Pharrell Williams and Fergie are set perform at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game.
The National Basketball Association have announced that the ‘Happy’ hitmaker and his band N.E.R.D will headline the sporting extravaganza’s half-time show on February 18 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, while the 42-year-old pop queen will take to the stage to sing the American national anthem prior to tip-off.
The game will see a mix of the best league stars from the Eastern Conference and Western Conference form two teams – comprised of 12 players each side – and go head-to-head.
The winning team will have money donated to their previously-chosen charity.
The match will air from the Staples Center and will be seen in more than 200 countries.
The big gig couldn’t have come at a better time for Pharrell, 44, and his band as they’ve just released their fifth studio album ‘No One Ever Really Dies’ but it’s believed they will perform a medley of chart-topping hits when they take to the stage for the headline slot.
Fergie, on the other hand, dropped her second full-length album ‘Double Dutchess’ in September last year but it was a somewhat stressful time for her as 2017 saw her split from her Josh Duhamel, whom she has four-year-old son Axl Jack, after eight years of marriage.
The 42-year-old singer said recently: "There are some very extreme differences on the album. Silly songs that are just ridiculous… to completely serious soul-baring lyrics and feelings that I’ve had and just written in my journals, and was able to express as therapy, basically, with the music — I don’t know how to do it any other way."
The split meant Fergie had to push back the release date of her album, which marked her return as a solo artist, because she was trying to deal with her emotions, but it was made harder by the fact she couldn’t tell anyone what was happening.
Pharrell Williams and Fergie to perform at 2018 NBA All-Star Game
