo (Beyoncé, Teddy Swims). Although the album mostly came to life in Los Angeles with her two main collaborators Tommy King (HAIM, Donna Missal) and Dan Farber (Lizzo, Alessia Cara).
The set’s myriad high points include its sublimely tender title track, an outpouring of adoration for her son adorned with a heart-melting recording of baby Zayden’s voice. The album also launched a series of singles. Tori alchemizes a moment of everyday chaos into a meditation on surrender with “Control,” which she brought to the season finale of American Idol. “Dive,” written while she was seven months pregnant, channels the pure exhilaration of plunging into the unknown. And “Hurts So Good” is a deeply soulful submission to the thrall of real romantic love — watch her take it to On the Radar Radio HERE.
Tori gave open-hearted interviews to EUPHORIA. magazine and The Motherly Podcast discussing the powerful forces and personal milestones that led into her current era, but the music and her mightily expressive performances continue to speak volumes. Stay tuned, and see her live at a date below.
Tori Kelly Tour Dates
November 19 – Madrid, Spain – Wagon
November 20 – Barcelona, Spain – Sala Apolo
November 22 – Milan, Italy – Fabrique
November 24 – Lausanne, Switzerland – Les Docks
November 25- München, Germany – Kesselhaus
November 26 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Eats Music Hall
November 28 – København, Denmark – DR Koncerthuset Studie 3
November 29 – Hamburg, Germany – Docks
November 30 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg
December 2 – Paris, France – L’Olympia
December 3 – Cologne, Germany – Carlswerk Victoria
December 5 – Brussels, Belgium – La Madeleine
December 7 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
December 8 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute Birmingham
December 9 – Bristol, UK – -O2 Academy Bristol
December 11 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town
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