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Highlights From Ruel's 4th Wall World Tour Show In Manila

Plus, if you haven't yet, check out his new newly-released video for his single “SITTING IN TRAFFIC” which was shot in Manila

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Alfred Amado

<p>Australian singer-songwriter <strong>Ruel</strong> is back in the country for his <strong>4TH WALL WORLD TOUR</strong> live at the <strong>Samsung Hall</strong> in SM Aura. After an intimate Valentine’s show at the Venice Grand Canal last February, the 20 year-old rising star happily announced he was seeing his Filipino fans again through his Asian tour.</p><div><br/></div><p>Fresh from his concert in Tokyo, Ruel roamed around the city before his show, sharing a snap on Instagram with the caption: “i’m here!! can’t wait to see you tonight manila.”</p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/40c2533a-d556-4ba0-83b1-03da51b68208_ruel manila .jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Ruel in Manila"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Ruel in Manila</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p><strong>Metro.Style</strong> attended the <strong>4TH WALL TOUR</strong> live in Manila over the weekend. Here are some highlights from the show:</p><div><br/></div><p>Rising Filipino star <strong>Young Cocoa </strong>opened the show performing his own songs including his single “<strong>Manila</strong>.”</p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/82868797-fdc5-4519-be03-623feb438b4e_ruel 4th wall young cocoa.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Young Cocoa"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Young Cocoa</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>In about an hour, the 4TH WALL show began. To promote his debut studio album, Ruel started the show with songs from his brand new record beginning with “<strong>GO ON WITHOUT ME</strong>,” “<strong>GROWING UP IS____</strong>,” and “<strong>YOU AGAINST YOURSELF</strong>.”</p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/692d0c6d-a5aa-4966-9816-df3d3367c7ff_ruel 4th wall manila 1.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Ruel opening the show with songs from his debut album."/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Ruel opening the show with songs from his debut album.</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>“I was only here like two months ago?! Who came to the show?,” Ruel asked the crowd who went to his Valentine’s show in Taguig last February. The fans responded by raising their hands, to which he happily answered back: “That’s pretty much everyone, that’s good!”</p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/ba9a7280-a6e8-4caf-aca6-199bfeae05d5_ruel 4th wall manila 2.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Ruel performs songs from his debut EP ‘Ready.’"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Ruel performs songs from his debut EP ‘Ready.’</span></span></span></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/e3e77d02-3239-4fcd-87c1-74e663f7ec44_ruel 4th wall manila 3.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="The Manila crowd sings along to Ruel’s hits."/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">The Manila crowd sings along to Ruel’s hits.</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>Having been in Manila a couple of times already, Ruel is nothing short of aware, familiar, and well acquianted with the city and it’s culture particularly the Metro’s traffic situation. A newly-released video for his single “<strong>SITTING IN TRAFFIC</strong>” was shot entirely in Manila. </p><div><br/></div><p>He also surprised his fans by having <strong>KZ Tandingan </strong>perform a duet with him on stage.</p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/2d4a7d8a-a7cc-4ba4-abed-fc2a2efe9fff_ruel 4th wall manila 5 kz tandingan.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Ruel and KZ Tandingan"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Ruel and KZ Tandingan</span></span></span></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/e2e64444-21d5-4202-84f5-1b92dd59f084_ruel kz tandingan.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Superstar selfie! Ruel shares his photo with KZ via his Instagram account after the show."/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Superstar selfie! Ruel shares his photo with KZ via his Instagram account after the show.</span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>Ruel also delighted the fans by singing a snippet of Freestyle’s “<strong>Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang</strong>” before doing a cover of One Direction’s “<strong>Night Changes</strong>.”</p><div><br/></div><p>He ended the show with more hits including “<strong>Painkiller</strong>” from his <em><strong>Free Time</strong></em> EP and “<strong>I DON’T WANNA BE LIKE YOU</strong>” from 4TH WALL.</p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/fb2c7dc0-1e46-499a-9f2c-e5a6bb0ce5a8_ruel 4th wall manila 6.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/></span></span></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/5993de10-ec13-4e69-bef5-06cee77ee21b_ruel 4th wall manila 7 (1).jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>Ruel&#x27;s career began in 2015 after his father Ralph sent a demo of him covering “<strong>Let It Go</strong>” by James Bay to producer Mark Landon a.k.a. M-Phazes.</p><div><br/></div><p>It’s worth noting that he has gained a startling attention from British pop icon <strong>Elton John</strong>. “And something else is brand-new from Australia, a 14 year-old boy, amazing, amazing track ‘<strong>Don’t Tell Me</strong>,’ this is the debut single from Ruel,” says Elton via BBC Radio 1. “This is astonishing that someone so young, and write something so good,” he continued before playing the rising star’s song.</p><div style="text-align:center"><br/></div><div class="youtube-iframe"><iframe width="919px" height="500px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eE48SVjGMUc" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><p>Six years later, <strong>Ruel Vincent van Dijk</strong> is now conquering the world. He has introduced himself through his three extended plays (EP): <em><strong>Ready</strong></em> (2018), <em><strong>Free Time</strong></em> (2019), and <em><strong>Bright Lights, Red Eyes</strong></em> (2020), and has fans sing along to hits such as “Painkiller” and “GROWING UP IS____.” </p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/6dcf4cf5-3809-40b8-b504-412d0b7d8e32_ruel ready ep.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Ruel’s debut release produced the hits “Younger” and “Dazed and Confused.” <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"><em> Photo: RCA Records  </em></span></span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>He won the <strong>Breakthrough Artist Award</strong> at <strong>ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Music Awards</strong> in 2018 at the young age of 16, making him the youngest solo artist to win the prestigious award.</p><div><br/></div><p>He released his first full-length album 4TH WALL this year which he described as very personal and “honestly feels like one of my limbs it’s such a big part of me.” The 4TH WALL World Tour commenced in Australia and Asia with visits in <strong>Manila</strong>, <strong>Cebu</strong>, and <strong>Davao</strong>. He has frequented the country since his debut release. The first time he set foot in the Metro was at Teatrino Greenhills in 2019 to promote <em>Ready.</em></p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/86d28a96-59ef-4363-aec5-265ab1ef8635_ruel-aria.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Ruel breaks records when he won the Breakthrough Artist award at the 2018 ARIA Music Awards. <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none"><em> Photo: Joel Carrett/AAP  </em></span></span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>He has just dropped his brand-new music video for “SITTING IN TRAFFIC” which was entirely shot in Manila complete with Tagalog subtitle. </p><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img loading="lazy" src="https://assets-metrostyle.abs-cbn.com/prod/metrostyle/attachments/9b3f0298-52d5-4e6d-ab7d-9e7295405f68_ruel 4th wall album.jpeg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt=""/></span></span></div><div><br/></div><div style="text-align:center"><iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/17FxTkMIOb6nzuewcCmTJc?utm_source=generator" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe></div><div><br/></div><div class="youtube-iframe"><iframe width="400" height="345" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tMnpz5wTokU" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div><br/></div><div><strong><em>RUEL - 4TH WALL PHILIPPINE TOUR is brought by Wilbros Live. Follow @WilbrosLive for more exciting shows.</em></strong></div><div><br/></div>