“The rapturous debut from the British singer-songwriter takes adventurous pop-rock crucibles to new heights with her illusory songwriting and stunning voice.”
-Pitchfork (8.3, Best New Music)

“Her voice is the center of the galaxy”
-Wall Street Journal

“Bona fide indie anthems“
-The Guardian

“On her debut album, Miss Universe, Yanya has pulled one more trick from her sleeve: crafting an entire world unto herself.”
-NPR (First Listen)

“Yanya oozes starpower”
-MTV

The brilliant British songstress Nilüfer Yanya kicked off a headlining North America tour with a sold out show at NYC’s Music Hall of Williamsburg and her worldwide TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She performed “In Your Ahead” from her album Miss Universe marking her first TV appearence.

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Yanya is fresh off a Turkish, U.K. and European headline tour which included multiple high profile festival appearances. Her North American tour includes appearances at Newport Folk Festival, Celebrate Brooklyn, XPONential Festival and Osheaga.

Her ambitious and compelling debut album Miss Universe arrived in March packed with stellar singles and powerful songwriting and has seen widespread acclaim from publications including NPR (First Listen) and Pitchfork who awarded the album Best New Music. Largely recorded in the same remote English studio she used to jam in with her uncle Joe, a former musician himself, Miss Universe features co-productions with both her former school guitar teacher The Invisible’s Dave Okumu and her live bandmates Jazzi Bobbi and Luke Bower, as well as producers John Congleton, Oli Barton-Wood, Will Archer and M.T. Hadley. Inventive, expressive and rapturous, the album has seen Yanya deservedly hailed as a true original and a vitally important new voice in indie-rock.

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See Nilüfer Yanya on tour in 2019: 

July 24 – Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall

July 25 – Brooklyn, NY @ Celebrate Brooklyn Prospect Park

July 26 – Xponential Festival, New Jersey

July 27 – Newport Folk Festival, Rhode Island

July 30 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

July 31 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village [SOLD OUT]

August 2 – Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx

August 3 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern

August 4 – Osheaga Festival, Montreal

August 8-12 – Belle & Sebastian Boaty Weekender

August 15-18 – Pukkelpop Festival, Belgium

August 15-18 – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales

August 24 – Future Yard Festival, Birkenhead Town Hall

August 25 – This Must Be The Place Festival, Headrow House, Leeds

September 21 – Dublin, IE @ Workmans

September 27 – Vancouver, CAN @ Fortune

September 28 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern

September 29 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios

October 1 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

October 2 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room

October 4 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge

October 6 – Austin City Limits Festival, Texas

October 22 – Aahus, Denmark @ Atlas

October 23 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Vega

October 24 – Hamburg, GE @ Bahnhof Pauli

October 25 – Under Your Skin Festival, Utrecht

October 27 – Berlin, GE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg

October 29 – Gent, Belgium @ Turbinzall de Centrale

October 30 – Cologne, GE @ Luxor

November 17 – London, UK @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

November 24 – Madrid, Spain @ Sala El Solo

November 25 – Barcelona, Spain @ Razzmatazz