Katy Perry To Join Lionel Richie At King Charles Coronation Concert

Katy Perry is officially performing at King Charles Coronation Concert on Sunday, 7 May, the BBC confirmed over the weekend.

Perry is joining her fellow American Idol judge, Lionel Richie, as a performer, with Andrea Bocelli, Take That (minus Robbie Williams), Sir Bryn Terfel, Freya Ridings, and Alexis Ffrench also slated to play.

Katy Perry, an ambassador for The British Asian Trust - a charity founded by King Charles, said in a statement, “I am excited to be performing at the Coronation Concert and helping to shine a further light on the British Asian Trust’s Children’s Protection Fund, whose work includes on-ground initiatives to fundraising, with the aim to find solutions to child trafficking.”

Richie added, “To share the stage with the other performers at The Coronation Concert is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and it will be an honour and a celebration.”

While Perry and Richie said yes to performing at the Coronation Concert, stars such as Adele, Spice Girls and Ed Sheeran declined.

"The King has suggested a number of people he would like to perform, and Adele and Ed were on that list. He was very keen that they were part of the concert," a source involved in the concert told The Daily Mail in February. 

They added, "There is a team set up to get the talent signed up, but they were unavailable, which was a massive disappointment. They are titans of the showbiz industry and are quintessentially British but also known across the globe. It's such a shame."

Last month, rap superstar Snoop Dogg revealed his interest in performing at the Coronation Concert, telling The Sun newspaper, “I’m down to perform at the coronation. Make it happen.”

He added that when the British government attempted to deport him in the 1990s when he was facing murder charges (of which he was later acquitted), the Queen sided with Snoop.

"When they tried to kick me out of England, the Queen made a comment that her grandbabies loved Snoop Doggy Dogg, and he had done no wrong in Britain, so she gave me permission to be here," he said.

“Those grandbabies grew up to be Prince William and Harry, so I had influence on them and they had influence on their grandmother, which enabled me to get into this beautiful country.

“They love my music. There’s mutual love and respect.”