Kehlani in Manchester

Kehlani is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter born in Oakland in 1995. After performing with the group PopLyfe, they released the mixtapes Cloud 19 and You Should Be Here; the latter received a Grammy nomination. Their albums include SweetSexySavage, It Was Good Until It Wasn’t and Blue Water Road, while “Gangsta,” “Distraction” and “Nights Like This” are among their best-known songs. The SweetSexySavage World Tour took Kehlani through theatres and clubs in 2017. In 2018, they joined Demi Lovato and DJ Khaled for North American dates on the Tell Me You Love Me World Tour. Later headline runs included the Blue Water Road Trip in 2022 and the Crash World Tour in 2024.

Odeal is a British-Nigerian singer and songwriter, born in Germany and raised across Nigeria, Spain and the UK. He makes Afro-R&B shaped by soul, Afrobeats and contemporary UK R&B, and is known for songs including “Soh-Soh,” “Be Easy” and “Coffee (Don’t Read Signs),” as well as the project Thoughts I Never Said. The Thoughts I Never Said Tour took Odeal to headline dates in Europe and North America in 2024, bringing the project into clubs and theatres. He later performed an arranged live set for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert.