NEW YORK — Justin Bieber will convey his swag to the World Cup’s star-studded, Tremendous Bowl-style halftime present, becoming a member of fellow headliners Madonna, Shakira and BTS, FIFA introduced Wednesday.
Afrobeats star Burna Boy, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the PS22 Refrain — a choir of elementary college college students based mostly in Staten Island, New York — can even carry out, the final joined by Coldplay.
The 11-minute halftime efficiency, curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin, will happen in the course of the closing outdoors New York on July 19. The present will help the FIFA World Citizen Schooling Fund, which is elevating $100 million to assist youngsters entry schooling and soccer.
“The FIFA World Cup brings the world collectively in a means nothing else can,” Bieber mentioned in a press release. “I’m grateful to be a part of this halftime present, and much more grateful realizing it’s already serving to increase entry to schooling for youngsters world wide.”
Of all of the performances, the addition of Burna Boy is especially noteworthy: He’s one half of this 12 months’s official track for the World Cup, “Dai Dai,” led by Shakira. The track is a mesh of their musical landscapes: Afrobeats and Latin rhythms, an undeniably world, multilingual pop monitor. In a single verse, they identify numerous the world’s most well-known soccer gamers and international locations competing on this 12 months’s World Cup: “Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia,” Shakira cheers. “Mexico, Japan, Korea, Netherlands.”
“The FIFA World Cup is without doubt one of the few moments that really brings the whole world collectively,” Burna Boy mentioned in a press release. “To characterize Africa on the first-ever FIFA World Cup closing halftime present is a privilege and a accountability that I don’t take calmly.”
And whereas the Tremendous Bowl is famed for its halftime present, such performances should not commonplace in soccer, with occasions just like the Champions League closing that includes a pre-match live performance.
This 12 months’s World Cup halftime efficiency can even function a few of The Muppets from Sesame Avenue, in addition to Kermit and Miss Piggy.
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