India’s hip-hop royalty, DIVINE is confirmed to hit the road and embark on a massive 14-city concert showcase kick starting from the last week of November 2021.
Fresh off his massive coup of securing the Best India Act honor at the prestigious MTV European Music Awards DIVINE says, “My second album released right in the thick of the pandemic and I was unable to tour the length and breadth of the country as much as I would have liked to. I enjoy getting up close and personal with my fans and thrive on the energy at my live performances. I’ve been waiting to fulfil the long-pending promise to my fans of a full-fledged tour and I’m grateful I can do it now, after almost two years. I am excited to deliver the live format experience of ‘Punya Paap’ before I dive head first onto my next album. Grab your tickets soon!
Pegged to be India’s biggest album promotion tour thus far, the Punya Paap Tour is produced by SteppinOut by Dineout, Gully Gang Entertainment, Envision and Times Prime. The tour is expected to travel to cities such as Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Udaipur, Goa, Mysore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Kolkata and Shillong. This is a part of the Johnnie Walker presents #ReVibeTheNight campaign.
Fans can expect musical mayhem with the multi-platinum rapper displaying a high energy set comprising widely popular radio mainstays from his 2020 released sophomore album such as ‘Mirchi’, ‘359AM’, ‘Satya’, ‘Mera Bhai’ ‘Punya Paap’ as well as surprise on-stage appearances by frequent collaborators and fellow rappers.
The 11-track album which claimed #1 on Apple Music and Spotify charts (all genre) upon release traverses through the rapper’s triumphs, trials and tribulations at its’ core and features an impressive slew of collaborations such as hip-hop veteran Nas, Grammy winning Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Cocoa Sarai, British Drill rapper Dutchavelli, Grammy winning producer iLL Wayno, London-based dancehall artiste Stylo G, Indo American singer-songwriter Lisa Mishra, Gully Gang associates D’Evil and MC Altaf.
Culminating in the last week of January 2022, the tour will abide by all COVID guidelines. DIVINE a.k.a. Vivian Fernandes’ ascent has been no ordinary chronicle. From gully-based productions to debuting his album with Mass Appeal India to launching his own label and entertainment conglomerate Gully Gang Entertainment to being the first Indian rapper’ to be featured on Spotify Times Square Billboard in New York City, the rapper continues to be in a musical league all his own, imprinting hip-hop in the cultural consciousness of India! With a vision of taking Indian hip hop to the world, the rapper inked a worldwide publishing deal with one of the world’s most reputed music publishing companies, Reservoir.
