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Lauryn Hill To Headline Stockholm Jazz Festival, Plots European Tour

4/21/09, 9:13 am EST

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Reclusive R&B-hip-hop star Lauryn Hill will reportedly be making a comeback this summer. The former Fugee will headline the Stockholm Jazz Festival, taking place July 15-19th in the Swedish capital. Hill previously booked a date at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival for July 11th, and according to the AP, an organizer for the Stockholm fest says Hill will in fact perform 10 shows in Europe this summer. Hill also headlined the Stockholm Jazz Festival in 2005.

Hill appearances in recent years have been few and far between. We last saw her in October 2008, when she was hanging out with Martha Stewart at a New Jersey book signing. Before that, we caught Hill two-hour-plus performance filled with Miseducation of Lauryn Hill tracks, Bob Marley songs and the Fugees’ greatest hits when she played a free show in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights area in August 2007. That same summer also produced the first new Lauryn Hill song in a while, as the mother of five contributed the track “Lose Myself” to the soundtrack for the surfing penguins animated flick Surf’s Up.

Hill has reportedly been working on new music since 2004, but has pretty much only released songs for soundtracks. (Hill also recorded “The Passion” for the Passion of the Christ: Songs compilation in 2004.) Not counting 2002’s MTV Unplugged 2.0, Hill’s lone proper solo album is 1998’s five-Grammy-winning The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. In August 2008, to mark the 10th anniversary of Hill’s landmark album, Rolling Stone spoke to many of those involved with the making the LP for an exclusive oral history. As for those other Hill European concerts, pretty much every Website dedicated to Hill — from her official site to her Sony site to her MySpace page — have lay dormant for awhile, but we’ll post the remaining Hill tour dates as soon as we hear them.

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Shakespeare | 4/21/2009, 5:48 pm EST

No one cares about her anymore! She had the world and than she turned her back on it & went CRAZY! First by saying she hates all white people, secong by telling everyone she talks to GOD? There is a reason why The Fugees havent done another album, because the bitch is in another world and needs help! Hell she has like 5 kids with that Marley dude, who is married to another woman? Yet she goes around saying there married, woman needs help, and it is just sad to see wasted TALENT!

Barnacle Bill | 4/22/2009, 3:58 am EST

she never said she hated white people, she was wondering why so many liked her music. Shakespeare, give that name back to the original poet. you need more help than Lauren.

TATE | 4/22/2009, 10:05 am EST

i second that bill. and i’d watch who i was calling a ‘bitch’. misogyny doesnt look good on you. especially since shakespeare may have been a woman ( see the scholarship of john hudson–pretty convincing.) since this is rolling stone and not ‘the watchtower’, i’d also try a little less brimstone and a lil tenderness when it comes to addressing mz hill’s public struggles with celebrity and her convictions. easy to pretend we have no skeletons of our own up here in glass house cyberspace. end of the day, lauryn hill is a phenomenal talent and all i’m fit to judge as a fan is what she puts on disc, mp3 or the stage. compassion and a civil tongue never hurt anybody either dude.good karma builders.

D. | 4/22/2009, 3:20 pm EST

She is also going to appear on Ejekt festival in Athens on the 19th of June if I m not mistaken.

cmanskar | 4/22/2009, 4:29 pm EST

she is brilliant the miseducation lauryn hill is one ofthe best cds ever!! shenever said she hated all white ppl that just didnt happen!we should just let artist be artist and leave them alone!! all i know is the girl is one of a kind and thats all i need to know!!

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