Global Citizen 2021: all you need to know
Coldplay, Billie Eilish, Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo, BTS collab and many more lead Central Park portion of 24-hour global event. It represents Global Issues of climate change with a light hearted twist if entertainment and raising awareness.
Coldplay, Billie Eilish, Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo, and many more lead the Central Park portion of the 24-hour global event.
The dynamic of conscious entertainment played out at the New York edition of the 10th annual Global Citizen concert. The combined ‘concert and save-the-world pep talk in Central Park found an array of performers trying, in various ways, to balance the joy of returning to live performance with the thought of a planet slowly going to hell on various fronts.
The six-hour show was headlined by Coldplay, Billie Eilish, and Jennifer Lopez, who were preceded by Lizzo, Camila Cabello, Meek Mill, Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara, Burna Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Jon Batiste, Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang and Bob Marley’s grandson Skip (who opened the event with an all-star sing-along on “One Love” and “Get Up Stand Up”).
Eilish and Finneas joined Coldplay for “Fix You” (with Eilish taking a verse and dancing around during its finale), while Mendes and Cabello partook in an unplugged “Yellow.”
Priyanka Chopra and BTS Appear Back-to-back at Global Citizen Concert, Fans Speculate Band’s India Tour
BTS’s pre-recorded performance from Seoul was broadcast as fans swayed to their hit tracks Butter and Permission to Dance. Interestingly, Priyanka Chopra Jonas appeared right before their act, and fans could not help but wonder if this was a hint regarding BTS’ India tour.
Meanwhile, Priyanka took the Internet by storm when she hosted the Global Citizen Live concert in Paris which will stream 24 hours from different parts of the world like New York, etc. She uploaded a picture with the popular Eiffel Tower in the backdrop and captioned it on Instagram as: “An Evening in Paris”.
BTS’ new collaboration My Universe was performed by Coldplay live in New York. BTS also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a seven-member South Korean boy band that was formed in 2010 and debuted in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment.