Found through a cover song at fifteen, Jorja Smith marks a decade in music with her first headline night at The O2 arena.
Jorja Smith, winner of two BRIT Awards, headlines The O2 arena in North Greenwich for the first time on Saturday 17 July 2027. The night comes ten years into her career and is her only UK arena date of the year.
Born in Walsall in 1997, Smith had been writing songs for six years when a friend posted her cover of a Labrinth record online. She was fifteen, and that cover is how she was found.
Her debut album, Lost & Found, arrived in 2018. It set her contralto against songs that borrowed from R&B, UK garage and grime, with lyrics about her own town rather than an imagined one.
Be Right Back followed in 2021 and Falling or Flying in 2023. She releases through FAMM, her own label, and has guested on records by Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Stormzy.
10 Years of Jorja Smith is a retrospective billing, and the show sits inside The O2’s own twentieth-birthday series. She has kept a deliberately slow pace and declined to chase the American market on its own terms.