Rihanna’s performance this Sunday during the 95th edition of the Oscars This is one of the most anticipated moments of the ceremony. The singer will take the stage to perform lift me upwhich has a Best Original Song nomination for being part of the film’s soundtrack Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
In this way, Rihanna becomes the only artist ever who participated in the two most important shows of the year in the United States: the Super Bowl -where she announced her second pregnancy- and the Oscars.
After the Barbados one was confirmed, all eyes were on Lady Gaga, also nominated for hold my handsoundtrack of Top Gun: Maverick.
However, the singer rejected the Hollywood Academy’s invitation to take the stage at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles this Sunday, March 12.
Through a press release, the director of the Oscars, Glenn Weiss, put an end to the rumors about the presence of Gaga. Although she does not rule out going through the photocall and going to the awards ceremony, what is confirmed is that the artist will not take the stage to perform the nominated song.
His work rate for the shooting of the film Joker: Madness for Two prevented the interpreter from Poker face prepare a show at the height Oscars. It is the alibi of Steffani Germanotta not to be part of the ceremony.
This would have been Lady Gaga’s third Oscar performance. The first time he sang at the ceremony was in 2016, with the theme Until it happens to youfrom the movie Hunting Ground.
The second time we saw the performer on the biggest night in cinema was in 2019, when sang with Bradley Cooper Shallow, the song of A star is born who won the Oscar and who did Gaga brought home her first statuette.