With the Grammys just days away, it has been revealed that Lady Gaga will perform at the star-studded ceremony.
The announcement came hours after the 39-year-old singer superstar condemned the ongoing ICE raids in the United States during her MAYHEM ball tour stop in Tokyo, Japan.
Sabrina Carpenter was the first to be announced as a performer at the 68th annual Grammy Awards, set for Sunday, February 1 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, earlier this week.
And now it’s been confirmed that Lady Gaga will take the stage for the second consecutive year.
Justin Bieber, Tyler, The Creator and BLACKPINK’S Rose are also on the 2026 performance roster.
Gaga is up for seven awards at the 68th Grammy Awards, bringing her career total to 45 nominations and 14 wins.
Lady Gaga will perform at the upcoming Grammy Awards ceremony; seen in 2025
She released her seventh solo studio album, MAYHEM, in March 2025. MAYHEM has been nominated for the coveted Album of the Year prize.
Her single Abracadabra is also a serious contender in both the Record of the Year and Song of the Year categories.
Harlequin — a companion soundtrack album released alongside Joker: Folie à Deux, the 2024 sequel film to the 2019 thriller Joker — is also up for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
Gaga was among the performers at last year’s Grammys as she and Bruno Mars sang their collaborative hit Die With A Smile.
The duo dedicated the performance to the victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, which devastated the region in January 2025.
Carpenter is nominated for six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for her latest album, Man’s Best Friend.
Bieber released two albums last year, and his first, Swag, is nominated for Album of the Year as well as Best Pop Vocal Album.
Some of his songs off of the seventh studio album, including Daisies and Yukon, also received nods.
The announcement came hours after the 39-year-old singer superstar condemned the ongoing ICE raids in the United States during her MAYHEM ball tour stop in Tokyo, Japan; seen in 2025
Gaga is up for seven awards at the 68th Grammy Awards, bringing her career total to 45 nominations and 14 wins; seen in 2025
Sabrina Carpenter and Justin Bieber have also been announced as performers
He also released Swag II in September 2025, just past the cutoff date for consideration at this year’s Grammys.
Tyler, The Creator received a total of six Grammy nods incuding Album of the Year and Best Rap Album for Chromakopia. He was also nominated for Best Rap Song for his track Sticky.
Rosé of Kpop fame received her first Grammy nomination this year for her collaborative track APT. with Bruno Mars.
The pop hit is also up for Record of the Year, Song of the Year as well as Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Just hours before the announcement about which musicians would be performing at the Grammys, Gaga made a fiery speech during her show in Tokyo.
While performing in one of four concerts in Tokyo on Thursday, she paused her set to deliver a heartfelt message to the crowd as she joined a growing list of stars speaking out against ICE as tensions over immigration enforcement escalate across the U.S.
‘I want to take a second to talk about something that’s extremely important to me, something important to people all over the world and especially in America right now,’ Gaga told the audience in a now-viral clip.
She said that she would soon be traveling back to the U.S. and shared her ‘heartache’ with the concertgoers in Japan.
Gaga has been on her Mayhem Ball world tour in support of her seventh studio album, which she released last March; seen in 2025
‘In a couple of days, I’m gonna be heading home and my heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families, all over America, who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE,’ she said.
‘I’m thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us.’
Gaga then drew attention to the recent fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, an incident that has sparked widespread scrutiny and protests.
‘I’m also thinking about Minnesota and everyone back at home who is living in so much fear and searching for answers on what we all should do,’ she said.
She continued: ‘When entire communities lose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us. I hope that you’ll all stand with us tonight. I know we’re not in America right now, but we are with our community and we love you.’
She went on to dedicate the song Come to Mama to ‘everyone who is suffering, to everyone who’s feeling alone and helpless, anyone who’s lost a loved one and is it having a difficult time, an impossible time, seeing when the end will be near.’
At one of her four shows in Tokyo on Thursday, Gaga told the audience her ‘heart is aching’ as she prepares to return to the US; Gaga seen in 2025
The Oscar winner went on to say: ‘We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability. Good people shouldn’t have to fight so hard and risk their lives for well-being and respect and I hope, I hope our leaders are listening. I hope you’re listening to us ask you to change your course of action swiftly and have mercy on everyone in our country.
‘At a time where it doesn’t feel like it’s easy to have hope, it is my community and my friends, my family that hold me up,’ she added. ‘So, I would like to sing a song that does have some hope in it, to try to give us a little bit tonight.’
Gaga is the latest high-profile celebrity to speak out against ICE, joining a growing list of stars condemning the agency in the wake of Minneapolis’s deadly incident.
Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Wilde, Wanda Sykes and others have criticized ICE at recent events including the Golden Globes and Sundance Film Festival.
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