By Sachin Ravikumar Dua Lipa electrifies Glastonbury in glittery Pyramid stage debut GLASTONBURY, England, – Pop star Dua Lipa lit up a cold Glastonbury night on Friday, remodeling its well-known Pyramid stage venue into an open-air nightclub the place 1000’s grooved to hits resembling “Levitating” and “Houdini”. Headlining the enduring music competition in southern England for the primary time, Lipa delivered a glittery, energetic efficiency that includes firework shows, 5 totally different outfits and an ensemble of break dancers and musicians. The 28-year-old British-Albanian singer instructed the group the way it had been a dream for her to sing on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage, the place artists resembling Paul McCartney, Beyoncé and David Bowie have carried out over the competition’s greater than 50-year historical past. “Little me would simply be so beside herself proper now,” she mentioned. “Truthfully I could not imagine it. I really feel so grateful.” Born in London to Kosovo Albanian mother and father, Lipa started overlaying songs by different pop artists as an adolescent and importing them to YouTube, which led to a file deal in 2014 when she was 18. In 2019, she gained two Grammy Awards together with Finest New Artist. The ocean of humanity at Glastonbury erupted into dance throughout hits together with “New Guidelines” and “Love Once more”. “We’re obsessed. Dua was on one other degree,” mentioned Sophie Web page, 30, a fan from London who was within the crowd. “I knew she was going to be good however the vitality she introduced … her emotion actually got here via.” Lipa additionally introduced Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker – a collaborator on her newest album – on stage and the duo carried out “The Much less I Know the Higher” collectively. She joined Coldplay, R&B singer SZA and nation music singer Shania Twain as headliners – a grouping with far more feminine expertise after criticism over final yr’s male-dominated line-up. Earlier on Friday, Seventeen made historical past as the primary Ok-Pop group to look at Glastonbury. This text was generated from an automatic information company feed with out modifications to textual content.