The curator of this year’s Meltdown comes together with Chineke! Orchestra for a one-of-a-kind concert and unmissable closing night of the festival.
This one-off collaboration brings together the Mercury Prize-winner’s powerful voice and punchy lyrics with the full force of Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra: this is Little Simz like you’ve never seen her before.
Over the past few years, Little Simz has been crowned as one of the most exciting voices to have emerged out of Britain.
Her fourth album, 2021’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, reached the UK top five, won multiple awards and catapulted Little Simz into the big league.
Along with its 2022 follow-up, NO THANK YOU, the album is among the most critically acclaimed records of recent times, establishing Little Simz as a singular voice in British music.
A triumphant Glastonbury Pyramid Stage performance in 2024 proved again the north London artist’s status as a paradigm-shifting talent.
In February 2025, Little Simz announced her sixth album, Lotus, coming out in May.
Chineke! Orchestra is one of the Southbank Centre’s six Resident Orchestras, and it launched here at our Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2015. Made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians, Chineke! champions change and celebrates diversity in classical music.
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