Canadian R&B singer Daniel Caesar has joined the pool of international artists who are set to hold concerts in the country this year.
The 28-year-old singer announced on Tuesday that Manila will be part of his Superpowers tour in Asia. The show will be held on July 19 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.
This will be Caesar’s third time performing for Filipino fans, following the Wanderland Music Festival in 2018 and his first solo live concert in 2019.
Asia is the first leg of his world tour, which will also take him to South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, and Japan.
Many know Caesar as the voice behind the song lyrics, “I just wanna see / I just wanna see how beautiful you are / You know that I see it / I know you’re a star / Where you go I follow / No matter how far / If life is a movie / Oh you’re the best part.”
That is the Best Part, his hit song in collaboration with Filipino-American singer H.E.R.
Some probably heard him in Canadian singer Justin Bieber’s Peaches, singing to the lyrics, “I left my girl, I’m in Mallorca / Hate to leave her, call it torture / Remember when I couldn’t hold her / Left her baggage for Rimowa.”
But these songs are not the only Caesar songs that made listeners get LSS. The R&B singer has been making bops since 2014.
You might want to check out these albums to get ready for his July concert.
PRAISE BREAK
The Toronto-based singer-songwriter entered the music industry with his debut EP Praise Break in 2014.
Caesar wrote his seven-track EP and collaborated with Jordan Evans and Matthew Burnett to produce it.
It is composed of the songs End of the Road, Violet, Chevalier, Casablanca, We’ll Always Have Paris featuring Sean Leon, Pseudo, and Porn Star.
Praise Break is not available on the digital music service Spotify, but the singer hosted it in his Soundcloud account.
His debut EP landed in 19th place in Rolling Stone’s 20 Best R&B Albums of 2014 list and first place in Noisey Canada’s Top 10 Projects of 2014.
PILGRIM’S PARADISE
Caesar continued building his name in the music scene in 2015, with the release of his second EP, Pilgrim’s Paradise.
Seven songs can be found on the EP, which are Trinity Bellwoods, Death & Taxes, Paradise featuring Badbadnotgood and Sean Leon, A Capella, Streetcar, Show No Regret, and Little Rowboat.
Pilgrim’s Paradise was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize in 2016. The award is given annually to the best full-length Canadian album based on artistic merit.
In 2017, the EP also got a nomination for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards. The Juno Awards are given by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to artists with outstanding achievements in the music industry.
Paradise, meanwhile, was nominated for the 2016 SOCAN Songwriting Prize.
FREUDIAN
The R&B singer gained more popularity in 2017 as he released his first studio album Freudian.
Freudian is a 10-song album consisting of Get You featuring Kali Uchis, Best Part featuring H.E.R, Hold Me Down, Neu Roses (Transgressor’s Song), Loose, We Find Love, Blessed, Take Me Away featuring Syd, Transform featuring Charlotte Day Wilson, and Freudian.
Freudian snatched the R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the 2018 Juno Awards. It was also a nominee at the 2018 Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album and a finalist at the Polaris Music Prize in the same year.
His single Best Part won the Best R&B Performance at the Grammy Awards in 2019. It also bagged the Best Collaboration Performance at the Soul Train Music Awards in 2018.
CASE STUDY 01
Caesar dropped another 10-song studio album in 2019, titled CASE STUDY 01.
In CASE STUDY 01, Caesar collaborated with Brandy, Pharrell Williams, Leon, Jacob Collier, and John Mayor for Love Again, Frontal Lobe Muzik, Restore The Feeling, and Superposition, respectively.
Other songs on his second studio album are Entropy, Cyanide, Open Up,Too Deep To Turn Back, Complexities, and Are You OK?
Love Again was nominated for Best R&B Performance at the 2020 Grammy Awards.
Meanwhile, the whole album was an R&B/Soul Recording of the Year nominee at the Juno Awards in 2020 and was a Long List finalist at the Polaris Music Prize in 2020.
NEVER ENOUGH
The Grammy-winning singer had his third studio album called NEVER ENOUGH, which was released two days after his birthday on April 5.
The 2023 album contains 15 songs such as Ocho Rios, Valentina, Toronto 2014 featuring Mustafa, Let Me Go, Do You Like Me?, Always, Cool, Disillusioned featuring serpentwithfeet, Buyer’s Remorse featuring Omar Apollo, Shot My Baby, Pain Is Inevitable, Homiesexual featuring Ty Dolla $ign, Vince Van Gogh, Superpowers, and Unstoppable.
Three days after its release, Caesar released the album’s Bonus Version, where he included three tracks: Please Do Not Lean featuring BADBADNOTGOOD, Always featuring Summer Walker, and Valentina featuring Rick Ross.
Please Do Not Lean was nominated for the Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year at the 2023 Juno Awards.
