Ayra Starr Confirms Starrgirl World Tour for 2026, Opening in Cologne

Ayra Starr has confirmed a full world tour behind her album Starrgirl, released earlier this year. The run opens in Europe on January 20 at Live Music Hall in Cologne, Germany, and closes on April 14 at The Fillmore in San Francisco.

The European leg moves through Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Zurich and Brussels before reaching London on February 2, where she plays the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire. The North American leg begins March 18 at House of Blues in Houston and continues through Atlanta, Brooklyn, Toronto and Chicago.

The scale of the routing says something about where Afropop sits now. A few years ago, a Nigerian artist with an album this broad in its references would have been booked as a guest on somebody else’s bill. Starr has instead built a following that supports headlining dates across two continents, with London treated less as a market to break than as a second home.

Starrgirl is the record that made that possible. It arrived with international attention, and it gave her room to move between pop, R&B and the sounds of Lagos without settling into one of them. These shows are the first extended chance to see how those songs hold up outside the studio.

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