{"id":580943,"date":"2026-04-13T04:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:01:09","slug":"israeli-artist-noga-erez-gets-emotional-during-coachella-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580943\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Artist Noga Erez Gets Emotional During Coachella Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIsraeli artist Noga Erez took a moment during her weekend one Coachella<\/a> performance to express her gratitude for her fans amid Israel<\/a>\u2018s ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\n\tErez delivered a 45-minute set<\/a> on the\u00a0California festival\u2019s Gobi Stage on Saturday to quite a sizeable crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt one point, she stopped to address what\u2019s happening back home. \u201cI just want to say one thing: you don\u2019t get to play a stage like this every day,\u201d she said in an emotional speech. \u201cI come from a very, very, very complex part of this planet, and to get us all here doing this was kind of like forces that I didn\u2019t know that I had.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so, so grateful to be here,\u201d she continued as her fans cheered. \u201cAnd at the same time, I\u2019m just heartbroken and sad because of things that are happening at home and around it. I just love this music<\/a> thing so much, and right now, doing this thing is exactly what I\u2019m doing it for, [which] is to put a bunch of strangers together and make them feel like a family united around something. Thank you so much for giving me this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tErez\u2019s emotions were likely heightened during her performance at the major California music festival<\/a> because one of the major attacks during the Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel happened during the Nova music festival, where hundreds were killed by Hamas militants.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince that day, Israel has been involved in an ongoing, multi-front war that has expanded to a broader crisis in the Middle East. In addition to Gaza, Israel\u2019s military confrontations with Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, the West Bank and Iran have also intensified, the latter of which has also been engaged in a\u00a0military conflict with the U.S. in recent months.<\/p>\n

\n\tErez\u2019s Coachella performance also came a month before the Eurovision\u00a0Song Contest, which has been met with controversy over Israel\u2019s participation in the global music competition. Some countries and participants\u00a0have objected to Israel\u2019s taking part<\/a>\u00a0in the contest due to the devastating war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\n\tEurovision has implemented new rules<\/a> around its voting system after Israeli entrant Yuval Raphael<\/a>\u00a0placing second at the final last year caused an uproar and accusations of vote manipulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli artist Noga Erez took a moment during her weekend one Coachella performance to express her gratitude for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,27714,88,803,216,28530],"class_list":["post-580943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-coachella","tag-entertainment","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-music-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}