Lauryn Hill Will Return To Essex County With Fugees For Show In Newark

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Lauryn Hill is returning to Essex County for a 25th anniversary concert – and love is on her mind, she says.

The Grammy Award-winning musician, producer and fashion icon will get some support from her former bandmates, the Fugees, when she comes to the Prudential Center in Newark for a concert on Tuesday, Oct. 17, a quarter-century after the release of her pioneering solo album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”

Hill – who was born in East Orange and grew up in South Orange – will be performing the full album, hopefully conjuring the musical sentiment and nostalgia that caused it to resonate with so many fans in 1998.

The show in Newark is her sole New Jersey stop on the tour. Presale tickets go on sale Thursday, Aug. 24 at 10 a.m. Public ticket sales for the tour begin Friday, Aug. 25 at 10 a.m. Learn more here. See other tour dates here.

Hill and her beloved album have achieved several “firsts,” including being the first-ever hip-hop album to receive an “Album Of The Year” Grammy Award, being the first woman to be nominated for 10 Grammy Awards in one year, and being the first woman to win five Grammys in one night.

According to a news release, the Fugees – who consisted of Hill, Wyclef Jean and Prakazrel “Pras” Michel – will reunite for their first tour in years to co-headline the tour on all U.S. and Canadian dates.

“The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is and was a love song to my parents, my family, my people, my musical and cultural forebears, my teachers, my loves, my Creator,” Hill said.

“I wrote love songs and protest songs— (still love songs) about the subjects and interests that inspired and moved me,” she continued. “I was confident that what inspired me would resonate with an audience that had been led to believe that songs of that kind could only live in the past.”

“I loved music, I loved people, I truly felt grateful to God for my life, and genuinely blessed to have a platform where I could share wisdom and perspective through music,” Hill said. “I felt a charge to challenge the idea that certain kinds of expression and/or certain kinds of people didn’t belong in certain places. I loved showing what could work or happen provided there was imagination, creativity and love leading the way.”

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