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Kanye West to perform first European concert in more than a decade

US rapper and producer Kanye West gestures upon arriving at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on 11 July, 2025
The rapper will perform at Vitesse Arnhem's GelreDome football stadium in the Dutch city on 6 June, followed by a show in Reggio Emilia, Italy, on 18 July

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is to perform what organisers claim is his first European concert in more than a decade, after he apologised for previous comments about Nazis.

Ye, 48, will perform at Vitesse Arnhem's GelreDome football stadium in the Dutch city on 6 June, followed by a show in Reggio Emilia, Italy, on 18 July.

The rapper headlined the Glastonbury Festival in 2015, during which he performed fan favourites such as Power, Stronger, and Black Skinhead and a shortened cover of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

Ye also joined his Sunday Service Collective choir in Paris in 2020 as part of the city's fashion week.

Last month, Ye took out an advert in US newspaper The Wall Street Journal to apologise for a number of statements about Nazis, Adolf Hitler, and Jews.

He said he was not asking for "sympathy or a free pass" and wanted to earn forgiveness from the public.

He also apologised to the black community, saying he had let them down, and added that a car crash 25 years ago led to him being diagnosed as bipolar.

In May last year, Ye released a single titled Heil Hitler, and he was criticised for posting tweets of an antisemitic nature and describing slavery as "a choice".

Adidas, which produced his Yeezy trainers, severed its ties with the Power rapper in 2022 and donated more than $150 million to anti-hate groups.

Source: Press Association

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