Sabrina Carpenter’s headlining set at Lollapalooza in Chicago on Sunday boasted a surprise appearance from Earth, Wind & Fire.
“Does anyone wanna dance tonight?” the Man’s Best Friend artist asked the crowd before introducing Chicago’s own. “I have this idea. Let’s see how you feel about it. I guess I just thought it would be really, really fun if I could bring out some friends for you guys and we can just let loose, right? We can just groove. So I thought, why not bring out my friends from Chicago?”
Fittingly, the Grammy-winning group then joined Carpenter for their 1981 Raise! single “Let’s Groove.” As a follow-up, Carpenter and the band performed another Hot 100 hit, 1978’s “September.”
Sabrina isn’t the only Lolla headliner to have surprised fans with a top-tier special guest during their set. As previously reported, Olivia Rodrigo, whose GUTS era has now seemingly come to a close, tapped into the wide world of Weez by bringing out Rivers Cuomo and company.
Next for Sabrina is a new album, Man’s Best Friend, out later this month. The album comes just over a year after her blockbuster sixth full-length Short n’ Sweet, which took home the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album in February, besting albums from Taylor Swift and Chappell Roan in the process.
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