I Am... (Beyoncé tour)

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I Am... Tour (also referred to as the I Am... World Tour) was the fourth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Beyoncé, in support of her third studio album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), consisting of 110 concerts across six continents. Two months of preparations for the tour began eight months prior to its commencement, with daily twelve-hour rehearsals. The tour was announced in October 2008, and began in March 2009 with five preliminary ’rehearsal’ shows in North America. Beyoncé has described the I Am... World Tour as her best and most theatrical of all of her tours. The set list for the tour included songs from Beyoncé's previous three studio albums, several covers of songs by other artists, as well as a Destiny's Child medley. The central theme of the tour was to showcase the differences between Beyoncé's dual ‘personas’—her real, ‘Beyoncé's self compared to her confident, sexier stage-persona, ‘Sasha Fierce’—a theme which was also explored on her then-album, the dual record...

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