Singer Tinashe recently made it known that though she loves touring, the proceeds from that endeavor are usually not enough.
Per PEOPLE, Tinashe, 32, touched on that topic while speaking with fellow singer Amaarae for Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians on Wednesday.
“A lot of people think that you go on tour and you make all this money, win-win,” the 2 On singer said. “But in my experience, a lot of the tours I’ve gone on, I’ve ended up losing money because I have the vision of the creative and the things that I want to achieve.”
She added: “A lot of times, the rooms, the tickets, whatever… you don’t end up getting to that place where you end up net positive. There’s some level of sacrifice if you want to kind of create the vision to the degree that you want to create it.”
Despite touching on the “financial burdens” that come with touring, Tinashe expressed her gratitude for being able “to play bigger rooms and make more money” over the past years.
“But I understand, especially new artists, it’s super tough to be able to tour and to go to these places and these fans and all these different cities that want you to come, and you’re like, ‘You don’t understand. It’s really, like, I can’t get there,'” she added.
And though Tinashe also answered in the affirmative when Amaarae asked if she loved to tour, the former admitted that she has “really hard time doing both at once.”
“Some people can make a project and be on tour at the same time. I feel like I have to give all my energy to the project, and then all my energy to promoting it, and then all my energy to the tour.”
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