Troye Sivan is coming to New Zealand
Troye Sivane. Photo: Supplied
Pop sensation Troye Sivan has announced he will light up stages in New Zealand and Australia at the end of the year.
The singer will play at Auckland's Spark Arena on Monday, 2 December - the final stop of an Aussie/NZ leg of the Something to Give Each Other tour.
The tour, which sold out in Europe, kicks off in Adelaide, followed by a night at Melbourne's iconic Sydney Myer Music Bowl on 21 November. he will then head to Brisbane before a performance at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt on 28 November.
Beyond music, Sivan has made impressive strides in film and television, and partnered with fashion giants such as Prada, Valentino, Gucci, Cartier and Yves Saint Laurent.
His contributions to LGBTQI+ representation have earned him accolades like the GQ Man of the Year award in Australia and multiple MTV Europe Music Awards. His collaboration with Jónsi for the film Boy Erased earned a Golden Globe nomination and an Oscar shortlist for Best Original Song - Motion Picture.
Sivan grew up on Youtube - like many other young people his age, in front of the camera.
"I don't know what I would have done without Youtube, it was so many things to me at the time, a community and a hobby and kind of saved me from boredom. It was also just a release, a creative release for me and it ended up being the thing that catapulted everything for me," he told RNZ's Sunday Morning during an interview for his previous tour in 2019.
When he wasn't posting videos on Youtube, he was travelling, performing within the Jewish community in Australia. "I would get home from these trips and just be kind of bored."
He was also coming to terms with his identity and his sexuality. Being home-schooled, the online community was not only important to him professionally, but personally, he says.
The 29-year-old recalled coming out, and having the community wrap around him.
"I feel so unbelievably lucky with the cards that I was dealt that now I want to take that and run with it and show it as an option for people so that they can see … you can be whoever you are and still get to achieve everything you've wanted to, and still have a really healthy relationship with your family, and you end up with a really supportive partner - all of those things that I feel lucky to have in my life. I want to scream from the rooftop about them just so that people can kind of see that it is a possibility. It's a world where everything can be more than OK while you're still staying true to who you are."
Live Nation presale will go live at 11am Monday 15 July. General on sale will go live from 12pm Tuesday, 16 July.
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