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Straits Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Show Picks: Black Eyed Peas, Stayc and Show Lo concerts
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox American pop/hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas will be back in Singapore to perform at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Black Eyed Peas – Live In Singapore One of the biggest pop groups of the 2000s, American outfit Black Eyed Peas are behind some of the decade's biggest hits such as Where Is the Love? (2003), Pump It (2005) and I Gotta Feeling (2009). The trio of and Taboo have also consistently released new material in recent years and dropped their ninth album, Elevation, in 2022. With six Grammies to their name, including for Best Pop Vocal Album for their fifth album The E.N.D. (2009), their touring line-up includes vocalist J. Rey Soul, the replacement for singer Fergie, who left in 2018. Soul was the Season 1 finalist of singing competition The Voice Of The Philippines (2013 to 2015) and was mentored by on the show. The group's last concerts in Singapore were in 2022, when they played two sets at the Formula One Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix. Where: Singapore Indoor Stadium, 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium When: Aug 25, 8pm Admission: From $158 to $288 via Sistic (go to or call 6348-5555) 2025 Stayc Tour (Stay Tuned) In Singapore K-pop girl group Stayc's Singapore show is part of their Stay Tuned world tour. PHOTO: LIVE NATION SINGAPORE K-pop girl group Stayc – which comprise Sumin, Sieun, Isa, Seeun, Yoon and J – will be back in Singapore to perform at The Star Theatre, the same venue they played at in February 2024 for their debut show here. Their Aug 16 show is part of a tour that kicked off in Seoul in April and includes dates across Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Best known for tunes such as Stereotype (2021), Run2U (2022), Teddy Bear (2023) and Bubble (2023), the sextet made their debut in November 2020 with the EP Star To A Young Culture. The group – whose name is an acronym for Star To A Young Culture – released debut album Metamorphic in 2024. Where: The Star Theatre, 04-01 The Star Performing Arts Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green MRT: Buona Vista When: Aug 16, 6pm Admission: From $138 to $308 via Ticketmaster (go to or call 6018-7645) Show Lo 30th World Tour Concert 2025 – Singapore Taiwanese singer Show Lo will stage his 30th World Tour in Singapore at the Resorts World Ballroom on Aug 16. PHOTO: SLIDING DOORS ENTERTAINMENT Mandopop singer Show Lo's return concert is part of his tour to mark his third decade in show business. The 46-year-old last performed a solo concert here at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2023 and was in the line-up of the One Love Asia Festival Singapor e a t the Bayfront Event Space in 2022. He has come a long way since winning a 1995 singing and dancing competition in Taiwan with his impersonation of Hong Kong Heavenly King Aaron Kwok. Lo has since released 14 albums, including his most recent, Wu Zhuang Yuan (2024). In a recent interview with The Straits Times, he said the tour marks a milestone in his long music career and Singapore fans can expect to hear many of his hits at the upcoming show. 'Giving it my all, I feel, is the best way for me to repay my fans for the decades of support and love,' he said. Where: Resorts World Ballroom, Resorts World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa Gateway MRT: HarbourFront When: Aug 16, 8pm Admission: $128 to $258 via Sistic
New York Post
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Black Eyed Peas singer apl.de.ap reveals he left stage just minutes before deadly Vancouver festival attack: ‘Our hearts are broken'
Black Eyed Peas singer revealed that he left the stage just minutes before a madman careered his car through a crowd at the Vancouver Filipino festival where he was performing — killing 11 people and injuring many more. The Philippines-born rapper, real name Allan Pineda Lindo, offered heartbroken condolences to the victims in a statement on Sunday. 4 Black Eyed Peas singer posted an emotional statement on Instagram hours after the deadly attack in Vancouver. Instagram / @apldeap 4 A driver plowed into the festival crowd, killing at least 11. 4 'I had just finished performing and left the stage minutes before it happened,' wrote Allan Pineda Lindo in a social media post Sunday. Getty Images 'I had just finished performing and left the stage minutes before it happened,' he said on Instagram. 'It's hard to describe the shock and the heaviness we feel,' he added. Lindo was headlining the Lapu Lapu Festival on Saturday evening alongside singer J-Rey and had finished performing around 8 p.m. when a 30-year-old man barreled through the revelers in a black SUV just as organizers had begun removing barricades to clean up. 4 Police officers work at the scene, the morning after a vehicle was driven into a crowd at a Filipino community Lapu Lapu Day block party, in Vancouver. REUTERS Dozens of people were injured, and officials cautioned that the death toll is likely to rise. Lindo included in his post a list of victim services and mental health crisis lines for anybody affected, and asked his fans to keep the victims and their families in mind. 'The one thing I have noticed – from the audience to the messages sent around, is the sense of community that wraps its loving arms around us. We love you all,' he said. 'Our hearts are broken for the victims, their families, and everyone affected by the tragedy.' This is a developing story. Please check back for more information.
