Concert photos | See Lizzo return to Sacramento as Pride month nears
Four-time Grammy award-winning artist Lizzo returned to Sacramento on Sunday night, bringing her Special 2our to Golden 1 Center.
The tour highlights her second studio album “Special,” which was released in July 2022 with the hit single “About Damn Time.” The track won Record Of The Year at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, and was nominated Song Of The Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Lizzo, 35, has a strong following in the gay community and has spoken out against anti-LGBTQ bills across the country. Earlier this year, she filled the stage at a concert in Tennessee with drag queens to protest a new law designed to restrict drag performances in public.
The tour, nearing the end of its third leg, started in September and included a November visit to the Chase Center in San Francisco. Her Sacramento visit fits between a Saturday appearance at the BottleRock festival in Napa Valley and a tour stop in Thousand Palms in Southern California.
In recent concerts, the singer-songwriter has sung Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary” as a tribute to the late music icon.
Latto opens for Lizzo
Lizzo’s previous visit to Sacramento
Lizzo was the headliner for SacPride in 2019, performing on Capitol Mall in the middle of a blistering Sacramento heat wave.
She performed for almost an hour, telling an energetic crowd, “I believe in the power of persistence and I believe in the power of protest. But since I’ve been given this platform today, I want to take a second and say Black Lives Matter, Trans Lives Matter, and if we’re going to celebrate pride, we’re gonna need to keep that energy 365.”
This story was originally published May 29, 2023 at 5:00 AM.