Pink Honors Olivia Newton-John on the AMAs With "Hopelessly Devoted to You" Performance

In her second efficiency of the evening, Pink graced the American Music Awards viewers with a transferring tribute to the late Olivia Newton-John. The artist sang a beautiful rendition of “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” taking to the stage to flawlessly belt the excessive notes on the basic “Grease” ballad, which, after all, Newton-John famously sang as Sandy within the 1978 film. Though Pink wasn’t accompanied by any backup dancers and flashing lights like many of the evening’s different performances, the additional house allowed the track’s emotional energy and her voice to shine, and the tribute was made all of the extra transferring by the portraits of Newton-John that stuffed the display behind her.

While on the crimson carpet at first of the evening, the artist honored Newton-John, who died on Aug. 8. “She was an absolute icon, and in addition, she was a beautiful human being,” the artist instructed Entertainment Tonight. “I liked her voice. My daughter simply bought executed doing Grease in her theatre manufacturing, and he or she really helped me be taught the track.”

Earlier within the evening, Pink introduced the home down together with her first stay efficiency of her new single “Never Gonna Not Dance Again.” After exhibiting a clip from the track’s music video, the star roller-skated onto the stage together with a number of acrobatic backup dancers to ship a Nineteen Eighties-inspired efficiency of the monitor. The artist, who was joined by her household on the AMAs, launched “Never Gonna Not Dance Again” on Nov. 4, full with an accompanying music video. In the video, she roller-skates and dances her approach round a grocery retailer till she turns it right into a full-on social gathering.

On Nov. 14, Pink introduced a large summer season live performance tour titled Summer Carnival 2023. She’ll play 21 ballparks throughout North America, with assist from Brandi Carlile, Pat Benatar, Grouplove, and KidCutUp. It appears she’ll launch a brand new studio album – her ninth – earlier than then, although a title and launch date have not been introduced. In 2021, she launched a stay album, “All I Know So Far: Setlist.”

On Nov. 6, Pink was one of many artists who helped induct Dolly Parton into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She shared photographs from the evening on Instagram on the time, “Just casually inducting DOLLY PARTON into the Hall of Fame, singing with my buddy Brandi CARLILE and Sheryl CROW and DOLLY!!!!! Oh and Annie LENNOXXXXXXXXXXX and simply hanging out within the hallway with my new bestie Olivia RODRIGO who’s by the way in which SO SWEET!” The ceremony aired on HBO Nov. 19.

Ahead, try extra photographs of her AMAs performances.

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