Digital Pop Star Hatsune Miku Announces First North American Headlining Tour
Hatsune Miku, is, for the uninitiated, a digital pop star from Japan. (She isn’t a real person. She’s a computer-generated avatar.) Fans and professionals alike use her synthesized voice to make their own songs, making her the focus of an international community of co-creators. She has toured with Lady Gaga, performed on “Letterman”, and been remixed by Pharrell.
Miku has previously performed a few shows in the U.S., but in spring 2016, she’s heading out on her first full headlining North American tour.
Kanae Muraki, Director of Global Development for Crypton Future Media (the company that created Miku), says in a press release: “Miku Expo 2016 will be more focused on concerts, but we plan on holding several surprise events in cities with performances and maybe even some cities between tour stops. They will feature collaborations with special guests and new songs, including the winner of a song contest organized during the tour’s build-up.”
Prior to the North American tour, there’s a string of Japanese dates happening as well.
Read Patrick St. Michel’s look at whether Miku can break in the U.S.
Hatsune Miku:
03-23-24 Fukuoka, Japan – Zepp Fukuoka
03-29 Osaka, Japan – Zepp Namba
03-31 Nagoya, Japan – Zepp Nagoya
04-05 Sapporo, Japan – Zepp Sapporo
04-09-10 Tokyo, Japan – Zepp Tokyo
04-23 Seattle, WA – WaMu Theater
04-30 San Francisco, CA – The Warfield (two shows)
05-06 Los Angeles, CA – Microsoft Theater
05-14 Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory
05-20 Toronto, Ontario – Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
05-28 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom (two shows)
Watch Miku perform “Glass Wall” in New York:
Here she is on “Letterman”:
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