Herbie Hancock

Keyboard master, jazz giant and living legend Herbie Hancock makes his long awaited return to the Sydney Opera House.

At 84, legendary artist Herbie Hancock is a living history of popular music across the past seven decades; a sonic pioneer whose innovations shaped everything from jazz and fusion to funk, R&B and electro. Five years after dazzling audiences at Vivid LIVE in 2019, the 14-time Grammy Award-winner, Oscar-winning composer and Kennedy Centers Honors recipient is set to return to the Sydney Opera House, performing a selection of new music and stone-cold classics from his immense back catalogue.

A musical icon whose work has transcended both genre and era, the Chicago-born Hancock rose to prominence in the early ’60s with his Blue Note Records debut, Takin’ Off (1963), before joining the Miles Davis Quintet, the groundbreaking ensemble that would redefine the sound of jazz with records like E.S.P. (1965) and In A Silent Way (1969). In the ’70s, Hancock launched a chart-topping jazz-funk career with smashes like “Chameleon Man” and the classic Headhunters (1973), while the ’80s found him at the vanguard of hip-hop and electro with hits – including “Rockit” and “Sound System” – that would earn him new generations of fans.