Looks like Maxwell is ready to end his disappearing act.
But the gig is also part of a summer trek that the singer will launch in June.
The 37-date Summer Soulstice tour will take Maxwell across North America on his first major tour since 2010.
The tour launches June 14 in Milwaukee and wraps on August 17 in Albuquerque. He’s scheduled to play the Santa Barbara Bowl before he hits Staples Center.
After Maxwell released his critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning comeback album BLACKsummers’night in 2009 — his first in eight years — he embarked on a mega-successful co-headlining tour with R&B songstress Jill Scott.
Then he disappeared — again.
BLACKsummers’night was supposed to be the first of a trilogy of albums, but nearly five years have passed since its release, and fans have yet to get new music. The second installment was expected to arrive in 2012.
That same year he announced the MaxwellTwoNight tour, a limited engagement of two-night stands in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Newark, New Jersey, in which he planned on performing his entire discography. He was forced to cancel the tour when doctors put him on vocal rest after he developed vocal cord edema and a vocal cord haemorrhage.
Maybe this means a new album is finally on the horizon?
Tickets for his Staples Center date, as part of the 2014 BET Experience, are currently on sale through Axs. More information on other dates, including ticket sales, are available on the tour’s website.
