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Legendary blues icon Taj Mahal is coming to The Princess Theatre in Decatur, Alabama on Monday, April 20 at 7PM.Tickets go on sale Friday, November 14 at 9AM via princesstheatre.org
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Taj Mahal is a towering musical figure — a legend who has never abandoned the blues, but instead revealed its vastness, beauty, and global roots. Over more than six decades of touring, recording, collaborating, and exploring, Taj has helped the world understand that blues music is not a stagnant genre, but a living, breathing tradition with tendrils reaching into rock, gospel, folk, Caribbean rhythms, African traditions, and beyond.
Born in Harlem in 1942 to musical parents — a jazz pianist father with Caribbean roots and a gospel-singing schoolteacher mother from South Carolina — Taj grew up in a home where personal history, culture, and the arts were all part of daily life. Over the years he has become a multi-instrumental marvel, proficient on roughly twenty instruments and counting.
His impact continues to grow. His 2022 Grammy win for Get On Board with Ry Cooder, followed by another Grammy for Swingin’ Live at the Church Studio in Tulsa with his Sextet, brought his Grammy tally to five wins and sixteen nominations. He is a member of the Blues Hall of Fame, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association, and is a 2025 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree.
More than fifty years after his solo debut, Taj Mahal remains profoundly relevant — still innovating, still surprising, still teaching the world that the blues is a universe.
For more show info and tickets, visit princesstheatre.org
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The Princess Theatre, 112 2nd Ave NE,Decatur,AL,United States
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