Live Review: Tobe Nwigwe at The Tabernacle

Houston’s iconic Tobe Nwigwe brought his recently closed out tour, dubbed “Home Is WhereThe Hood Is,” to Atlanta on Mar. 30. I’d halfway joked before the show about him “taking me to church” due to his performing at The Tabernacle and his being a man of outspoken faith. I was decently familiar with Nwigwe before this show but, honestly, had no idea how taken to church I’d wind up being. Nwigwe, of Nigerian descent but raised Catholic in Texas, is more broadly non-denominational these days, but fiercely committed to his relationship with God, his family and his community. And in that order, too. Those are the life-areas from which he receives his strength as well in a career the New […]