Dua Lipa and Nile Rodgers Team Up for Chic Classic ‘Le Freak’ at MSG Show in New York

Dua Lipa is continuing her streak of teaming up with iconic artists connected her Radical Optimism World Tour.

On Saturday nighttime (Sept. 20), the 30-year-old British popular prima delivered the 3rd amusement of her four-night tally astatine New York’s Madison Square Garden, wherever she amazed fans by bringing retired legendary instrumentalist Nile Rodgers for an electrifying show of Chic’s 1978 disco classical “Le Freak.” Watch it here.

Lipa has go known for performing a locally inspired screen astatine stops connected her Radical Optimism tour, which launched its U.S. limb astatine Chicago’s United Center earlier this month.

During her erstwhile MSG shows, the “Dance the Night” vocalist paid tribute to the metropolis with covers of New York staples, including Alicia Keys’ “No One” and Blondie’s “One Way oregon Another.”

“Here successful New York, I’m really spoiled with the choice,” Lipa told the assemblage earlier her Blondie cover.

At the tour’s U.S. kickoff successful Chicago, Lipa brought retired hometown fable Chaka Khan to execute a almighty rendition of the 1983 deed “Ain’t Nobody.”

The contented of determination covers began earlier successful the twelvemonth during her stops successful Australia and New Zealand, wherever she performed songs by artists specified arsenic AC/DC, Lorde and Kylie Minogue. She besides welcomed peculiar guests including Troye Sivan, Tame Impala and Crowded House’s Neil Finn.

While the inclination continued little often during the European leg, she did execute Enrique Iglesias’ “Hero” successful Madrid. In London, she brought retired Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay for “Virtual Insanity” astatine Wembley Stadium, followed the adjacent nighttime by a impermanent quality from Charli XCX for her deed “360.”

Other notable tributes included The Zutons’ “Valerie” with frontman Dave McCabe successful Liverpool, The Beatles’ “Hey Jude,” and a heartfelt show of “Nothing Compares 2 U” successful Dublin successful grant of precocious Irish vocalist Sinéad O’Connor.

Lipa is acceptable to wrapper up her four-night MSG stint connected Sunday (Sept. 21) earlier continuing the North American limb with stops successful Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, followed by a tally of dates done South America and Mexico.

After a little interruption successful August pursuing 2 months of shows crossed Europe, Lipa resumed touring successful North America with back-to-back shows successful Toronto connected Sept. 1–2.

The Radical Optimism World Tour supports Lipa’s 3rd workplace album, Radical Optimism, which debuted astatine No. 2 connected the Billboard 200 successful 2024. The medium produced respective hits, including pb azygous “Houdini,” which spent 17 weeks astatine No. 1 connected Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.