Noga Erez tells Coachella she’s ‘heartbroken’ about situation at home |
Indie artist Noga Erez, while performing her first of her two shows at California music festival Coachella, shared thoughts with the audience about being an Israeli artist coming from a country at war.
“To get us all here took kind of, like, forces I didn’t know I had,” said Erez, who has shared on social media about the trials of getting out of Tel Aviv during the war with her partner Ori Rousso, their toddler daughter, and crew.
“I’m so fucking grateful to be here,” added Erez to the cheers of the crowd.
“I’m just heartbroken and sad because of things that are happening at home and around it,” she said. “I just love this music thing so much and right now doing this thing is exactly what I’m doing it for, to put a bunch of strangers together and make them feel like a family, united around something.”
“We’re doing it. This is Coachella, un-fucking-believable,” said Erez.
Erez is the first Israeli artist to perform at the festival, a pair of long weekends in the California desert with 100........