It must have been nerve-wracking to be in Tora Woloshin's fishnet stockings Monday night, waiting backstage while hundreds of fans loosely filled the main floor of the Rialto Theatre waiting for your entrance.
But midway into rapper/hip-hop artist B.o.B.'s set he finally brought her on stage to a roaring howl from the crowd, which had hipped and hopped its way through the open set with hardcore rapper Kevin Gates and the first half of B.o.B.'s show with a host of Woloshin's No Genre Label mates. Woloshin, dressed in a mini one-piece and fishnet stockings, sang a duet with B.o.B. — aka Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. — on his song "Lean On Me."
It was a short song that she sang really well, wonderfully matching vocals and pitch with B.o.B. But it was enough of a moment that her hometown fans, the ones who have watched her grow from lead singer of a Tucson garage band to soulful alternative and punk rocker to R&B blaster got an idea of the direction her career was now taking.
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At the end of the show, B.o.B. brought Woloshin back on stage for an encore of "Airplanes.
The tour moves on to California today for a show in Santa Ana and another Thursday in Los Angeles. No Genre tour continues through late November.
