{"id":47894,"date":"2025-09-06T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47894\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:27:07","slug":"dua-lipa-performs-with-chaka-khan-at-chicago-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/47894\/","title":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa Performs With Chaka Khan at Chicago Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/dua-lipa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dua Lipa<\/a> treated fans to a surprise during the opening U.S. date of her Radical Optimism World Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn Friday (Sept. 5), the 30-year-old British pop star launched a two-night stint at Chicago\u2019s United Center, dazzling the sold-out crowd with striking costumes and a 22-song setlist that featured tracks from her latest album, Radical Optimism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMidway through her performance, Lipa \u2014 dressed in a sparkly black coat with feathered sleeves \u2014 stunned fans by welcoming music legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/chaka-khan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaka Khan<\/a> to the stage. Together, the duo performed a powerful rendition of Khan\u2019s 1983 classic \u201cAin\u2019t Nobody.\u201d Watch fan-captured footage of the moment <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/consequence\/status\/1964316521745822196\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Lipa has shared the stage with iconic artists during her global tour. Earlier this year, she was joined by Crowded House\u2019s Neil Finn during a stop in New Zealand, and later brought out Jamiroquai in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter a brief break in August following a two-month run across Europe, Lipa returned to North America with back-to-back shows in Toronto on Sept. 1\u20132. Check out Billboard\u2019s recap of the six best moments from her opening night at Scotiabank Arena <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/dua-lipa-toronto-concert-recap-best-moments-scotiabank\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe U.S. leg of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/pop\/dua-lipa-dates-2025-radical-optimism-world-tour-1235774152\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radical Optimism tour continues<\/a> Saturday (Sept. 6) with a second show in Chicago, before heading to cities including Boston, Atlanta, New York, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tReleased last year, Radical Optimism is Lipa\u2019s third studio album and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The project delivered several chart hits, including lead single \u201cHoudini,\u201d which spent 17 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard\u2018s Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs chart. In support of the album, Lipa launched the Radical Optimism tour in November 2024, performing in arenas across Asia, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dua Lipa treated fans to a surprise during the opening U.S. date of her Radical Optimism World Tour.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[5020,18,117,1883,19,17,337,2624],"class_list":{"0":"post-47894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-concerts","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-genre-pop","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-music-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}