Gabrielle - The Hits

Gabrielle brings The Hits to Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth, on 29 March 2027. The Hackney-born singer-songwriter shaped 90s UK pop-soul with a direct pen and a warm, flexible voice that blends R&B pulse and melodic pop. She broke through in 1993 with Dreams, then settled in with Find Your Way and the self-titled Gabrielle, home to Give Me a Little More Time and the duet If You Ever with East 17. At the turn of the millennium, Rise and the Bridget Jones’s Diary theme Out of Reach marked a more mature, open-hearted sound she’s kept refining across Play to Win, Always, Under My Skin, Do It Again and A Place in Your Heart.

On stage, that through line stays intact: supple vocals, unfussy grooves, and songs that move by melody and feeling. This show revisits the tracks that made her, alongside later cuts that deepen the picture, from early radio staples to recent releases. It’s a set built around voice, story and steady rhythm, with space for quiet ballads and mid-tempo sways that have defined her catalogue without straying from her core sound.