{"id":388033,"date":"2026-10-30T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/388033\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:20:11","slug":"sombr-surprises-nyc-subway-riders-with-pop-up-performance-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/388033\/","title":{"rendered":"Sombr surprises NYC subway riders with pop-up performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kate<\/p>\n

Singer-songwriter Sombr performed his pop hit “My Body Isn’t Ready” during a pop-up performance at a New York City subway station on Thursday.<\/p>\n

See a clip of the performance in the video above.<\/p>\n

The “Back to Friends” singer and New York native told the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ahead of his impromptu performance, which also included a keyboard player and a group of harmonizing backup singers, that he grew up riding the subway.<\/p>\n

“The MTA is my childhood. It was how I got around,” he said.<\/p>\n

The performance took place at the 14th Street-Union Square station, the MTA said.<\/p>\n

“When I was in high school, I took four trains to school every day,” he added.<\/p>\n

After his performance, he had a simple message: “Keep taking the subway,” he said, giving a smile and a thumbs-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter Sombr performed his pop hit “My Body Isn’t Ready” during a pop-up performance at a New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[141053,136163,141057,141061,141060,36868,141062,24297,2533,141,141055,9,24,55,54,141056,56,849,141054,41159,141059,141058,1657,141063,141064],"class_list":["post-388033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-14-street-union-square","tag-back-to-friends","tag-backup-singers","tag-four-trains","tag-high-school-commute","tag-impromptu-performance","tag-keep-taking-the-subway","tag-kmnd","tag-metropolitan-transportation-authority","tag-mta","tag-my-body-isnt-ready","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-native","tag-ny","tag-nyc-subway","tag-pop-up-performance","tag-sombr","tag-subway-performance","tag-subway-riders","tag-subway-station","tag-subway-video","tag-union-square-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}