Grammy-winning singer Billie Eilish to headline Glastonbury Festival 2022

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Grammy-winning singer Billie Eilish isn’t any stranger to breaking data and making historical past. The 19-year-old star was introduced as subsequent 12 months’s Glastonbury Festival headliner, making her the youngest solo artist to guide the UK music competition in its 51-year historical past.

“We are very excited to confirm that @billieeilish will headline the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night at Glastonbury 2022, to become the Festival’s youngest ever solo headliner,” the competition introduced on Twitter.

“This will be her first UK festival headline performance,” the tweet additional learn.

As per People journal, she can be the fifth feminine artist to headline the competition, after Suzanne Vega in 1989, Beyonce in 2011, Florence and the Machine in 2015 and Adele in 2016.

Eilish beforehand turned the youngest artist and the primary feminine artist to brush all 4 main classes on the Grammy Awards, taking house greatest new artist, the document of the 12 months, tune of the 12 months and album of the 12 months finally 12 months’s awards present when she was 18 years outdated.

Eilish lately turned the youngest artist ever to write down and carry out a theme tune for the James Bond franchise, along with her observe ‘No Time to Die. She additionally revealed lately she spent the COVID-19 lockdown writing and recording a brand new album.

The ‘Happier Than Ever’ artist additionally develop into the Met Gala’s youngest ever co-chair this 12 months, when Vogue made the announcement in May, explaining that her “willingness to embrace an aesthetic as innovative as her music has pushed emerging brands into the limelight and challenged old rules about how a pop star should dress.”

Eilish launched her sophomore album ‘Happier Than Ever’ in July, for which she kicks off her world tour in February. She will make her cease at Glastonbury Festival on June 24, 2022, throughout the European leg of her tour.

Eilish will carry out on the enduring Pyramid Stage on the Friday evening of the 5-day extravaganza, following within the footsteps of artists together with the Rolling Stone, Jay-Z, Adele and David Bowie.

Glastonbury Festival 2022 would be the first in three years, with each 2020 and 2021’s stay occasions cancelled because of the pandemic.

A digital occasion was tried in June 2021, with artists stay streaming their units from Worthy Farm as an alternative, though it was beset by technical difficulties. Glasto’s organisers had additionally hoped to host a 1-day mini-concert in September however this was known as off in July.

Glastonbury 2022 will run from June 22 to June 26 2022.