BEIJING: Grammy Award-winning rapper, record producer, and fashion designer Kanye West, known as “Ye”, hosts the “Vultures Listening Experience World Tour Listening Party – Haikou Station” on Sunday evening, the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, at the Wuyuan River Sports Stadium in Haikou, Hainan province.
Local authorities reported that all 42,000 tickets for the event were sold out, with 96.5 percent of them purchased by individuals from outside the island province. The cities with the highest ticket sales include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Beijing, and Chengdu.
On Thursday, West took to Instagram to share a childhood photo of himself in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, with the caption: “BACK (I’m back).” West lived in China for one year during his childhood when he moved to Nanjing at the age of 10. His mother was a foreign expert teaching English at Nanjing University during that time.
In 2008, West held concerts in Beijing and Shanghai. This time, he performs in Haikou in a listening party format, with a program lineup that is expected to be different from his previous concerts. Prior to the performance, Haikou faced severe damage to its infrastructure and the western grandstand canopy of the Wuyuan River Sports Stadium as a result of the powerful Super Typhoon Yagi, which made landfall on Sept 6. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
