Senhit confirmed that Boy George will join her on stage. However, Boy George is not currently listed as a performing artist on the official Eurovision website.
I want people to go on a journey. Some people say their inner child is being healed - my music is doing something for people. So when I'm writing the new music, which is nearly finished, I'm picturing things like Coldplay and Massive Attack shows where they have elements of organic human music, real vocals, and no autotune. That's where I'm going.
Since she graduated in the late 1980s, amid the Aids crisis, Opie has made portraits of her community, friends and family, adopting unflinching realism, saturated colours, and dramatic tonal contrasts from the 16th-century portrait painters. Many of Opie's most famous portraits included in her new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery use these devices deliberately, a declaration that these people deserve, as the title of the show underlines, to be seen.
Eurovision is a natural love for me, Goodrem says, pointing to the two greatest influences in her life: Olivia Newton-John and Celine Dion, who have both been on the Eurovision stage. To be chosen, she says, feels like a celebration of a career which has leapt from milestone to milestone and cemented her in Australian pop history.
Identifying as non-binary was a beautiful and important part of my journey toward truly finding myself. Now, I feel completely ready to be open and transparent. I gave you my most true, authentic self on Drag Race. Now it's time to give you my most true, authentic self outside of it.
The former drag performer made history twice during her appearance on Drag Race Thailand season two in 2019. In addition to becoming the first out trans woman to win any season of internationally, she became the first contestant to win six challenges in a single season. To this day, she remains the only contestant on any Drag Race franchise to have achieved this feat.
"I'll Change for You" finds Mitski at her most vulnerable, offering to erase any part of herself that her partner might not want in exchange for their love. She channels these big feelings with a decidedly small arrangement, her backing band providing jazzy flourishes and drummer Bruno Esrubilsky employing a tightly-wound bossa nova groove.
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I don't know what you want to know, says Anne Imhof, three-quarters of the way into our interview. Her cautious smile, between curtains of jet black hair, changes into a sceptical pout. I have just quoted a headline at Imhof, one of Germany's most important contemporary artists, that described her 2025 New York show as a bad Balenciaga ad.
Whether it's fueling our time on the treadmill, getting us through yet another errand, or helping us dance our cares away on a Friday night, music is a huge part of our lives. And in 2025, we've seen an embarrassment of riches in the music department. To honor that, we're nominating musicians in three star-studded categories: Breakout Musical Artist, Anthem, and Music Video.
The clip begins with the Aussie icon and staunch LGBTQ+ ally being driven through the Italian countryside in a motorcycle sidecar, her hair flowing in the wind, with the driver decked out in black leathers. She is dropped off outside the Masseria and the motorcyclist removes their helmet to reveal themselves as Marlowe. "Ta-ra, love!" Marlowe tells Minogue. "Ciao, Bella," Minogue replies, with a wave of her hand.
Cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond is this year's Joe's Pub Vanguard artist, and as part of their curated residency, "drag terrorist" CHRISTEENE played four sold out shows at the venue. Tuesday (1/27) was the final night, and CHRISTEENE covered songs by Lana Del Rey, Sinead O'Connor, Patti Smith, R.E.M., Tori Amos, Tina Turner, and more in addition to playing originals, backed by a band that included Mary Feaster on bass, Lyla Vander on drums, Cole Stone Frisina on sax, Joanie Drago on guitar, James Jackson on guitar and banjo, Cornelius Loy on theremin, and Adam Rineer on piano.
I have my own moral code, my own moral imperative, that I have to answer to at the end of the day, as a wife and mother, and I believe in my ability and responsibility to do this, and that's why I'm here,
It was a perfect representation of Drag Race at its best: clearly developed storytelling, production decisions that forced girls to navigate new twists without seeming out-of-bounds, and a couple of performances (including a lip sync) that absolutely knocked my socks off. What more could you ask from this show? The most exciting part is that, for the first time this season, the production side has shown some life.
Madonna, Confessions Tour 2006 at Wembley Arena in London. It was the first concert I had ever went to on my own, as the tickets even back then were so expensive and none of my friends wanted to go. Before it started I went to a shoddy, back street pub nearby and had three pints of beer to build up some Dutch courage.
"We're getting ready to film soon," Carrera said. "So, you might see some more of me out there! It's all happening. I don't want to say too much, but we'll see what happens. It would be nice," she added.
Tributes have poured in for RuPaul's Drag Race UK star The Vivienne, one year on from her death. On Saturday (3 January), monuments across Liverpool and the north west were lit up green to honour the drag star, whose real name was James Lee Williams, in reference to her role as the Wicked Witch of the West in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End and UK tour production of the Wizard of Oz.
The gays' favorite season - awards - continued last night as the biggest names in music gathered at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. It was a big evening for politics, pop girls, and performances as The Recording Academy honored the best tunes of the past year, presided over by Trevor Noah, who hosted the grand event for the sixth and final time.
