Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez will lend their voices to President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration next week, performing when he officially becomes the 46th president of the United States, Biden's Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Thursday morning.
The
announcement detailing participants in the 59th inaugural swearing-In ceremony
represents one of the more traditional aspects of Biden's inauguration, which
has been largely altered amid the Covid-19 pandemic to accommodate an at-home
audience, and faces new concerns over security in the wake of riots at the U.S.
Capitol last week that left five dead.
Gaga, who
appeared on the campaign trail with Biden during the 2020 election and worked
with the then-vice president on his "It's on Us" campaign to combat
campus sexual assault, will perform the national anthem when Biden is sworn in,
the committee announced.
Lopez, who
endorsed Biden, and took part in a virtual chat with the president-elect during
the campaign, is also slated to give a musical performance at the event.
Biden's
ceremony will begin with an invocation from Father Leo J. O'Donovan, who served
as the 44th president of Georgetown University, and is a longtime friend of
Biden and his family, and also feature a poetry reading by Amanda Gorman, who
was named the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate in the U.S. in 2017.
Biden's
inauguration will also feature a tie to the International Association of
Firefighters (IAFF), a union that has long supported Biden, and was the first
to endorse him in the 2020 race.
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