Kenny G to play one gig at the Coca-Cola Dome
International songwriter and musician Kenny G is to perform at the Coca-Cola Dome, Joburg, at 8pm on Thursday, 20 November 2014. Tickets go on sale at Computicket tomorrow, Thursday, 3 July.
In a recording career that spans almost three decades and 23 albums, Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Kenny G has grafted elements of R&B, pop and Latin to a jazz foundation solidifying his reputation as the premiere artist in contemporary jazz. Since the early 1980s, his combination of instrumental chops and indelible melodies has resulted in sales of more than 75 million records worldwide and more than a dozen climbs to the top of Billboard's contemporary jazz chart.
In 1982, he landed a record deal with Arista and launched a solo career with three jazz albums: "Kenny G" (1982), "G-Force" (1983), and "Gravity" (1985). By the '90s, he was a multi-Platinum seller and a frequent collaborator with some of the most iconic figures in American popular music, including Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole and Frank Sinatra. His subsequent studio albums, "Silhouette" (1988) and "Breathless" (1992), were hugely successful, the latter selling more than 12 million records in the US alone and spawning the Grammy-winning single, Forever In Love.
The best-selling holiday album of all time
Other career highlights include "Miracles", a 1994 holiday album that took him to the top of the Billboard chart for the first time and has since become the best-selling holiday album of all time. His two holiday albums since then: "Faith" in 1999 and "Wishes" in 2002 have been similarly successful. "At Last...The Duets Album", released in 2004, featured performances by Barbara Streisand, Burt Bacharach and LeAnn Rimes, along with a remake of Outkast's The Way You Move, with Earth, Wind and Fire.
Book at Computicket by calling 0861 915 8000, go to www.computicket.com or your nearest Computicket service centre. For more tour information, go to www.KennyG.com or www.canoc.co.za.
