Kanye West free Sunday service performance attracts thousands of people ahead of new album release
A “Sunday service” performance by Kanye West attracted thousands of people to the Wyoming city where he owns a ranch over the weekend.
According to the Billings Gazette, West held the free event Sunday on the grounds of The Buffalo Bill Centre of the West in Cody.
The centre estimates that 3,800 people attended the hour-long event in the Robbie Powwow Garden.
An official says the centre was contacted about renting the facility only two days earlier.
“The whole crowd was so positive and polite,” Levi Meyer, the venue’s PR and marketing manager, told the newspaper. “I have never heard a musical sound so big in Cody, Wyoming. It was unbelievable.”
West performed with a choir of 80 singers flown from California to Wyoming on Sunday morning.
The music included 14 choir pieces focused on worship and nontraditional hymns, as well as reworked versions of songs by No Doubt and Nirvana.
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West recently purchased a ranch property south of Cody.
He's expected to release his new album, Jesus is King, on 22 September.
His most recent studio album was Ye, which debuted in June last year.
Additional reporting by agencies
