Ms. Lauryn Hill – Artist In Residence Tour Live @ National Arts Centre
Ms. Lauryn Hill
Artist In Residence Tour Canada 2025
December 19/2025 – National Arts Centre – Ottawa, Ontario
Photos by Mark Kelly/Rocketman Photography
Light rain and a threat of snow couldn’t keep hip hop and R&B fans from attending Ms. Lauryn Hill’s show stop at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa last night.
Ms. Hill’s recent Artist In Residence Tour Canada 2025 tour presented by F7 Live included stops in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Hamilton, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto wrapping up in Canada’s capital.
The eight time Grammy Award winner treated audiences nationwide to a live entertainment environment where music, visuals and experimentation unfolded in real time. Hailing from South Orange, New Jersey, Ms. Lauryn Hill is widely regarded as one of top hip hop artists of all time, and one of the most influential artists of her generation. She continues to break barriers for female rappers, redefining the genre, and is known for launching her style of neo soul to mainstream popularity.
A quick music biography summary highlights her musical group, The Fugees, releasing a remarkable remake of Roberta Flack’s – “Killing Me Softly With His Song” which earned the group two Grammy music awards with the official video now registering over 745 million views on YouTube. Hill went on to record the deeply personal, “Miseducation of Lauren Hill” that went on to sell over 19 million copies, earning five Grammy awards from its release.
Ms. Lauryn Hill’s visit to Canada will go down as a memorable one as all attending were treated to a show from a music legend that featured the creative side of a performer and a working artist in motion seldom seen north of the border.
Set List Highlights:
Everything is Everything
When It Hurts So Bad
Final Hour
Lost Ones
Ex-Factor
To Zion
Why Won’t You Stay
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
Doo Wop (That Thing)
How Many Mics
No Woman, No Cry
Maria, Maria
Guantanamera
911
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Ready Or Not
Fu-Gee-La
