Ye - Kanye West returns to Europe after more than ten years with a major live concert, choosing Reggio Emilia for this historic comeback. On 18 July 2026, the RCF Arena will host his first live show on the continent since 2014, which is already shaping up to be the biggest show of his career. An event conceived as an artistic and performative rebirth, designed for a location that is unique in the world and for an extraordinary audience of 103,000 spectators, who will make this an unrepeatable event destined to go down in live music history. YE will headline the new crossover festival format Hellwatt Festival, which will be held at the RCF Arena over three weekends, from 4 July to 18 July, and will be officially presented in early 2026. It will be an unprecedented immersive event, with cinematic staging, bringing Reggio Emilia and the whole of Italy to the forefront of the world's major music events. If you don't want to miss the Atlanta artist's definitive show, hop on the bus with us, we'll take you all the way under the stage for an evening Nah Nah Nah!

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A central and revolutionary figure in contemporary culture, YE has redefined the languages of hip hop and global music with albums that have marked an era, such as Graduation and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The concert on 18 July definitively represents his return to live performance as a total experience and marks the beginning of a new artistic phase, conceived on a monumental scale.

Kanye West was born in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia, and from an early age demonstrated a flair for poetry. He began composing rhymes, approaching hip hop in the latter half of the 1990s. But his first successes came as a producer for Roc-a-fella, going so far as to mix a couple of tracks for Jay-Z's "Blueprint" album. There West already showcases all of his talent and one of the defining characteristics of his work, which is the ability to sample well-known tracks. In 2002 he released the single "Through the wire," based on a personal experience, which swept the American music scene. The song is just one of the extraordinary hits taken from his 2004 debut album, THE COLLEGE DROPOUT, which earned him nine nominations at the 2005 Grammy Awards [...]