{"id":307805,"date":"2026-05-09T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307805\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:36:10","slug":"katy-perry-to-perform-at-sofi-stadium-in-california-before-first-world-cup-game-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307805\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Perry to perform at SoFi Stadium in California before first World Cup game in US"},"content":{"rendered":"

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Katy Perry<\/a> will perform at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on June 12 before the first World Cup<\/a> game in the United States, as FIFA<\/a> announced entertainment Friday night before the initial matches in all three nations that will host games in the expanded 48-nation tournament.<\/p>\n

Rappers Future<\/a>, Lisa and Tyla, singer Anitta, singer\/rapper Rema and DJ Sanjoy will be part of the ceremony before the US plays Paraguay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Katy Perry performs as part of the \u201cLifetimes Tour\u201d on July 15, 2025, at Kia Forum in Inglewood, California. Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

Katy Perry performs on stage during iHeartRadio Z100\u2019s Jingle Ball 2024 Presented By Capital One at Madison Square Garden on Dec.13, 2024, in New York City. Kevin MazurGetty Images for iHeartRadio<\/p>\n

SoFi Stadium is pictured as Los Angeles prepares for the 2026 FIFA World Cup co-hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico, in Inglewood, California, on May 7, 2026.\u00a0 REUTERS<\/p>\n

Entertainment before the tournament opener between Mexico and South Africa at Mexico City\u2019s Azteca Stadium on June 11 will include Tyla<\/a>, along with singers Alejandro Fern\u00e1ndez, Danny Ocean, Lila Downs, Belinda and J Balvin, and the groups Los \u00c1ngeles Azules and Man\u00e1.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s opener against Bosnia and Herzegovina at Toronto\u2019s BMO Field will have entertainment by singers Alanis Morissette, Michael Bubl\u00e9, Alessia Cara, Jessie Reyez, Nora Fatehi, William Prince, Elyanna and Vegedream, along with DJ Sanjoy.<\/p>\n

Ceremonies are scheduled to start 90 minutes before kickoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Katy Perry will perform at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on June 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,967,129384,5393],"class_list":["post-307805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-entertainment","tag-katy-perry","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}