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Coachella weekend two was full of guest stars, including the Queen of Pop, Madonna, who made a surprise appearance during Sabrina Carpenter’s set on Saturday night. Sabrina took to her Instagram Sunday to reflect on the moment.

“Madonna ..…I’ve got something i wanna talk about!” she wrote. “thank you for coming out, bringing your love, and gracing the audience with everything you are + astrology knowledge + the greatest songs of all time.”

Sabrina was referring Madonna’s seemingly random tangent during the set, when she told the audience that the alignment of the planets with the moon in Taurus indicates we need to “avoid confrontations.”

She tied it all together by noting how music brings people together, then sang acapella, “Can we get together,” from her 2005 track “Get Together.”

Sabrina continued, “Last night was straight out of a dream. spending so much time laughing with you and then above all sharing the stage with you is a privilege I’ll never forget. x”

Sabrina and Madonna sang Madonna’s hits “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer,” as well as a yet-to-be-released song, possibly titled “Bring Your Love,” which may appear on Madonna’s upcoming album Confessions II.

In addition, Sabrina thanked her other special guests: Terry Crews, who appeared on stage for a comic interlude, and Geena Davis along with her Girl Meets World co-star Corey Fogelmanis, who appeared in a prerecorded segment. 

“This show and everyone involved is so beyond special to me,” she concluded. “Sabrinawood forever!”

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Eddie Murphy is celebrating a new addition to his family and a special connection with fellow comedian Martin Lawrence.

The actor and comedian shared that his son, Eric Murphy, and Martin Lawrence’s daughter, Jasmin Lawrence, recently welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Ari Skye.

Speaking to E! News over the weekend at the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award ceremony in Hollywood, Eddie Murphy said the baby arrived within the past couple of weeks.

“They just had a baby girl,” he told the outlet. “They just had her two weeks ago, or a week ago. Yeah, Ari Skye.”

The birth marks a meaningful milestone for both families, as Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence now share a grandchild.

When asked if he had any advice for the new parents, Eddie Murphy kept it candid.

“Oh, you don’t give advice like that,” he said. “You know, your kids don’t go by your advice. Your kids go by the example you set. They watch you.”

Eddie Murphy, who was honored during the ceremony for his decades-long career, also spoke about what matters most to him beyond Hollywood recognition.

“My legacy to me isn’t my work,” the father of 10 said. “My legacy to me is my children. So, that’s my legacy.”

Eric Murphy and Jasmin Lawrence tied the knot in May 2025. They first shared news of their pregnancy in February with a social media post featuring a black-and-white photo of Eric Murphy holding Jasmin Lawrence’s baby bump.

Following the announcement, Martin Lawrence shared his excitement about becoming a grandfather.

“My heart is overflowing with love and gratitude,” he wrote in an Instagram post at the time. “Watching Jasmin and Eric begin this journey into parenthood means everything to me.”

As of now, the couple has not publicly announced their daughter’s birth.

Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence also share a long Hollywood history, having starred together in films including Boomerang and Life.

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Even though he’s only 3, Scotty McCreery’s son Avery McCreery is already a music buff who loves going on the road with his dad. 

“Avery goes through phases,” Scotty explains. “Right now, he is a massive Ronnie Milsap fan. That’s all we listen to in the car, to the point where I never thought I’d get tired of Ronnie, but it’s getting close.”

Scotty’s hit “Bottle Rockets” was inspired by the summers he spent listening to Hootie & the Blowfish growing up and includes a rerecording of the band singing the chorus of their huge hit “Hold My Hand.” 

Just before the collab came together, Avery discovered the band for himself.

“Probably just a month prior,” Scotty recalls, “we got into a Hootie phase with Avery, and ‘Hold My Hand’ was the song. He was like, ‘Can you play this on guitar?’ And I was playing it for him. So when he heard Daddy sing, and then he heard ‘Hold My Hand,’ he was like, ‘That’s the Hootie song!’ So Avery’s a big fan.”

Of course, “Bottle Rockets” did a lot more than just impress his son. Scotty and the band celebrated its chart-topping success Thursday with a #1 party at BMI in Nashville. 

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Nearly a decade after her debut album was released, Kehlani scored the biggest hit of her career with “Folded.” As Billboard‘s Women in Music Impact honoree for 2026, she says the song has “completely rerouted” her life.

“When you’ve experienced a lot of resistance … like, ‘Wow, nothing is working out… No matter which direction I turn, everything feels like pulling teeth. … Getting people to call me back is impossible,” she tells Billboard, noting that things have shifted following the success of “Folded.”

“I’m having these conversations and I’m like, ‘Wait, really? That’s it? You’re down?’ I’m in a period of the least resistance. And it’s a really nice place to be.”

Kehlani believes her current circumstances prepared her for this moment.

“People keep asking me what I think the magic sauce is in ‘Folded,’ and beyond it being a great R&B song, I have a deeper, longer theory that it’s just about where I’m at in my life,” she says. “I don’t think that there was another time that I could have handled the success that I’m currently receiving. … I’m ready now.”

She continues, “Something happens when you turn 30 — everything’s making sense. My motherhood is going incredibly well. My family life, my friends, my whole internal world is finally clicking.”

Kehlani is set to release her self-titled album on April 24, her 31st birthday, and she has high ambitions for the project.

“I want to do this album at Carnegie Hall with an orchestra. I really want some of these songs to make it into movies … and ultimately just have a really historical personal moment for me, and hopefully keep adding to the genre because that’s the coolest thing that ‘Folded’ has done beyond anything,” she says.

Kehlani will be honored at the Billboard Women in Music event on April 29.

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At Teddy Swims’ Coachella show Friday, he brought back a guest from his April 10 appearance: ex-Van Halen singer David Lee Roth.  But that April 10 show — which also featured Joe Jonas and Vanessa Carlton — was truly a full-circle moment for Teddy, says Joe.

On April 10, Joe and Teddy teamed up to perform the Jonas Brothers song “When You Look Me in the Eyes.” Speaking to ABC News, Joe explained that he first met Teddy a few years ago when he saw him perform in London and was “completely floored.”  

“I thought it was one of the best live performances I’ve seen,” Joe added.

Backstage, Joe said Teddy “told me this amazing story: that he loved the song ‘[When You] Look Me in the Eyes’ in high school and him and his high school girlfriend went to … me and the Brothers’ concert back in the day, and he skipped football practice. And his coach found out and made him run a bunch of drills.”

So when Joe realized that he and Teddy would both be at Coachella this year, he offered his services.

“I was like, ‘Hey man, let me know if you need a background singer,’ which turned into hopping up on stage and surprising the crowd,” Joe told ABC News. “So it was overdue. I’ve been to Coachella seven, eight times I’ve never performed so I was thrilled to do it with Teddy.”

But if you want to see Joe sing the song with his brothers, they’ve got some some dates coming up in May and August, with more to come. “We have tour dates that we’ve yet to announce,” he revealed, while teasing “a lot of new music.” 

Joe was speaking to ABC News about his new Target campaign for a limited-edition Pokémon collection, available now.

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Justin Bieber switched things up for his second Coachella appearance Saturday night, bringing out different guests and performing different classic cuts — but the “singing along with old YouTube videos” segment remained.

The biggest guest star was Bieber superfan Billie Eilish, who Justin brought onstage so he could serenade her with “One Less Lonely Girl.”  The two first met at Coachella back in 2019 and later teamed up on a remix of “bad guy.”

SZA also appeared for her “Snooze” remix with Justin, while Big Sean came out to perform “As Long as You Love Me” and “No Pressure.” Sexyy Red popped up for “Sweet Spot,” while Dijon was on hand for “Devotion.” 

During the YouTube portion of the show, Justin pulled up videos of “One Time,” “U Smile,” “Up” and “Baby,” and his cover of Justin Timberlake”s “Cry Me a River” and sang along to them. “I remember this like it was yesterday,” he said of the Timberlake cover. “The guitar was out of tune.”

“I just was a kid who liked to sing, that was it,” Justin told the crowd, reminiscing about his YouTube cover songs, which is what led to him being discovered.

“Man, it’s been a wild journey. It’s been an emotional journey,” he added.

You can watch the performance on Coachella’s YouTube channel.

Justin’s Coachella performances haven’t just been good for his streaming numbers, either. Vogue Business reports that his Skylrk brand sold over $5 million worth of merch during the first Coachella weekend alone. That beat the previous merch record of $1.7 million over two weekends.

Meanwhile, there may be an indication that Justin is planning to take the show on the road. His website has been updated to read, “Click RSVP below to be notified when new tour dates are announced.”

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The audience during Addison Rae’s Coachella set Saturday night was so surprised they could’ve dropped dead: Olivia Rodrigo popped up to give the live debut of her new single.

Olivia showed up while Addison was performing “Headphones On”: Right after she sang the line, “I compare my life to the new ‘it girl,'” Olivia appeared on top of the stairs on the stage set, wearing a pink bikini top and jeans. She smiled, waved and blew kisses as the crowd went wild.

She came down the stairs in time to join Addison for the line, “You just have to surrender to the moment,” and continued singing through the rest of the song. 

“Coachella, how much do we love Miss Addison?” Liv asked after the song ended. “Oh my God, I might just drop dead,” Addison replied, before they launched into a duet version of Olivia’s new song “drop dead.”

It was Olivia’s second appearance at Coachella: In 2024, she joined No Doubt during their reunion performance to sing “Bathwater” with Gwen Stefani. She has yet to play the festival on her own, but since she’s likely to tour behind her upcoming album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, it may happen in 2027.

You can watch the entire performance on Coachella’s YouTube channel.

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The rumors were true: Madonna was Sabrina Carpenter’s surprise guest Friday night at Coachella.

The Queen of Pop appeared during “Juno,” and teamed with Sabrina for duets of “Vogue” and “Like a Prayer.” The two also performed a new song, possibly called “Bring Your Love,” which is likely from Madonna’s upcoming album Confessions II, a sequel to her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor. 

Madonna also noted the significance of the moment, since it marked her return to Coachella after two decades. “20 years ago today I performed at Coachella — I was in the dance tent and it was the first time I performed Confessions on a Dance Floor in America. And that was such a thrill for me, so you can image what a thrill [this] is for me. … Same boots, with the same corset … so it’s like a full circle moment, y’know?”

Madonna joked, “The other thrilling thing I want to point out is that this is probably the only time I’ve ever performed with someone that’s shorter than me!” 

A few hours after the performance, Madonna released the first song from Confessions II, “I Feel So Free.” The album’s out July 3.

Geena Davis, Madonna’s co-star in A League of Their Own, also appeared during the set in a pre-filmed segment, doing a monologue as an older version of Sabrina. Geena’s Thelma & Louise co-star Susan Sarandon had done the same thing during Sabrina’s first Coachella performance on April 10.

You can watch the whole performance on Coachella’s YouTube channel.

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