Frontier Touring are excited to announce the debut Australian tour for Tems, with headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne this September and October!  

The Lagos, Nigeria-based singer-songwriter will play hotly anticipated shows at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on Tuesday 26 September and Melbourne’s Forum on Tuesday 3 October. Tems will also perform at Promiseland Festival on the Gold Coast in October, alongside Lauryn Hill, Giveon and more.  

Frontier Members can access pre-sale tickets from 12pm AEST on Wednesday 7 June, ahead of tickets opening to the General Public at 2pm AEST on Thursday 8 June. Tickets and further information can be found at frontiertouring.com/tems  

Tems is a singer/songwriter/self-taught producer that writes, arranges and produces her music with a genre-blending sound that fuses R&B with soul, reggae and more in her own unique way. Over the past few years, she has been on a steady ascent beginning with the release of her early singles ‘Mr Rebel’ and ‘Try Me’.  

She has featured on international hits ‘Fountains’ with Drake and ‘Essence’ by Wizkid, as well as Future’s ‘Wait for U’, which picked up a Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance earlier this year. Her collaborations continue, with a feature on the remix of Khalid and Disclosure’s ‘Know Your Worth’.  

Tems’ two EP’s – 2020’s For Broken Ears and 2021’s If Orange Was a Place – have been praised by critics, fans and peers, receiving nods from Adele, Drake and more. She is working on an anticipated studio album due for release later this year.   

“… one of the African diaspora’s most intriguing artists.” – Rolling Stone

“she’s a star, and every single makes this fact more clear” – Pitchfork

Stunning live performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series display the incredible raw talent of this enigmatic artist, with NPR describing Tems’ twenty minute set as an “elegant and soothing performance”. NME’s five-star review of her debut 2022 Glastonbury set echoes the sentiment, hailing the performance as a “tear-jerking impassioned set of pure musical fun”.  

Her 2022 track ‘Free Mind’ sold 1 million units in the US, becoming Tems’ third Platinum song, debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 at No.46 and topping the Billboard Afrobeats Chart. Touted as an “honest confessional” and Tems at her “best vocal delivery and lyrical dexterity” by Native, the song recently broke Billboard’s female record for most weeks at No.1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay Chart, spending a huge 17 weeks atop the list earlier this month.   

With upwards of 1 billion video views, 2 billion audio streams and 14 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, Tems’ has garnered a broad fanbase both in her native Nigeria and right across the globe. Her deep, velvet tones and understated talent is selling out iconic venues around the world and will captivate Australian music lovers when she takes the stage later this year. Don’t miss Tems in September when she makes her Australian debut!