Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival known for vibrant and monumental performances is ready for another year to make history. In 2018, Beyonce headlined the event with a performance that lasted 105 minutes which afterwards, went on to live a life of its own.
This year, the event will be headlined by Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, and American rock band, Rage Against the Machine. African artists, home and away would also grace Coachella with their performances alongside a number of international artists.
Seun Kuti, Koffee, Princess Nokia, Sampa the Great, Aya Nakamura, Masego are included in this year’s lineup amongst other artists like Ari Lennox, Summer Walker, Lil Uzi Vert, FKA Twigs and many others.
Seun Kuti, who performed at Coachella in 2012, will be returning this year with his band, Egypt 80 as the only Nigerian artist, as he was when he performed at the event 8 years ago. He posted about the event on his page.
Koffee will be making her debut performance at the event. Last year, she released an EP called ‘Rapture’ which went on to grab a Grammy nomination. It was also number 1 on the Billboard’s Reggae Album Chart and on iTunes Reggae Chart. Fellow Jamaican artist, Masego, will also be performing at the event.
DJ Black Coffee, who regularly performs major music events was at the last Coachella with his house music vibes and would also be headlining the ULTRA South Africa this year for the first time ever.
French-Malian pop singer Aya Nakamura, will be performing alongside Afro-Nuyorican MC, Princess Nokia who wowed the audience last year with her performance at Coachella. Australian-Zambian rapper, Sampa the Great and British-Nigerian rapper Dave were also listed as part of the event’s lineup this year.
Coachella has announced that tickets from the first weekend of the event have already sold out, even though more details and timing are yet to be released. You can buy tickets and view the complete lineup of artists here .
