Brian McKnight is taking his musical talents overseas with Armed Forces Entertainment (AFE) this November.

The triple-platinum-selling R&B artist will embark on a six-show tour at military bases across the Pacific on November 3. The final performance will occur, appropriately, on Veterans Day. McKnight joins a long list of performers who have answered AFE’s call to boost the morale and well-being of service members and their families stationed overseas. AFE has organized world-class live events and performances since 1951.

The “One More Cry” singer will undoubtedly perform songs from his 20th album Exodus when he takes the AFE stage. 

He explained, in a release, how his relationship with wife Leilani McKnight changed the artistic direction for Exodus, “When I released ‘When I’m Gone,’ I had a different idea of what the record was going to be. That’s when I switched gears and came up with the idea of Exodus. Literally, I was sitting on the bed with my guitar, watching my wife doing her makeup about 10 feet away from where I was sitting. I just look at her and I hear music playing. It may seem cliché, but clichés are clichés because they’re true. The sun shines a little brighter, the air is a little cleaner when she’s in my view … and since I met her it’s been that way.”

He continued, “I’ve never tried to follow a trend necessarily; I always wanted when my music came on that you knew exactly who it was. I think that’s what this is, that I’m doing with Exodus. When you listen to it, the entire journey has to have a beginning and an end. I live my life kind of like average and I really try to do things on my own terms. I think I’ve done that almost since the beginning of my career. And I really want to get into this next chapter of my life, whatever that is in my life. So, I’m really looking forward to that.”

Here’s a taste of what service members and their families will experience when Brian McKnight performs for the AFE.