Louder on the Rooftop, Lucky Daye Celebrates His New Album at the Grammy Museum
Two days before ALOUD! arrives, the New Orleans R&B singer talks and performs on the museum’s rooftop terrace downtown.
The best seat downtown on Wednesday night will be outdoors, on a roof, with the views thrown in. Lucky Daye will take the Ray Charles Rooftop Terrace at the Grammy Museum on Wednesday, October 14, for a program the museum calls The Drop, an evening built around his new album, according to the museum. The program runs from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and pairs a conversation about his creative process and career with a special performance.
The timing is tight. ALOUD!, his fifth album, is due Friday, October 16, on Warner Records, his first project for the label since leaving RCA Records, Rated R&B reported. The record has 15 tracks with guest spots from Leon Thomas, Muni Long, Pusha T, Akeem Ali and the Atlanta rock band The Paradox. Thomas appears on the already released “Fly U Out,” and the set also carries the lead single “Nowhere Fast” and “Talk To Me,” which came out October 2.
The title plays on the tension between “allowed” and “aloud,” and on the idea that an artist does not need anyone’s permission to take risks. Daye put it more simply. “I used to think I wasn’t allowed to do what I wanted. Now I’m screaming,” he said.
The road to that rooftop started in New Orleans, where he found music first in worship, the museum notes, and his name is partly a nod to Marvin Gaye. He moved to Los Angeles and wrote for Keith Sweat, Ne-Yo, Mary J. Blige and Ella Mai before stepping out on his own. His 2019 debut, Painted, earned four Grammy nominations including Best R&B Album. He followed it with the Grammy-winning duets EP Table for Two, the 2022 album Candydrip and 2024’s Algorithm, which featured Teddy Swims and RAYE and the Grammy-winning “That’s You.” He has kept busy on other records too, singing on “Maybe” from his longtime collaborator Victoria Monét’s album Frequency of Love, which came out October 2, Rated R&B noted.
The museum calls him a two-time Grammy winner and promises rooftop views, a café and a cash bar before the program. Member check-in opens at 6 p.m. and doors open for everyone else at 6:30 p.m.
The rules are strict. Tickets are will-call only and cannot be transferred or resold, a valid physical ID is required, and bags must be 9 by 6 inches or smaller. Cameras, vinyl and memorabilia are not allowed, and there is no re-entry. Tickets and details are on the Grammy Museum’s event page.
