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The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer’s return to L.A. will wrap up a brief North American tour where the venues finally felt appropriate to her stature as one of the breakout pop acts of the decade.

The singer, whose full name is Jade Thirlwall, last played in Belfast more than three years ago, where she performed as part of girl group Little Mix.

Three months ago, Zach Bryan, a Navy veteran who rose to become the third-most-popular singer in the U.S. last year, teased a snippet of a song on his Instagram.

On the opening “Destination,” a winding and refracted character study, swooning strings trace the singer’s own sense of wonder, as she describes a fellow musician whose life serves as a mirror to her own.

Gary Barlow, the lead singer of the U.K. pop group Take That, met Martin when he was embarking on a solo career in the late 1990s.