A year ago Molly Santana was playing the Bronze Peacock Room at House of Blues Houston — the smaller stage, the room you earn your way out of. On August 6, she’s in the main room, co-headlining with North West on the Kimokawaii Tour. That’s a quick twelve months.
About Molly Santana
Santana is Japanese and African American, raised between California and Japan, where she attended fashion school before music claimed her full attention. Her catalog — Masonic Musik and Windows Up — built a credible independent following, but the step that moved her profile in 2026 was a feature on Drake’s ICEMAN track “Ran to Atlanta” alongside Future. She’s described the collaboration as destiny; Drake followed her on Instagram during the rollout. Her single “Can’t Touch This” cleared 250,000 views in three days. She came off a run on Don Toliver’s Psycho Tour, left Victor Victor Records, and is now with Capitol Records. A 2026 album titled Black Punk is in progress. Houston has seen her in smaller rooms; this booking reflects where she is now.
About North West
Her co-headliner is North West — 13 years old, daughter of Ye and Kim Kardashian, and genuinely her own artist. North West signed to Gamma, Larry Jackson’s label, in February 2026 and released her debut EP N0rth4evr in May: six songs, eleven minutes, described as an “intense update on SoundCloud rap.” The project samples Kanye West’s “Coldest Winter” from 808s & Heartbreak. She had already placed on the Billboard Hot 100 before this — a collaboration with Kanye that made her one of the youngest artists in history to chart — and performed at Summer Smash in Chicago earlier this year. The Kimokawaii Tour is her first headline run.
Venue
House of Blues Houston sits at 1204 Caroline St with a capacity of 1,800. It’s the city’s primary routing stop for hip-hop and R&B acts in this tier — where national tours land when the act has outgrown clubs and isn’t playing arenas yet. For Houston hip-hop, stepping into this room means something.
Tickets
The Kimokawaii Tour plays House of Blues Houston on Thursday, August 6, 2026. Showtime is 7:00 PM. General public tickets go on sale Friday, June 19 at 10 a.m. Grab tickets via Ticketmaster.