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Tyla, Rema, Amaarae & Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Are Performing at Coachella 2025: Here Are the African Acts Who’ve Played the Festival Before

Ahead of weekend one of Coachella 2025, Billboard rounded up African acts who've performed at the festival before.

Frontman Jupiter Bokondji was one of several musicians who participated in an event hosted by U.N. representatives and the Sean Penn-co-founded emergency relief non-profit CORE during the first weekend of the festival that year to learn about artists’ role in promoting efforts to fight famine across the globe. “Performing at Coachella is a dream come true, and we are going to kill it and represent the amapiano culture at the highest level,” the twin brother DJ/producer duo told Drum ahead of their set. Mbongwana Star brought its post-punk-meets-Congolese rumba sound from Kinshasha, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo — which the seven-piece band named its critically acclaimed 2015 debut album after — to the Gobi Tent in 2016.

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