After skipping a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Global Citizen Live Festival made its return bigger than ever, staging events in eight cities, from New York to Los Angeles to Mumbai, on …
After skipping a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Global Citizen Live Festival made its return bigger than ever, staging events in eight cities, from New York to Los Angeles to Mumbai, on Sept. 25.
was introduced by Chris Martin of Coldplay, the festival’s headliner. “We’re going to bring up one of the greatest of the greats, Paul Simon,” Martin announced. After a few minutes, the 79-year-old singer, known for his work in Simon & Garfunkel as well as his stellar solo career, stepped to the microphone and warbled a version of “The Boxer.” Nice guitar interplay ended the 1969 song from Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” album.
Simon’s surprise appearance capped off a day of music and messages, for which GFS is known. With the pandemic still raging, global warming causing havoc across the world and 2020’s summer of anti-racism protests still resonating, commentaries from the stage were particularly pointed and not just focused on Global Citizen’s general aim of ending world poverty by 2030. The organization later announced more than 60 million COVID-19 vaccines, 157 million trees, and $1.
The boyfriend-girlfriend duo of Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello received a lot of stage time, both together and separately. Cabello dazzled in an early set that featured “Havana” and “Senorita,” with Mendes, whose bland set paled in comparison, joining in for a duet of the latter. The two were among the most-talked-about acts on the bill, judging from social media, which was abuzz over the couple kissing onstage.
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