Donald Glover to headline Xcel Energy Center as his musical alter ego Childish Gambino

Ross Raihala, Pioneer Press
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Donald Glover has revived his musical alter ego Childish Gambino and will hit the road for a world tour that includes an Oct. 2 stop at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center.

Tickets for the show, which will serve as Glover’s local debut as an arena headliner, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Fans can sign up for early access to tickets at thenewworldtour.com. American Express cardholders also have a preorder option that begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Neither the promoter nor the venue announced prices.

Glover, 40, grew up in Georgia and was voted “Most Likely to Write for ‘The Simpsons’ ” in his high school yearbook. He began rapping and creating electronic music while studying dramatic writing at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

In 2006, Tina Fey hired Glover as a writer on her sitcom “30 Rock.” He held that position until 2009, when he took a starring role in the sitcom “Community.” At that time, he also began releasing music as Childish Gambino, a name he took from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator.

Glover spent much of the ’10s focused on music, releasing three albums and a series of gold and platinum singles, including “Heartbeat,” “3005,” “Redbone” and “This Is America,” which topped the charts in a dozen countries.

He also created the widely acclaimed show “Atlanta,” which ran for four seasons on FX, and starred in the films “Magic Mike XXL,” “The Martian,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”

In 2017, Glover first suggested he was retiring his musical stage name. But he toured again in 2018 and played festivals in 2019. He released his fourth album, “3.15.20.,” on the same day as its title. On Monday, he issued a revised version of the record, now named “Atavista,” along with a new video for the song “Little Foot Big Foot”:

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