{"id":459112,"date":"2026-02-07T05:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459112\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:28:12","slug":"mariah-carey-performs-at-2026-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/459112\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Performs at 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260206_12bfa9a2e2f443fa8651a30be191ed05\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:61fd837a-8fb6-479d-bcaf-1cd30645b6a5\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/12bfa9a2e2f443fa8651a30be191ed05_md.jpg\" alt=\"mariah carey olympics getty\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/mariah-carey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey<\/a> is getting things started at the 2026 Winter Olympics &#8230; but she&#8217;s not doing a bobsled run &#8230; she&#8217;s performing at the opening ceremony over in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The beloved singer just took the stage Friday night at Milan&#8217;s San Siro Stadium, where Olympians from around the globe are being introduced on the first night of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mariah Carey opens the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinterOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WinterOlympics<\/a> with a stunning performance! \u2728 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m2yO74i6Lx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/m2yO74i6Lx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC Olympics &amp; Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCOlympics\/status\/2019857189762928667?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 6, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCOlympics\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@NBCOlympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mariah started off singing in Italian &#8230; paying tribute to one of Italy&#8217;s most beloved songs by belting out &#8220;Volare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She then transitioned into one of her more recent tracks, her 2025 single &#8220;Nothing Is Impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260206_a21778c33ed7420e80cf41a3787fdf45\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:61fd837a-8fb6-479d-bcaf-1cd30645b6a5\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a21778c33ed7420e80cf41a3787fdf45_md.jpg\" alt=\"mariah carey olympics getty 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mariah sang from the middle of the stadium, wearing a bedazzled white dress and a feather white coat that covered much of her body &#8230; save for her cleavage. She was blinged out too, with a bunch of ice on her wrists, neck, ears, and fingers.<\/p>\n<p>Italian singers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/andrea-bocelli\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Bocelli<\/a> and Laura Pausini, plus Italian rapper Ghali, are among the other performers &#8230; with &#8220;The White Lotus&#8221; star Sabrina Impacciatore also set to appear.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA is in the house watching &#8230; and this year we&#8217;ve got our largest Winter Olympics delegation ever &#8230; with 232 athletes across all sports.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo, Mariah!!!<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey is getting things started at the 2026 Winter Olympics &#8230; but she&#8217;s not doing a bobsled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-459112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}