Snoop Dogg

A pioneer of West Coast rap and one of the world’s most recognized pop culture icons, Snoop Dogg brings his 16-time Grammy-nominated, more than three-decade-long catalogue to Ravinia for the first time, hot on the heels of releasing his 22nd album and its companion short film, Ten Til Midnight, in April. Since scoring back-to-back-to-back Billboard number-one, multi-platinum albums, Snoop has become a prolific, unparalleled force across the entertainment industry as a rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, DJ, and media personality, as well as a businessman across technology, entertainment, food and beverage, and lifestyle brands. Most recently, Snoop brought his global influence to the 2024 Summer Olympics and 2026 Winter Olympics, serving as a correspondent, cultural ambassador, and Team USA’s first-ever honorary coach.

Having established his name and style through collaborations with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg immediately broke out in 1993 with the top-10 singles “What’s My Name?” and “Gin and Juice” on his debut album Doggystyle and has continued to score hits across the 2000s, from “Beautiful” and the chart-topping “Drop It Like It’s Hot” (both featuring Pharrell) to “Young, Wild & Free” (with Wiz Khalifa and Bruno Mars) and “Bad Decisions” (with Benny Blanco and BTS). In 2022, he won an Emmy Award for his part in the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show with Dr. Dre (who discovered Snoop in 1992), Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, and 50 Cent.

Chicago’s own Neal Francis returns to Ravinia not with his band but behind a turntable deck, spinning funk and dance records to start up the night. On his latest studio LP, 2025’s Return to Zero—steeped in analog grooves after a grueling tour schedule of 400 shows from 2021 to 2024—Francis leads off with inspiration from a Queen! DJ set by Derrick Carter, the Chicago house legend who created a 12-inch remix of “BNYLV” from Francis’s In Plain Sight. In late June, during the World Cup, Francis joined the Chicago Fire at Recess in the West Loop to perform a pop-up DJ set.