Justin Bieber has joined the star-studded list of half-time performers who will close out the 2026 World Cup in New York.<\/p>\n
The Canadian pop star will perform alongside Madonna, Shakira and K-pop ensemble BTS<\/a> during the tournament\u2019s first-ever Super Bowl-style half-time show on 19 July.<\/p>\n Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel and the PS22 Chorus featuring Coldplay, and the Sesame Street muppets are also set to appear during the 11-minute set, which supports the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund.<\/p>\n \u201cThe FIFA World Cup brings the world together in a way nothing else can,\u201d Bieber said.<\/p>\n In the spring, the Yukon and Peaches singer returned to the stage with a nostalgia-fuelled set at the Coachella festival in California \u2013 his biggest live show in four years after cancelling his Justice world tour following health issues.<\/p>\n The 32-year-old spent much of the April gig sitting in front of a laptop and singing to YouTube music videos of his older hits, such as Baby, Never Say Never, One Time and Beauty and the Beat.<\/p>\n The FIFA half-time show has been curated by Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin and will raise money for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, an initiative working to raise $100m (Ksh. 12.9B) for children worldwide.<\/p>\n Colombian pop star Shakira and Nigerian musician Burna Boy \u2013 who were among the performers who opened the tournament across the three North America host nations \u2013 will also return to the stage together.<\/p>\n Their global hit \u201cDai Dai\u201d has dominated music charts and become a fixture at matches since the tournament launched on 11 June.<\/p>\n The biggest-ever tournament kicked off with 48 teams playing across Mexico, Canada and the US, but the national teams for all three host nations have since been eliminated.<\/p>\n Eight teams remain as the quarter-finals resume on Thursday when France meet Morocco in Boston.<\/p>\n Spain and Belgium face off in Los Angeles on Friday and Norway and England meet in Miami on Saturday. Defending world champion Argentina plays Switzerland in Kansas City on Saturday as well.<\/p>\n Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi leads the tournament\u2019s Golden Boot race with eight goals, and has already made history several times over the weeks.<\/p>\n He is trailed by Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 of France and Norway\u2019s Erling Haaland, who both have seven goals, and England\u2019s Harry Kane, who has six.<\/p>\n The post Justin Bieber joins Madonna, Shakira, BTS for FIFA World Cup final half-time show<\/a> appeared first on KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Justin Bieber has joined the star-studded list of half-time performers who will close out the 2026 World Cup in New York. The Canadian pop star will perform alongside Madonna, Shakira and K-pop ensemble BTS during the tournament\u2019s first-ever Super Bowl-style half-time show on 19 July. Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel and the PS22 Chorus featuring Coldplay, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}