Jesse Royal Expands No Place Like Home With Deluxe Edition, New Music and Tours

Jesse Royal is wasting no time cashing in on the momentum from his latest Grammy nomination. Instead of treating the nod for No Place Like Home as a finish line, he is expanding the album with a deluxe edition set for May 15, 2026, and pairing it with a live schedule that already stretches from Texas to Sweden and the United Kingdom.

The expanded release gives the original project new life. Listed as a 13-song edition, it adds fresh material including Ignite and Art of Dub, along with another previously unreleased track and a bonus version of Light of Mine. The package also brings back the kind of heavyweight collaborations that have helped Royal build his profile, with guest appearances from Kabaka Pyramid, Melanie Fiona, Romain Virgo, Yohan Marley and Perfect Giddimani. For an artist coming off a Grammy boost, the strategy is clear: keep the album in motion, keep the catalog active, and give supporters something new without waiting for the next full-length.

That push builds on the impact of No Place Like Home, which arrived on August 29, 2025 through Easy Star Records and went on to land a Best Reggae Album nomination at the 68th GRAMMY Awards. The category drew from 73 valid submissions, and Royal is one of five nominees alongside Vybz Kartel, Lila Iké, Keznamdi and Mortimer. It is his second Grammy nomination, following Royal, his 2021 album that was also nominated for Best Reggae Album at the 64th GRAMMY Awards. The new nomination gives fresh weight to a project Royal has tied to a personal turning point, saying the album was inspired by a near-death car accident.

The live side of the campaign is moving just as quickly. Royal is booked for the Austin Reggae Festival in Texas on April 19, 2026, then for Protoje & The Indiggnation’s The Reggae Invasion Tour across the United States from April 15 to May 24, 2026. After that, his calendar includes Uppsala Reggae Festival in Sweden in June and Reggae Land in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom on August 1, 2026. Taken together, the deluxe edition, the festival circuit and the touring run show an artist using Grammy visibility not as a reward, but as leverage for a bigger global chapter.