Sunburn to kick off season 13 with multi- platinum superstar wiz khalifa

~ SUNBURN ARENAS TO ROCK MUMBAI & DELHI IN SEPTEMBER 2019 ~

6 August 2019: Sunburn, Asia’s biggest electronic dance music festival will kick-start its 13th Season with Sunburn Arena with legendary multi-platinum superstar, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa across the cities of Mumbai and Delhi in the month of September 2019. The season’s first Sunburn Arenas with Wiz Khalifa will kick off on 14 September 2019 in Delhi NCR followed by Mumbai on 15 September 2019.

Multi-platinum selling, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa first major label debut album ROLLING PAPERS in 2011 spawned the hugely successful hits “Black and Yellow,” “Roll Up” and “No Sleep” and gave Wiz the platform to win the award for “Best New Artist” at the 2011 BET Awards and “Top New Artist” at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards. His second album O.N.I.F.C. contained his songs “Work Hard Play Hard” and “Remember You” featuring The Weeknd. His third studio album, BLACC HOLLYWOOD, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart and featured the hit single "We DemBoyz." Soon after, Wiz’s track, “See You Again,” off the FURIOUS 7 soundtrack, catapulted to the top of the charts across 95 countries. Holding the #1 spot for 12 consecutive weeks, “See You Again” broke records by being Spotify’s most-streamed track in a single day in the United States and in a single week in 26 countries. In addition to winning 3 Teen Choice Awards in 2015, “See You Again” continued its success by winning a Critics’ Choice Award in the “Best Song” category, winning two Billboard Music Awards in the categories “Top Hot 100 Song” and “Top Rap Song,” earning three Grammy Award nominations in the categories “Song of the Year,” “Best Pop Duo/Group Performance” and “Best Song Written for Visual Media,” and a Golden Globe nomination in the category “Best Original Song – Motion Picture.” Wiz Khalifa’s Weed Farm mobile app has garnered over 10.1 million downloads and is currently being played in over eight countries and six languages. His latest studio album, ROLLING PAPERS 2, released in July 2018 contains the hits “Something New” featuring Ty Dolla $ign and “Hopeless Romantic” featuring Swae Lee.

The very first Sunburn Arena of Season 13 is a build up to the much awaited flagship Sunburn Festival 2019 which is slated to take place at Vagator, Goa from 27th December to 29th December 2019.The Arenas across Delhi and Mumbai will not only see Wiz Khalifa belting out his chartbusting numbers to music aficionados but also feature cutting edge technology, mind-blowing SFX and state of the art production.

Commenting on the much anticipated launch of Season 13 of Sunburn, Karan Singh, COO, Percept Live said, “Given the massive popularity of Sunburn and the ever increasing demand for more Sunburn events and talents across the country, we’re thrilled to kick off Season 13 with the super talented Wiz Khalifa across our primary cities of Mumbai and Delhi NCR. These Sunburn Arenas offer our fans a taste of what awaits them at the most awaited mega Sunburn Festival in December. We are thrilled to present the amazingly talented Wiz Khlaifa to our Sunburn fans and I think it’s a great way to fire-up our 13th season.”

Sunburn Arena is presented by Kingfisher and Magic Moments, and co-powered by Skybags, FastTrack, Toyota, boAt and SpiceJet.

Rashi Entertainment is the officiated Event Partner for the Sunburn Arena Delhi edition scheduled on 14 September, 2019.

The tickets for Sunburn Arena are live on www.bookmyshow.com.

ABOUT SUNBURN

Sunburn, a Percept Intellectual Property, is Asia’s Premiere Electronic Dance Music (EDM) Festival, and is ranked amongst the world’s biggest music festivals. Started in 2007 as a 3 day music festival in Goa, Sunburn has grown to become an aspirational lifestyle brand boasting an eclectic mix of music, entertainment, experiences and celebration that has seeded music tourism in India. Over the past decade, Sunburn has brought together renowned International and Indian artists to entertain hundreds of thousands of dance music lovers across the country and overseas, and positioned India as a prime dance festival destination to the world.

The Sunburn Festival, Sunburn Reload, Sunburn Arena and Sunburn Campus formats have enabled a wide geographical and demographic reach pan India and abroad. Sunburn has the distinction of having brought down to India the world’s top 10 DJs, including Swedish House Mafia, Martin Garrix, Tiesto, Avicii, Hardwell, Deadmau5, Armin van Buuren, David Guetta, Afrojack, Above & Beyond, The Chainsmokers, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Marshmello, Paul Van Dyk, Skazi, Pete Tong, Dash Berlin, and Nicky Romero. Sunburn has also made its successful debut overseas across Colombo, Sri Lanka; Khatmandu, Nepal; Dubai; Muscat; and Melbourne, Australia, thereby creating history to become the first successful indigenous Music IP to cross international shores.

Sunburn is ranked as big as Tomorrowland and Ultra Miami festival as per the IMS APAC Business Report 2014, and has won numerous awards and accolades around the globe including the WOW Awards, BW Applause Awards and Palm Expo Awards.

Sunburn is a Percept Intellectual Property. With capitalized billings of INR 9.35 billion (FY’18), Percept is at an enviable leadership position in the Entertainment, Media and Communications domain with a team of over 400 people and 32 offices across India and the Middle East.

ABOUT PERCEPT LIVE

Percept Live, established in the year 2012, is the live entertainment division of Percept Limited. It owns and manages all the Intellectual Properties created in the Live Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Digital and Media space. Percept has been in the ‘Ideas’ business for the past 35 years and has been instrumental in creating many legendary ‘Intellectual Properties’ in the past for its clients. The creation of a dedicated ‘Intellectual Properties’ business was but a further extension to Percept’s existing knowledge and expertise in the Entertainment, Media and Communications domain with a vision to convert path breaking innovative ideas into Assets in order to create long term value for all its Stakeholders.

SUNBURN TO KICK OFF SEASON 13 WITH MULTI-PLATINUM SUPERSTAR

WIZ KHALIFA Sunburn to kick off season 13 with multi- platinum superstar wiz khalifa