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Jessie Reyez is taking her most personal album to the biggest rooms of her career. Reports published Wednesday by KPRS and WMCL say the Toronto singer-songwriter will headline a 13-date North American tour this fall behind A Little Vengeance, her fourth studio album, opening November 3 at the WAMU Theater in Seattle and closing November 24 with a homecoming show at Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto. Jessie Reyez is calling it the A Little Vengeance Tour, and Live Nation, which is promoting the run, lists the same 13 dates with venues on its official artist page.
The routing reads like a level-up. According to Live Nation's listing, the tour plays Sacramento's Channel 24 on November 5 and Oakland's Fox Theater on November 6, then moves south to the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU in San Diego on November 8 and the Kia Forum in Inglewood on November 9. Phoenix follows on November 10 at Arizona Financial Theatre, with Houston's 713 Music Hall on November 12 and Dallas's South Side Ballroom on November 13. The back half runs through Chicago's Aragon Ballroom on November 16, Washington, D.C.'s Echostage on November 18, Brooklyn's Barclays Center on November 19 and Boston's MGM Music Hall at Fenway on November 22, before the Toronto finale. Arenas and landmark theaters, in other words — not the club circuit where Reyez built her name.
The album she is carrying into those rooms arrived in June through FMLY and Island Records. The KPRS and WMCL reports describe A Little Vengeance as a record about heartbreak, relationships, self-reflection and moving forward, and its guest list underlines how wide Reyez's world has become: Ty Dolla $ign, Muni Long, D Smoke, Lekan and RAAHiiM all appear, and the album even threads in a sample of Bob Marley — a reggae heartbeat inside an R&B record built on confession.
The Music Universe, which covered the tour announcement, pointed to the singles that set the album up: "99%," an unapologetic burst the outlet called a defining moment; "Ur Heartbeat (Who Do U Think About at 2 AM?)," vulnerable and reflective; "Ain't U Tired," a tender duet with Muni Long; and "N.Y.F.F.," a sharp, rap-sung kiss-off. Together, The Music Universe wrote, they previewed the record's signature duality — tender vulnerability on one side, razor-sharp retribution on the other. SeatGeek's tour summary notes the album debuted on the Billboard 200 with 11,000 equivalent album units in its first week, a modest commercial footprint for a record whose reach has always run through devotion more than volume.
What separates this tour from a standard album cycle is where some of the money goes. Both the Wednesday reports and The Music Universe note that a portion of proceeds from the tour will benefit the Jessie Reyez Fund, which Reyez launched with the nonprofit partner PLUS1 on the same day the album was released. The fund is aimed at expanding opportunities for women and historically underrepresented communities in music, and at supporting programs in underserved communities — turning each ticket into a small piece of infrastructure for the next generation of artists trying to get into rooms like these.
Reyez has stayed visible all year. The KPRS and WMCL reports note that on the day A Little Vengeance was released, she performed "Illuminate," her collaboration with Elyanna, at the FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in Toronto — a hometown global-stage moment that doubled as an album launch. The new tour also follows her 2025 album Paid in Memories and the sold-out headline world tour that came with it, a run that proved she could fill theaters on the strength of songs that treat heartbreak like evidence.
The Music Universe frames this as Reyez's sixth headlining tour and her biggest venues to date, and SeatGeek says the same: a step up in scale that has been building since she broke through as the writerly, bruised-heart voice behind some of the most quoted R&B of the last decade. That is the story of this announcement underneath the dates. Reyez never chased the middle of the road; she built a catalog out of the exact things polite pop edits out — the 2 a.m. thoughts, the score-settling, the tenderness that survives both — and the audience for it has grown big enough to fill the Kia Forum and Barclays Center.
For R&B fans, the November window makes the tour one of the fall's anchor events: thirteen cities, three weeks, and a live show built around an album that asks to be heard in a room full of people singing the sharp parts back. Tickets for all dates are listed through Live Nation. If the Paid in Memories run sold out on smaller stages, the advice writes itself — do not wait on the Toronto date.
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