Kyle Alessandro at Monk in Rome, January 27, 2027

On Wednesday, January 27, 2027 at 21:00 Kyle Alessandro, the Norwegian singer-songwriter who represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with Lighter, plays live at Monk, at Via Giuseppe Mirri 35 (00159 Rome), in the Teatro hall of the club between Casal Bertone and Portonaccio. Monk is less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station, served by Metro line B and by the regional trains FL1, FL2 and FL3. By bus you get there with lines 163, 409 and 545 indicated on the club's website. Tickets are bought from the tickets page of the official Monk website, linked to the presale circuit authorized by the organizers, where the prices are also published. Children up to 12, accompanied by an adult with a ticket, get in free under the club's rules.

Kyle Alessandro is 20 and already has a long career behind him: a talent show at age 11, a first album at 11, a pop group, two appearances at Melodi Grand Prix and finally the Eurovision final in Basel, opened by him. The Rome date comes within the tour that carries the name of his third album, Aura, released in 2026. A club hall, a Wednesday in January, an audience that in large part discovered him in front of the television in May 2025: for an artist who lives on voice and stage presence, it is the most honest format in which to be judged.

Kyle Alessandro at Monk: the evening of January 27

The Kyle Alessandro concert at Monk is scheduled for Wednesday, January 27, 2027 at 21:00, in the Teatro hall, with paid admission. The club's official calendar lists it among the winter live concerts, and the Monk tickets page links the date to "The Aura Tour," the run of concerts dedicated to the latest album.

An indoor hall

In January the Monk park rests and the life of the club moves indoors, into the hall that the program calls Teatro, carved out of one of the two farmhouses. It is a club hall, with a standing audience and the stage a few meters away. For a singer who built his fame on his voice, and who on television always appeared inside enormous sets, it is an interesting test: here you hear everything, even what the lights of a Eurovision stage hide.

A Wednesday evening

The weekday has its advantages. If you work downtown you reach Tiburtina by metro without hurry, the district at that hour is quiet and the evening has a more intimate rhythm than a Saturday. The downside is the ride home, because with a start at nine the concert ends late: better to think about it beforehand.

The audience

Kyle Alessandro's audience in Italy is in large part made up of Eurovision fans, which has grown a lot in recent years. In December 2025 the singer was already a guest at Eurofesta, the first Italian music event dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest, at the E-Work Arena in Busto Arsizio. In Rome he comes with a concert all his own.

Aura, the album that gives the tour its name

Aura is Kyle Alessandro's third studio album, released in 2026 after Første kapittel from 2017 and Evig & alltid from 2023. The tour that stops at Monk carries its name.

The 2026 singles

In 2026 the singer released the singles Rosary, Backseat and Halo, after Lighter and Model released in 2025. It is a sequence that tells well the move from talent show artist to international pop performer: English titles, polished production, an increasingly adult image. The setlist of the Rome evening has not been published. It is reasonable to expect these songs to occupy a central part of the concert.

The title of Halo

Among the 2026 singles there is one called Halo, like the Beyoncé song with which Kyle Alessandro, as a child, introduced himself to Norwegian television in 2017. It is not certain that the reference is intentional. For those who know his story, though, it is hard not to notice it.

A sound between two cultures

Kyle Alessandro's style comes from his double Norwegian and Spanish identity: in his songs Latin American sounds, echoes of Nordic folklore and even references to Japanese tradition meet, which he had already explored with the group Umami Tsunami. Live, this blend turns into rhythm and choreography, two elements the Eurovision audience knows well.

Kyle Alessandro: the bio of the Norwegian singer-songwriter

Kyle Alessandro Helgesen Villalobos was born in Levanger, Norway, on March 10, 2006, to a Spanish father and a Norwegian mother. He has been singing, writing songs and releasing records since 2017. In 2025 he won the Melodi Grand Prix and represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel with Lighter.

A family between Madrid, Fuengirola and Trøndelag

His father, Kioto Villalobos Sanchez, is from Madrid and moved as a child to Fuengirola, on the Andalusian coast. His mother, Monica Helgesen, is Norwegian but also grew up in the town near Malaga. The two met there and then settled in Norway, first in Trondheim, then in Beitstad, in the municipality of Steinkjer. At home they speak Spanish. Norwegian is his mother tongue. His English is that of a kid raised on international music.

Idol Jr. and Norske Talenter

His first television appearance dates to 2014, at the Idol Jr. auditions, where he sang Adele's Rolling in the Deep. Fame came in 2017 with the eighth season of Norske Talenter, the Norwegian version of Got Talent, aired on TV 2: Kyle performed with Beyoncé's Halo and then with Sia's Alive, and with the latter he got the golden buzzer, the button that sends a contestant straight through.

The first album at 11

Right after the talent show he sang Luis Fonsi's Despacito and his own song Din sang at Allsang på Grensen, one of the most-watched summer programs on Norwegian television. The singles Din sang and Boomerang followed and, in the same 2017, the debut album Første kapittel, "first chapter." In the following years more singles came out, from Señorita to Mi corazón, and he began working with the producers Ola Klæbo, known as Okey, and Jesper Borgen.

Umami Tsunami

After a pause of about three years, in 2022 Kyle returned with the single Solo and a new project: Umami Tsunami, a trio formed with Kristian "Haux" Haugstøyl and Magnus Winjum, inspired by Asian pop. With them he released Delicious (Oh Wow!) and Geronimo, with which the group took part in Melodi Grand Prix 2023, the national selection for Eurovision. After getting through the semifinal on January 14, in the final on February 4 Umami Tsunami finished ninth and last: a meager result that nonetheless made them known across the country. N.E.B.U.D. followed in 2023 and Loyal in 2024.

Evig & alltid and the solo singles

In 2023 Kyle was a guest of Kate Gulbrandsen on the single Tårer i paradis and released his second album, Evig & alltid. In 2024 he went back to producing solo singles, Rodeo and Pulse, and signed with Hilmer Kommer du?. This is the phase in which his writing moves closer to Latin pop and dance, with the voice always in the foreground.

Lighter and Melodi Grand Prix 2025

In 2025 Kyle returned to Melodi Grand Prix as a solo artist with Lighter, an unreleased song produced together with the Swedish singer Adam Woods. The song comes from a very hard period for the family, his mother's illness at the end of 2023, from which she has recovered. In the final of February 15, 2025 he won both the jury vote and the public vote, and with it the ticket to Basel.

Basel, first on stage

At the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Kyle Alessandro got through the first semifinal in eighth place. In the final on May 17 he was the first artist to perform and finished 18th out of 26 countries, with 89 points. The victory went to the Austrian JJ. Opening a Eurovision final is considered a disadvantage, because the public votes hours later: the result should be read that way too.

After Eurovision

The summer of 2025 was full of stages: the annual VG-Lista chart party in June, after the nomination for the Spellemannprisen, the Norwegian music awards, as song of the year for Lighter. The RIX FM Festival in Sweden, in Luleå, Sundsvall and Karlskrona. The Mado in Madrid and Stockholm Pride. In November the singer was expected at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam for Het Grote Songfestivalfeest, the big party that brings together artists of past editions. In December he was among the guests of Eurofesta in Busto Arsizio. In 2026 Aura arrived.

Kyle Alessandro live: what to expect

Kyle Alessandro's concerts combine voice, dance and a repertoire in three languages, Norwegian, Spanish and English, which reflects his family story.

Voice first

Kyle was discovered as a singer before he was discovered as a songwriter: at 10 and 11 he took on Adele, Beyoncé and Sia on television. If you have seen him only in the three minutes of Lighter, with the choreography and lights of Basel, at Monk you will find a performer who has to hold the hall for an hour or more. The club setting works in his favor: the voice arrives unfiltered.

Three languages in one evening

His discography holds songs in Norwegian, like Din sang and Kommer du?, titles in Spanish like Señorita and Mi corazón, and recent singles in English. It is reasonable to expect a setlist that moves across these languages. The Italian audience, which does not understand Norwegian, will follow him on the rhythm.

Lighter

It is hard to imagine an evening without Lighter, the song that took him to Eurovision and earned him the Spellemannprisen nomination. Anyone who followed the 2025 final knows it is a song built for the crescendo and for the audience chorus: in a hall of this size it is the moment when you find out if the Rome audience came for him or out of curiosity.

Monk, Kyle Alessandro's hall in Casal Bertone

Monk is a cultural club active since 2014 at the end of Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, between Casal Bertone and Portonaccio, less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station. The name is a tribute to Thelonious Sphere Monk, the jazz pianist who made irregularity a rule.

Two farmhouses and a park

The club occupies two farmhouses, about 500 square meters in all, and two outdoor areas inside a one-hectare park. The official website describes it as a small rural world in a densely populated district: you arrive between buildings and train tracks, you enter a garden. In winter the garden is just a passage, and the heart of the evening is the Teatro hall.

An open program

Large and small concerts, theater, workshops, presentations, festivals, markets and activities for families, with a bar and kitchen. In autumn and winter 2026 the Monk program has lined up Italian rock names like Marlene Kuntz and Modena City Ramblers, jazz and international singer-songwriters. The venue page is Monk.

No barriers

The club declares spaces free of architectural barriers, open to all ages. For those who use a wheelchair or have difficulty moving it is a concrete fact, and among Rome's concert halls it is not a given.

Casal Bertone and the surroundings of Monk

Casal Bertone is a district in the eastern part of Rome, enclosed between the Tiburtina railway, Via Prenestina and Portonaccio, grown up next to the rail yard.

A periphery made of tracks

The railway shapes the whole area. Monk presents itself as born between Casal Bertone and Portonaccio, in an area that has changed a lot with the new Tiburtina station. Clubs like this one have brought here an audience that used to cross the district only by train, and have made it an evening destination.

The Verano and San Lorenzo

Beyond the tracks, to the west, are the Verano Cemetery and the basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le Mura. The San Lorenzo district, student and nocturnal, is a few minutes away by taxi: it is the natural destination for a drink after the concert.

Villa Torlonia, Porta Maggiore, Santa Croce

To the north, along Via Nomentana, is Villa Torlonia, with the Casino Nobile and the Casina delle Civette. To the south, beyond Via Prenestina, Porta Maggiore reminds you that even this periphery rests on ancient aqueducts. A little further on is the basilica of Holy Cross in Jerusalem, along the Aurelian Walls.

How to get to Monk for Kyle Alessandro

Monk can be reached by Metro line B or by the regional trains FL1, FL2 and FL3 to Tiburtina, less than a kilometer away, or by buses 163, 409 and 545 indicated on the club's website.

Metro and train

From Termini, Metro line B reaches Tiburtina in a few minutes. From the station to Via Giuseppe Mirri it is about a 10-minute walk. On the way there are no problems. On the way back it is best to check the time of the last weekday metro, because a concert that starts at nine ends late.

By bus

Lines 163, 409 and 545 serve the area. In the evening the frequencies thin out: for the exact route and for the ride back, the planner of Rome's transit company, set to the day and time of the concert, avoids waiting in the January cold.

By car and taxi

Casal Bertone is outside the limited traffic zone, and on a Wednesday evening parking on the nearby streets is generally possible, with a little patience. For the return, a taxi to Via Mirri or from Tiburtina remains the simplest solution for those who live far from line B.

For those coming from outside Rome

Tiburtina is also a high-speed rail station, and the audience for Eurovision-related concerts often comes from other cities. With the concert ending around 11, however, there are few or no useful trains to leave the same night: better to plan for a night in Rome.

Tickets for Kyle Alessandro at Monk

Tickets for the Kyle Alessandro concert at Monk are bought from the tickets page of the club's official website, linked to the authorized presale circuit. Prices and availability are published there.

Buy in time

The Teatro hall at Monk has a limited capacity, and the Eurovision audience is organized, informed, used to moving in groups and buying early. If you are sure you are going, do not wait for the week of the concert.

Information

For questions about access, accessibility and services, Monk gives the address info@monkroma.it. It is also the right channel to ask if vibrating vests for deaf people are planned for this date.

How to plan the evening with Kyle Alessandro

The Kyle Alessandro concert at Monk starts at 21:00. Arriving around 20:15 gives you time to get in, eat something at the club and find a spot in the hall.

Before the concert

On Wednesday it is a workday for almost everyone. The most practical solution is to leave the office, take Metro line B and have dinner directly at Monk. Those with a free afternoon can take a walk at Villa Torlonia or the Verano, remembering that in January darkness falls before 17:30.

After the concert

Around 23:00 the evening is over. San Lorenzo is the nearest area for a last drink. For those going home by public transit, it is better to go straight to Tiburtina.

Listening before you go

The assignment is simple: Aura from start to finish, then Lighter. If you want to understand where he comes from, add a video of the Melodi Grand Prix 2025 final and one of his first appearances on Norske Talenter, when he sang Sia's Alive: the distance between the kid of 2017 and the artist of today is the most interesting story of the evening.

Where to eat at Monk and nearby

Monk has its own kitchen with food trucks: having dinner at the club before the concert is the most convenient solution.

The club's kitchen

The menu published on the website includes hamburgers, supplì, falafel and parmigiana, with vegan and gluten-free options. If you have allergies, tell the staff when you order.

Nearby

Between Casal Bertone and Portonaccio there are neighborhood trattorias and pizzerias, frequented mostly by residents. The wider offer is in San Lorenzo and Pigneto, both a few minutes away: late at night that is where you find kitchens still open.

Accessibility, teenagers and practical information

Monk declares spaces free of architectural barriers and publishes an accessibility page with the rules for children, minors and deaf people.

With teenagers

Kyle Alessandro has a young audience, and many teenagers will want to be there. Children up to 12 get in free if accompanied by an adult with a ticket, one per adult. Minors take part only if accompanied by a parent or an adult relative with a signed authorization: if you plan to send a child with friends, take this into account before buying the ticket.

Vibrating vests

For some designated concerts Monk provides Woojer Vest 3 vests, which let deaf people feel the music through vibrations. For this date it is best to ask in advance.

Earplugs and headphones

In a club hall the volume is high. Concert earplugs for adults and noise-canceling headphones for the youngest take nothing away from the evening and help you enjoy it without ringing the next day.

January in Rome: the club season

In late January Rome is in the middle of the indoor concert season, with tourists thinned out and the city in one of its quietest weeks.

The weather

The evenings of late January are cold, often damp. A real coat and comfortable shoes are the right outfit: the walk between Tiburtina and Via Mirri is short, but at night you feel it.

A slower city

After the holidays, late January is one of the best periods for those coming from out of town: less crowded museums, lower hotel prices, restaurants you can book without effort. If you come to Rome for the concert you can spend the day sightseeing and the evening at Monk without feeling crushed by crowds.

A curiosity about Kyle Alessandro at Monk in Rome, January 27, 2027

The first song that made Kyle Alessandro known to the wider Norwegian public, in 2017, was Beyoncé's Halo, sung at Norske Talenter when he was 10. Nine years later, among the singles released in 2026 around the album Aura, there is one titled precisely Halo. Coincidence or citation, the circle closes in a curious way, and those who go to Monk should keep it in mind if that title comes up in the setlist.

Then there is the story of the group with which he took part in his first Melodi Grand Prix. Umami Tsunami took inspiration from Asian pop, to the point of taking their name from the fifth taste of Japanese cuisine. They finished last in the 2023 final. Two years later the same singer won the same selection, alone, with jury and public in agreement.

Finally a detail about language. Kyle Alessandro is passionate about languages: besides Norwegian and the Spanish spoken at home he knows English, a bit of French and a few words of Ukrainian, and has the habit of asking foreigners for expressions and set phrases. It would not be surprising to hear him greet the Monk audience with a few words of Italian learned for the occasion.

One thing nobody tells you about Kyle Alessandro at Monk in Rome, January 27, 2027

People talk a lot about Lighter's 18th place in Basel, and little about the position it started from. In the final of May 17, 2025 Kyle Alessandro was the first to perform, out of 26 countries. Anyone who follows Eurovision knows that opening the show is a serious disadvantage: the televote opens hours later, and the public's memory rewards those who come in the second half. In the semifinal, instead, he had placed eighth, a result much more representative of how much people liked it.

Second thing little said: the singer you will see at Monk has almost 10 years of work behind him. The first album, Første kapittel, is from 2017. The second, Evig & alltid, from 2023. Aura from 2026. In between there are a group, dozens of singles, collaborations with Norwegian and Swedish producers. He is not a figure born with Eurovision.

Third, practical: the Rome date falls on a Wednesday, when the club does not have the weekend crowd. It is the day when a club hall works best, with cleaner sound and an audience that came on purpose. If you can choose among several cities of the tour, here you find the best conditions to really listen to him.

The advice I give you for visiting Kyle Alessandro at Monk in Rome, January 27, 2027

My advice is to arrive knowing at least four songs: Lighter, Rodeo, and two tracks from Aura. The Eurovision audience sings, dances, knows the choruses by heart. If you arrive without reference points you risk living the evening as an outside spectator, and a pop concert in a club is lived from the inside.

Second piece of advice: pick your spot in the hall well. At club concerts a distinction holds: the first rows for those who want to live the concert with their body, the center of the hall for those who want balanced sound, the back near the bar for those who prefer to move around. For an artist who dances and uses the stage, the slightly raised center lets you see everything.

Third, the ride back. On a Wednesday evening in January, with the end around 23:00, the risk is being left on foot in the cold. Decide beforehand if you will go home by metro, taxi or car. For evenings organized for groups and companies, Tour Leader Pro builds tailor-made programs, from the concert to dinner to the ride back.

Another well-known fact, yet rarely mentioned

People know that Kyle Alessandro represented Norway. Fewer remember how Spanish his story is. His father was born in Madrid and grew up in Fuengirola. His mother, who is Norwegian, grew up in the same Andalusian town, where the two met. At home they speak Spanish, and among his singles there are titles like Señorita, Mi corazón and Dinero.

This double belonging has also marked his Eurovision career. In spring 2025, before Basel, Kyle took part in the Eurovision Spain Pre-Party, the artist presentation party organized in Spain. In the summer he sang at Mado, the Madrid Pride, on the stage in Plaza de España. For the Spanish public he is almost a homegrown artist.

His music bears the signs: Latin American rhythms inside a Nordic pop production, with the voice moving from Norwegian to Spanish to English. It is the reason why the audience of Southern Europe, Italians included, adopted him early: he sounds familiar, even though he comes from Trøndelag.

The right photo to take at Kyle Alessandro at Monk in Rome, January 27, 2027

In a hall like the Monk Teatro the lights are low and change often. The right photo is not the one with flash from the front row, which ruins the view for others and flattens everything. It is the one taken from the center of the hall, during a chorus, when the lights come on together over the stage and over the audience with arms raised.

The moment to wait for is Lighter. The title is about a lighter, and the gesture of the raised lighter, today replaced by phone flashlights, is part of the ritual of the song: the hall lit by dozens of small lights, with the singer in the middle, is the image that tells the evening better than any close-up.

Outside, the photo to take is the Monk park at night, with the farmhouses lit up and the evening's billboard: a piece of countryside in the middle of the Tiburtina tracks. Then the phone back in your pocket: a concert is better remembered by watching it than by filming all of it, and the person behind you will be grateful.

Some important events that took place here in history

The history of Monk as a cultural space begins in 2014, when the two farmhouses at the end of Via Giuseppe Mirri and the park around them opened to the city with concerts, theater, workshops, presentations and activities for families. From the start the club chose openness to all ages and the absence of architectural barriers, two choices that still define its character today.

Over the years the program has grown to include historic bands of international and Italian rock, jazz, singer-songwriters, electronic music and theater. In summer life is in the park, in autumn and winter in the Teatro hall. More recently Monk introduced Woojer Vest 3 vibrating vests for deaf people, a choice few Rome clubs have made.

The district around is a periphery born with the railway. Casal Bertone and Portonaccio grow up against the rail yard and Tiburtina station, today one of the main high-speed rail hubs in Italy. Not far away, beyond the tracks, the Verano and San Lorenzo bear the marks of the bombing of July 19, 1943, the first to hit Rome, and of postwar reconstruction. It is against this backdrop of tracks and recent history that a club with a one-hectare park found its place.

Who has played at Kyle Alessandro at Monk in Rome, January 27, 2027

Very different names pass through the Monk Teatro hall every season, and the program around Kyle Alessandro's date gives an idea. In autumn 2026 the club hosted Marlene Kuntz with Il vile suonato played in full, the Lemonheads, the Fleshtones, Fink, Azymüth, JMSN, the drummer Mark Guiliana. In December come the Desire, Modena City Ramblers and the Downtown Boys. Italian rock, American indie, Brazilian jazz, soul: Monk has no genre, it has a curious audience.

Then there are the many names that have passed through Kyle Alessandro's story. Adam Woods, the Swedish singer with whom he produced Lighter. Ola Klæbo, known as Okey, and Jesper Borgen, the producers who accompanied him after the first album. Kristian Haugstøyl and Magnus Winjum, his bandmates in Umami Tsunami. Kate Gulbrandsen, who wanted him on Tårer i paradis, and Hilmer, with whom he signed Kommer du?.

And there are the stages: Melodi Grand Prix, the St. Jakobshalle in Basel with the Eurovision final won by the Austrian JJ, the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, Plaza de España in Madrid, the E-Work Arena in Busto Arsizio. After those arenas and those squares, on the evening of January 27 the singer passes through a club hall in Casal Bertone: the distance between the two worlds is the most convincing reason to go.

Frequently asked questions about Kyle Alessandro at Monk

When does Kyle Alessandro play in Rome?

Kyle Alessandro plays in Rome on Wednesday, January 27, 2027 at 21:00 at Monk, at Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, in the Teatro hall. The date is part of the tour tied to his third album, Aura, released in 2026, and is the chance to hear live the singer who represented Norway at Eurovision 2025.

Where is Monk?

Monk is at Via Giuseppe Mirri 35, 00159 Rome, between Casal Bertone and Portonaccio, less than a kilometer from Tiburtina station. You get there by Metro line B or by trains FL1, FL2 and FL3 to Tiburtina, or by buses 163, 409 and 545.

How do I buy tickets for Kyle Alessandro at Monk?

Tickets for Kyle Alessandro at Monk are bought from the tickets page of the club's official website, linked to the authorized presale circuit, where prices and availability are published. The Teatro hall has a limited capacity: it is best to move early.

Who is Kyle Alessandro?

Kyle Alessandro is a Norwegian singer-songwriter of Spanish origin, born in Levanger on March 10, 2006. Known since 2017 thanks to Norske Talenter, he won Melodi Grand Prix 2025 with Lighter and represented Norway at Eurovision in Basel, finishing 18th in the final.

Will Kyle Alessandro sing Lighter at Monk?

The setlist of Kyle Alessandro's concert at Monk has not been published. Lighter is the song that took him to Eurovision 2025 and earned him the Spellemannprisen nomination as song of the year: it is hard to imagine a concert of the tour without that song.

What time does Kyle Alessandro's concert at Monk end?

Monk gives the start for Kyle Alessandro at 21:00 and does not publish the end time. For a club concert the finish is generally around 23:00: plan the ride home taking into account the last services from Tiburtina on a weekday.

Can I go to Kyle Alessandro's concert with teenagers?

Monk admits children up to 12 free if accompanied by an adult with a ticket, one per adult. Minors get in only with a parent or an adult relative with a signed authorization. For a young audience like Kyle Alessandro's it is the rule to know before buying.

In closing

Many artists who came out of Eurovision struggle to hold an hour of concert after three perfect minutes on television. Kyle Alessandro has a different story: he has been singing in public since he was 10, has three albums and a group behind him, and chose for Rome a hall where you cannot hide. Listen to Aura in the days before, arrive at Monk a little early, have dinner at the club and stand in the middle of the hall. If at the moment of Lighter the hall lights up, you will have the answer to the only question that matters.

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