{"id":591120,"date":"2026-05-18T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591120\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:32:16","slug":"gabriella-cilmi-to-open-for-beverley-knight-in-ipswich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591120\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriella Cilmi to open for Beverley Knight in Ipswich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Gabriella Cilmi, best known for her hit Sweet About Me, will support Beverley Knight on her Born To Perform tour which kicks off in June.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They will be at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/topics\/ipswich-regent-theatre\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ipswich Regent Theatre<\/a> on Tuesday, June 2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Australian singer gained global recognition as a teenager and has since taken an independent path in her music career, releasing the album The Sting in 2013 and the EP The Water in 2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/newsletters\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for the What&#8217;s On newsletter to keep up to date with the latest event news<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Gabriella Cilmi rose to fame as a teenager (Image: Gabriella Cilmi)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her breakout single has now amassed nearly one billion streams on Spotify, with two UK top 10 hits to her name.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Cilmi is gearing up for the release of a new record, under new management and on a new label.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Her latest single, Pure Love, is already out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;Pure Love is about unconditional love.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It\u2019s about the love that I believe we are born with and are entitled to simply because we exist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I wanted this song to feel like a mantra of self love, a prayer, or a magic spell that can be played as a reminder of that.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Beverley Knight is coming to Ipswich in June (Image: PA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichstar.co.uk\/news\/25521485.beverley-knight-announces-ipswich-tour-date-2026\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Beverley Knight\u2019s Born To Perform UK<\/a> features her biggest hits, musical theatre favourites, and personal stories from her time on stage.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She will perform in Ipswich on Tuesday, June 2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Knight said: &#8220;I\u2019m excited to get back on the road, but with a different kind of show folk are used to with me.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;&#8216;Born to Perform&#8217; is me taking you on a journey through my life on both music and theatre stages, using my memories and, of course, my songs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I\u2019m stripping back my sound so the audience can lean in a little closer and really hear my soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriella Cilmi, best known for her hit Sweet About Me, will support Beverley Knight on her Born To&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}