AT&T Turn Up The Love is going on tour! That’s right – throughout the month of June, AT&T will bring a dedicated live event to its Flagship stores in San Francisco, Chicago and Dallas, with immersive in-store experiences and live performances headlined by singer-songwriter and current US touring artist, VINCINT, and hosted by drag superstar, Silky Nutmeg Ganache.
The tour is following the last leg of VINCINT’s The Getaway Tour. VINCINT will be joined by some of his tour-opening artists and select supporting artists for a special performance at each Flagship location. And it’s all to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and to raise awareness of the life-saving services of The Trevor Project.
Get complimentary tickets to an AT&T Turn Up the Love Tour event. Select your city below:
June 4th, 2022 – AT&T 1 Powell, San Francisco.
June 17th, 2022 – AT&T Michigan Ave., Chicago.
June 24th, 2022 – AT&T Discovery District, Dallas.
AT&T Turn Up The Love continues to advance its mission to amplify LGBTQ+ voices and harness the power of musicians and artists as universal truth-tellers to create awareness of the importance of love and acceptance. For this tour, AT&T collaborated with VINCINT to identify several incredibly talented artists to join the line-up of each tour stop.
To tell the unique stories of each of these artists, AT&T Turn Up the Love is back with a new social content series, Take Me Higher, produced in partnership with Rainbow Media Co. This multi-episode series will feature interviews, exciting footage from The Getaway Tour, and conversations with VINCINT and his opening artists who gain insights from the expert singer-songwriter as they pursue greater possibilities for their musical careers.
Take Me Higher will debut on Rainbow Media Co.’s owned Instagram handles (@lgbt, @lgbtq, @pride, @queer, @gayety) and AT&T’s Flagship handles (@attmichiganave, @att1powell, @attdiscoverydistrict) and will be featured in Flagship stores beginning in June.
AT&T Presents: Turn Up The Love Tour
June 4th, 2022 – AT&T 1 Powell, San Francisco.
June 17th, 2022 – AT&T Michigan Ave., Chicago.
June 24th, 2022 – AT&T Discovery District, Dallas.
Emerging Talent
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Yavin
Yavin’s place in the pop music discussion has been growing since 2019, the year his fun hobby quickly morphed into a life passion. Features in Billboard, Xtra Magazine, Vanyaland, Pride.com, WBUR, and a Grindr social media takeover have helped achieve a career total of over 300,000 streams; which has consequently led to multiple Boston Music Award nominations alongside artists such as Clairo, Frances Forever, and Sasha Sloan. He’s landed opener slots for acts such as VINCINT, Slayyyter, and Cupcakke, and with this kind of momentum “a bright future” for Yavin would be quite the understatement. |
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brayla
brayla is a 22 year old singer-songwriter, popularly known as bray’s anatomy. She is a Dallas native, now representing the east coast after graduating college. brayla has been performing since she was in elementary school, pursuing music as a career within her years as a pre-teen; having the opportunity to experience music as a child hands-on, as she sat in on her family’s rehearsals for church and her brother’s band during sessions. Her repertoire consists of R&B/Soul, Hip-Hop and Jazz with Gospel influences where she highlights the significance of background vocals as it relates to the importance of a song. brayla’s first EP, “Things You Do”, was released in August of 2019 during her time as a student of Berklee College of Music where she majored in Songwriting. After graduating, her focus has been to grow as an independent artist, showcasing her musical freedom of expression and encouraging others to do the same. |
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Wuhryn Dumas
Wuhryn Dumas is an androgynous queer artist born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Heavily inspired by Prince, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Bilal, Tina Turner and Beyonce, Wuhryn brings a new zesty and festive sound to the musical stratosphere. With a larger than life stage persona, Wuhryn’s sound is a blend of Pop/R & B music with hints of funk & soul. With a hit single & music video titled ‘2U’ currently creating a buzz around the world, be sure to check out Wuhryn’s debut self-written 6 song EP, titled ‘Glitter On Fire’ which debuted at #21 on the iTunes pop charts. |
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Boy Untitled (Mark) “Boy Untitled is a Queer recording and visual artist based in Los Angeles. His music – described as “”thought-provoking as it is danceable” – has been featured in such publications as Billboard, Earmilk, Gaytimes, Nylon, and OUT! Magazine. Sonically, he mixes vulnerability with world-inspired dance tracks that jump from transportive soundscapes to vibrant electronica. The result is his own brand of authentic, no-boundaries pop with a simple, but powerful message: “Love will always find a way.” It is for this reason that Earmilk describes Boy Untitled as “a rising star”” and Q Review as an artist “”you instinctively know is going to impact the future of music.” Boy Untitled just released his sophomore project, “Losing Time” and is preparing to release his first collaborative dance project, BOY2K, with producer Boy Apocalypse later this year. For more information on Boy Untitled go to wwww.boyuntitled.com.” |
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Victor Jackson
Born in Atlanta and raised in College Park, GA, Victor Jackson has worked in entertainment for more than 15 years. His latest EP, MAN.MUSE.MAGIC. debuted in 2020 and peaked at #20 on the iTunes R&B/Soul chart within hours of its release. Victor has appeared on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Braxton Family Values, The Game, Step Up: Highwater, Lovecraft Country, and most recently on Kandi & The Gang with an electric performance of his single “He Belongs To The City”. As a choreographer and creative director, Victor has worked with Jennifer Hudson, Iggy Azalea, August Alsina, Tamar Braxton, and Kandi Burruss. |
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Zach Benson
Producer, songwriter, and musician Zach Benson is no stranger to crafting indie pop perfection. After releasing his debut EP Pretty and reaching over 2 million streams on the lead track “Kissing as the Cars Pass By”, Benson became a force in the LGBTQ+ pop scene. The Richmond-based artist is known for his high-energy synth-pop sound, sweet and confessional lyricism, and unapologetically queer personality. Zach hopes to inspire audiences of all identities to live authentically and love unconditionally. |
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MAR.
MAR. is an American rapper and songwriter whose musical influences are as expansive as his personal style. Growing up in Washington, DC, he fell in love with music and discovered his penchant for storytelling. Indeed original, MAR. has combined his passion for Rap and love of Luxury into a melodic exploration into his lifestyle. His first album “Begin” (Dec 2020) signifies not only a start, but a call to action. His most recent single, the unforgettable “Not The Same” is a self expression anthem that pushes musical boundaries by fusing Pop, and the staccato style of Trap Music. |
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Kady Rain
Kady Rain has been the pop queen of Austin, TX since 2014, and her reign is only getting stronger. Kady uses her harrowing but inspiring life story as inspiration for her music, and whether it’s in-your-face pop punk or pure bubblegum goodness, there’s no spin on the pop genre she won’t try. Her single “R.A.D. Moves” was NPR’s Song of the Summer for 2018, and in 2019 she had the honor of performing at ACL Festival. When she isn’t churning out pop magic, Kady spends her time trying to make her 2 cats, Poca and Brisket, get along with each other (with mixed results). |
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Miss Toto
Miss Toto is a shark tagging, bodybuilding, international DJ/ drag sensation. Outside of being a drag queen, she has taken her passion for philanthropy to raise over 50k dollars for the BLM movement. More recently she created and lead the first annual Drag-N-Tag shark tagging fundraiser for LGBTQ+ youth in Miami. Miss Toto’s other pursuits including producing music, Choke Hole XXXTreme Drag Wrestling, as well as designing a fashion collaboration. It just takes one second after hearing her music until you’ll be saying “#IMINLOVEWITHMISSTOTO”! |
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Senses
LA rock trio senses cultivate a unique pop rock edge by utilizing dark synths, driving guitars, and pounding drums. The band encompasses the true meaning of “belt it out in your car,” priding themselves on their anthemic, relatable songwriting. The band has released 4 singles produced by Blake Harnage (Tate McRae, PVRIS) and have garnered over 130,000 streams from their single “See You Go”. Senses recently made it to the semi-finals in Audacy’s Opening Act competition beating out over 10,000 other bands. In early 2022 senses are back in the studio to record their debut EP. |
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Lagoona Bloo
Lagoona Bloo is New York City’s mermaid pop star. As a member of the critically acclaimed drag pop vocal trio, Stephanie’s Child, Lagoona has appeared with her sisters Jan and Rosé on NBC’s The Voice (alongside Jessie J) and America’s Got Talent. In 2021, Lagoona wrote and released her first two singles, “Greedy With My Love” and “Hands”, along with her debut EP, AQUA. She also wrote and released her smash-hit holiday bop, “Bloo Christmas.” She most recently dropped her first single of 2022, “C U Tonight”. |
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Fly By Midnight
Fly By Midnight is an LA based indie-pop and visual collective duo. Justin + Slavo have rapidly generated independent buzz by redefining what it means to be “DIY”. Releasing original pop anthems, music videos, collaborations and features, at an unprecedented frequency seen in the pop genre before, they’ve built a cult following domestically & internationally. With over 320,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel and 3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Fly By Midnight has been praised by tastemakers such as Billboard, Buzzfeed, Nylon, Huffington Post, MTV, and more. |
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Malia Civetz
“Malia Civetz pushes buttons by way of powerhouse vocal delivery, sharp songwriting and a thoughtful overarching message. She initially made waves with the independent single “Champagne Clouds” debuted by Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS FM show “On Air With Ryan Seacrest” and championed by Taylor Swift on her Apple Music and Spotify “Favorite Songs” playlists. Malia made her major label debut on Warner Records in 2020 with her first EP, The Flip–featuring the hit single “Broke Boy,” the Yung Baby Tate collab “Love Thing,” and the Alesso co-write “Disrespectful” –garnering praise from Paper Magazine, Billboard, Flaunt, REVOLT, and many others. Malia most recently unveiled her latest EP Heels In Hand, showcasing Civetz at her brash, real-talking best, singing honestly about love and life over tracks you can’t help but sing along to. Surpassing 70 million total streams, Malia is now independently taking charge of her next era of music and is back in the studio working on her next project.” |
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Mario José
Mario Jose is a seasoned singer-songwriter from the San Francisco Bay Area, a Berklee College of Music Alumnus and now resides in Los Angeles, California. Mario has had the privilege to share the stage and studio with music icons including Pentatonix, Prince, Justin Bieber, Meghan Trainor, John Legend, Dua Lipa, Michael McDonald, Philip Bailey and many more! Mario’s music has been featured on MTV’s Movie & TV Awards, the iHeartMusic Awards, and his 2016 Debut EP “Heart Of Gold” premiered at #33 on the iTunes Pop Chart! Most recently, Mario has been working as one of LA’s top Session Singers where you can hear his voice on The Simpsons, Disney Channel Animated Series “The Ghost and Molly McGee”, a Global McDonald’s Commercial for “Sing 2” and on Disney’s “Encanto”! |
