Pink stunned the Democratic Nationwide Conference on Thursday, Aug. 22, by bringing daughter Willow Sage Hart on stage for a stripped-down efficiency of her 2017 hit “What About Us.”
On Thursday, Aug. 22, the “Elevate Your Glass” singer took the stage on the DNC alongside her daughter, delivering a peaceable duet earlier than Vice President Kamala Harris delivers her history-making speech.
Pink shares Willow together with her husband Carey Hart. She has carried out onstage together with her mom earlier than and joined Pink to document “A Million Desires (Reprise)” for The Best Showman: Reimagined when she was 7. Pink and Hart, 49, are additionally mother and father to son Jameson, 7.
Pink — who marked her first-ever efficiency on the DNC — adopted quickly after The Chicks carried out “The Star-Spangled Banner” on Thursday evening.
Whereas this was her first efficiency on the conference, Pink, 44, has lengthy been vocal about her political beliefs.
In November, the pop star teamed up with the non-profit PEN America to provide away 1000’s of banned books at her live shows in Florida. The books she selected to provide away embrace themes of racial and sexual identification.
Her resolution to provide away the books got here after the state applied legal guidelines limiting free speech in schooling in recent times, such because the Particular person Freedom Act, which was handed in July 2022 and limits how systemic racism and discrimination is taught in faculties and the office, per the ACLU. In 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis additionally signed the “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice into laws to restrict dialogue of LGBTQ+ matters in faculties.
Then, when Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Courtroom in 2022, she took to X (previously Twitter) to categorical her frustrations and optimism for a greater future: “I feel all of our nerves are collectively fried from so a few years of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and so forth. +pandemics, mass shootings, wars and the overall lunacy, hypocrisy, ignorance of the GOP-it’s all a bit a lot.”
She added: “However we’ll stick collectively. Good will prevail over evil.”
On Wednesday evening, Stevie Marvel, Sheila E., John Legend and Maren Morris carried out on the conference.
Legend, Marvel and Sheila carried out an lively rendition of Prince and the Revolution’s 1984 basic “Let’s Go Loopy” from Purple Rain, per footage from KSDK Information.
In the meantime, Morris paid tribute to Harris by performing her 2020 protest track, “Higher Than We Discovered It.”
Whereas the observe was initially launched within the wake of George Floyd’s homicide to precise her help for the Black Lives Matter motion, Morris seemingly switched it as much as present the dichotomy between modern-day Democratic and Republican platforms.
“When traces of tomorrow are drawn / Can I dwell with the facet that I selected to be on? / Will we sit on our palms, do nothing about it? / Or will we depart this world higher than we discovered it?” she sang. “America, America, divided we fall / America, America, God save us all / From ourselves and the Hell that we have constructed for our children / America, America, we’re higher than this.”