Goapele
Mezzanine
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San Francisco
Saturday, September 17 at 8:30 pm PDT
Outdoor Patio
Nightclub
Concert Venue
Saturday, September 17 at 8:30 pm PDT
Outdoor Patio
Nightclub
Concert Venue
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Tickets are also available service charge free at The Fox Theater's Box Office (located on the 19th street side of the theater) on show dates and on Fridays from noon - 7:00pm, and at The Independent box office (628 Divisadero, SF) Monday through Friday 11am-6pm with a $2.50 service fee.
Goapele (pronounced gwa-puh-lay), which means "to move forward" in Setswana has been doing just that, moving forward and making her presence felt in the music industry since 2001 as an American soul and R&B singer/songwriter.
Goapele's upbringing in her hometown of Oakland, California combined with ethnic influences from her South African father and New York-born Israeli Jewish mother have created a unique artist with a passion for her music and her community. Once called the "spiritual love child of Sade and D'Angelo" by Rolling Stone magazine, Goapele has both a sensuous and serious voice that is making a difference in the music world by blending genres including jazz, soul, and hip-hop, infused with her own poetry.
Following her time getting an education at Berklee College of Music, Goapele debuted her musical talent with a self-released album Closer in 2001. At its peak, Closer was #63 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart. This would not be her only taste of the Billboard ranks. In 2004, her first nationally distributed album, Even Closer, reached #24 on the Billboard Charts for Top Independent Albums. Her other Billboard accolades include her 2006 album, Change it All, which was both #32 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Album chart and #2 on the Top Heatseekers, while the single "First Love" reached #18 on the Hot Adult R&B Airplay.
Goapele's love and passion for the world pours out into her music and her "smoky and sensual" voice, as described by Billboard magazine, is sure to make your day.