'We’re all really happy to be back together after so long:' Madison Beer opens up about European tour and new music
15.04.2022 - 09:37
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
After releasing her debut album last year, American pop star Madison Beer is finally back on the road.
She's halfway through the European leg of her Life Support tour, visiting 22 cities in 14 different countries. Just more than two years since the pandemic began, which disrupted the music industry and halted tours globally, Madison is glad to be performing live again.
"It's really crazy to be back, I’m really, really happy," she says of the tour. "I love my European fans so it’s good to be back in front of them. And I think we’re all really happy to be back together after so long."
The 23-year-old is set to perform in Manchester on Good Friday, for the first time in four years. “I remember you guys have a funny nickname for yourselves, right?” she recalls, referring to ‘Mancunians’ and ‘Mancs.’ “It’s definitely a fun place to be and I’m excited to come back!”
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Madison’s debut album Life Support and its subsequent tour have been a long time coming. Barely a teenager, the New Yorker signed a record deal after Justin Bieber shared a YouTube video of her singing a Bruno Mars mash-up to his 20 million Twitter followers.
But by age 16 she was dropped, before having the chance to release an album. Nowadays she’s making the music she’s passionate about and is ‘very grateful’ for the path she went on.
In 2018 she independently released her EP As She Pleases, which garnered 700 million streams globally. Soon after she featured on Jax Jones’ and Martin Solveig’s track All Day and Night which peaked at number 10 in the UK charts.
“Every step of the way has been crucial to where I am now so I wouldn’t change anything,” Madison