{"id":912353,"date":"2026-09-28T03:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912353\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T03:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:34:13","slug":"george-michael-vmas-tribute-with-raye-sombr-and-teddy-swims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912353\/","title":{"rendered":"George Michael VMAs Tribute With Raye, Sombr and Teddy Swims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sombr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sombr\" data-tag=\"sombr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sombr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/raye\/\" id=\"auto-tag_raye\" data-tag=\"raye\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raye<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/teddy-swims\/\" id=\"auto-tag_teddy-swims\" data-tag=\"teddy-swims\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy Swims<\/a>, Raye, and surprise guest Adam Lambert put on their best leather to celebrate the legacy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/george-michael\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-michael\" data-tag=\"george-michael\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Michael<\/a> with a medley of songs at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mtv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mtv\" data-tag=\"mtv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a> Video Music Awards on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSombr, who was wearing George Michael\u2019s own jacket, took on \u201cFaith\u201d and \u201cFather Figure,\u201d Raye sang \u201cKnew You Were Waiting,\u201d Teddy Swims tackled \u201cCareless Whisper,\u201d and Adam Lambert finished the performance off with \u201cFreedom 90,\u201d joined by young U.K. singers Meek and Saint Harison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe tribute to the singer, who died a decade ago on Christmas, commemorates the upcoming 40th anniversary of his 1987 blockbuster debut solo album, Faith. It also coincides with The Faith Tour, a live album out Nov. 6, and a feature-length film, George Michael: The Faith Tour, which will open in cinemas around the world on Dec. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMichael was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/vmas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_vmas\" data-tag=\"vmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VMAs<\/a> favorite, earning four Moon Persons in his lifetime. He was nominated 16 times and he notably won Best Direction in a Video for co-directing \u201cFather Figure\u201d with Andy Morahan. Madonna, who made her return to perform on the VMAs stage for the first time in 23 years on Sunday, presented him with the Video Vanguard Award back in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIt was Raye\u2019s second performance She was nominated twice this year, including in the Song of the Year category for \u201cWhere Is My Husband!\u201d Sombr\u2019s appearance coincided with three VMA nominations. Swims was not nominated for any 2026 VMAs but will release a new album, Ugly, in January. Adam Blackstone, who put together Dr. Dre\u2019s and Rihanna\u2019s Super Bowl halftime shows, among others, served as music director for the George Michael tribute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Snoop Dogg-hosted VMAs, which also included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/2026-vmas-dolly-parton-tribute-kacey-musgraves-1235630339\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Dolly Parton tribute<\/a>, aired on CBS and MTV. If you missed it, the whole show will also be available to stream on Paramount+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sombr, Raye Teddy Swims, Raye, and surprise guest Adam Lambert put on their best leather to celebrate the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,22519,18471,33184,341,167795,120374,243893,32947,311271],"class_list":["post-912353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-george-michael","tag-mtv","tag-mtv-video-music-awards","tag-music","tag-raye","tag-sombr","tag-teddy-swims","tag-vmas","tag-vmas-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912353","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=912353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}