Lady Gaga Kicks Off Paris Olympics Playing Piano and Singing Along Seine River
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Lady Gaga delivered a dazzling performance of Renée Jeanmaire’s “Mon Truc en Plumes” (“My Thing With Feathers”) as part of the opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Gaga, who had been spotted in the host city for the past few days, strutted down some steps along the Seine River as she paid homage to Jeanmaire, accompanied by a troupe of eight dancers carrying pink feather fans, then moved over to the piano to continue her performance before getting back on her feet for a razzle-dazzle finale.
In addition to Gaga’s performance, the Olympics opening ceremony is featuring 85 boats carrying the Olympic athletes from each country on a four-mile parade along the Seine River — only a portion of which had passed through before the televised action shifted to the pop superstar.
This marks the first time Gaga has performed at the Olympics, with this brief but showy turn rivaling her 2017 SuperBowl Halftime Show in immediate global impact.
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