Kacey Musgraves took her Coldplay fandom to the next level over the weekend, bringing out singer Chris Martin for a one-off collaboration. The pair shared the stage at Global Citizen Festival‘s Mandela 100 in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a sweet rendition of Musgraves’ “Rainbow” from the album Golden Hour.
Musgraves, who onceperformed a version of Coldplay’s breakout hit “Yellow” for an audience that included Prince Harry, was one of a diverse group of performers at the festival, including Beyoncé, Usher, Femi Kuti and Pharrell Williams. Her band was also on hand to perform (which they do around the 2:47 mark in the full video below), but the “Rainbow” performance features only Martin seated at the piano and Musgraves singing the hopeful song to an ecstatic crowd.
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“We can’t choose the color of our skin or the means in which we come from but we CAN choose to love, find common ground, & simply help fellow humans in any way big or small,” Musgraves tweeted, along with a clip of the performance, referencing the festival’s mission of raising money for global issues such as the environment, poverty, water shortage and education.
Musgraves gets a short break at the end of 2018, before firing up the North American leg of her Oh, What a World Tour on January 9th in Indianapolis, Indiana.