After Jean-Michel Jarre, MHD, Ibeyi and Small Cookie in 2018, this year nine of our artists will go to the conquest of the north american public. It had already occurred to Coachella in 2016, when all the world was still called Christine and the queens. A shortened name and an international reputation in his pocket, the singer Chris is about three years later to set foot for the second time in his career, the stage of the grand festival. Also to the poster, Jain, a true warrior of pop, who has conquered the United States with her single Come , as well as Charlotte Gainsbourg, whose last album Rest is released in November 2017.
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Side of electro, the French continue to fascinate America. Big favorite, DJ Snake may be in the crowd dancing once again on the leading Taki Taki , in which the clip is already more than 800 million views on YouTube. The duo of Polo & Pan will also be part of the action to defend the genre, as Gesaffelstein, FKJ, CIOzee and Agoria.
They followed Queen B
The rapper, Childish Gambino, first, who, despite his buzz with This is America , was announced a few months ago, never ever want to do the tour. May be a way to focus on his acting career, he continues under his real name, Donald Glover. Singer Ariana Grande then, which justifies its presence as a headliner for a return this year where it appears at the top of his item Finally, the australian group of psychedelic rock Tame Impala, who quickly announced that «new sounds» would be expected in 2019. It did no less to take the place of Beyoncé after his incredible performance last year.
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To accompany them throughout the weekend from 12 to 14 and from 19 to 21 April, many artists in musical genres as diverse as their nationalities. The sides of the americans, Khalid, Janelle Monae and Billie Eilish, a few surprises are hidden in the list of advertised performance. Thus, we can find the actor and british producer Idris Elba on the decks Saturday, but also the interpreter of Jay Clensen in the series 13 Reasons Why , which will perform Sunday with his rock band Wallows. Another new addition to the trio of Perfume, whose career began in 2000, will be the first group of J-Pop (japanese pop) to tread the boards of Coachella. The same for the quartet star BLACKPINK, which will export up to the desert in california, K-pop (pop, south-Korean) for the first time in the history of the festival. Calypso Rose, diva 79-year-old coming from Trinidad and Tobago, will also have the opportunity to shine on the stage of Coachella. «I can’t wait to sing, dance and enjoy this moment with all of you,» she commented on the social networks.
For some time, Coachella accumulates, however, the critical. First, when it was revealed that Phil Anschutz, owner of the festival, she donated substantial sums to the associations of american anti-LGBT and climatosceptiques. Same player shoot again when the sexual harassment is «pervasive» throughout the festival has been denounced by a journalist from Teen Vogue . More recently, the journalist Jonny Coleman, a specialist in music of the Hollywood Reporter , has found the programming 2019, as being a «copied/pasted from previous» and without any sense: «It is like reading a list of inconsistent performers made by five friends who have nothing in common». He concludes that the festival «is no longer the place fun that makes us discover new music» but «just a place where brands are marketing and where the rich kids go to party.»