{"id":526746,"date":"2026-04-12T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:17:07","slug":"justin-bieber-headlines-coachella-with-nostalgia-fuelled-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526746\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber headlines Coachella with nostalgia-fuelled set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bieber cancelled his world tour after revealing he was suffering from facial paralysis, after being diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome &#8211; a complication from contracting shingles &#8211; in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He released his surprise album Swag in July 2025, and in February performed live at the Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His Coachella set marked a starker departure from the previous night&#8217;s headline act, Sabrina Carpenter, whose Hollywood-themed gig included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpwjnvrpn8eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">costume changes, choreography and elaborate stage design.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colombian pop star Karol G will be Sunday&#8217;s headliner at the festival, which takes place over two weekends in the California desert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It draws more than 100,000 people daily, according to police from the city of Indio, and has been running at Indio&#8217;s Empire Polo Club since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bieber cancelled his world tour after revealing he was suffering from facial paralysis, after being diagnosed with Ramsay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-526746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}