# Why Canceling My Tour Relaunched and Revived My Career As an Independent Artist, by JP Saxe (Guest Column)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/why-canceling-my-tour-relaunched-and-revived-my-career-as-an-independent-artist-by-jp-saxe-guest-column/
- Published: 2026-07-28T16:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-28T16:20:47+00:00
- Original publisher: Variety
- Original article: https://variety.com/2026/music/news/jp-saxe-why-canceling-tour-revived-career-guest-column-1236822288/
- Topics: Americas, Art, Culture, Entertainment, Music, Trending, Weird & Viral, World

## Key points

- JP Saxe reflects on how cancelling his tour ultimately revived his career
- He's gone independent after six years with Arista Records
- New album "Okay Piano Guy" arrives 23 October

## Summary

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter JP Saxe has written a follow-up guest column for Variety reflecting on how cancelling his headlining tour a year ago, after poor ticket sales, ended up reshaping and reviving his career. Rather than treating the setback as a failure to recover from, Saxe describes it as a turning point that pushed him away from a self-imposed expectation of ever-escalating success and towards a more independent, self-defined approach to his work as a musician.

In the year since the cancellation, Saxe has performed with the Jonas Brothers, contributed songwriting to Nick Jonas's 2026 album "Sunday Best", and served as direct support on Megan Moroney's sold-out arena tour. He has also left Arista Records after six years and two albums to become an independent artist, launching this new chapter with the single "When I Lose You" ahead of his forthcoming album "Okay Piano Guy", due for release on 23 October.

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