André 3000 showed up to the 2025 Met Gala in New York City with a piano strapped to his body around the same time he announced his new album, 7 piano sketches.
7 piano sketches was released via Epic Records shortly after André 3000 arrived at the Met Gala in New York City, where he wore the piano number created by Burberry in collaboration with benji bixby. His outfit adhered to the Met Gala’s Superfine: Tailoring Black Style theme, celebrating craftsmanship, structure, Black history and the evolution of dandyism.
The event also marks the debut of benji bixby, an update on André’s late ’00s fashion line, Benjamin Bixby. Partially composed and recorded prior to New Blue Sun, the beginnings of 7 piano sketches came about nearly 10 years ago, while André was staying in a house in Texas with his son that had only a piano, their beds and TV screens. André was compelled to compose more and share them in the spring, a time of year that “promises that life, creativity and possibility are ever-renewing.”