{"id":670370,"date":"2026-05-14T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670370\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:35:09","slug":"justin-trudeaus-son-xavier-delivers-halftime-performance-at-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670370\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau\u2019s son Xavier delivers halftime performance at basketball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/justin-trudeau\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Justin Trudeau;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Justin Trudeau&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Justin Trudeau<\/a>\u2019s son, Xavier Trudeau, delivered the halftime performance during the home opener between the Ottawa BlackJacks and the Calgary Surge in the Canadian Elite Basketball League on 12 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe vibes were immaculate,\u201d the CEBL wrote in the post along with the montage of the 18-year-old performing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ahead of the game, Justin teased his son\u2019s performance, promoting his halftime show, saying he was a \u201cproud dad at soundcheck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 18-year-old launched his music career under the name Xav and released his debut single, \u201cTil The Nights Done,\u201d in February 2025. He then released two other songs last year, \u201cEverything I Know\u201d and \u201cBack Me Up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau\u2019s son, Xavier Trudeau, delivered the halftime performance during the home opener between the Ottawa BlackJacks and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[72913,64,63,726,67098,323601,34985,323602,6342,85,289770],"class_list":["post-670370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-ahead-of-the-game","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-calgary-surge","tag-canadian-elite-basketball-league","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-ottawa-blackjacks","tag-performance","tag-sports","tag-xavier-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}