Justin Bieber Performs For The First Time Following Facial Paralysis Diagnosis
Justin Bieber performs onstage at the Coachella Stage during the 2022 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 15, 2022 in Indio, California.
Justin Bieber is back to performing again, following his Justice world tour postponement due to his diagnosis of Ramsay Hunt Syndrome in June.
Per the New York Post, the 28-year-old Canadian singer took the stage at the Lucca Festival in Italy Sunday (July 31) night. Biebs captioned one of several Instagram posts today marking his return to performing, writing, “Luv u guys and I missed you.”
“I want to say thank you so much for having me back. This is my first day back,” he said in another video posted to Instagram from the show. “So good to be here. As some of you guys know, the Justice Tour is about equality. It’s about justice for all. No matter what you look like, no matter your shape, your size, your ethnicity. We’re all the same, we are all one. We know that racism is evil and we know that division is evil, it is wrong. But we are here to be the difference makers. And I want to say thank you to each and every one of you guys for being a part of this tour.”
His wife, model Hailey Bieber, 25, was also in attendance and shared a video of Bieber singing “Holy” on her Instagram Story writing, “One thing I know for certain is you can’t keep this guy down…”
Justin Bieber’s 6 Best Songs Of All Time Ranked
The month of March kicks off with a very important holiday — Justin Bieber’s birthday. The “Peaches” singer was born on March 1, 1994, in Ontario, Canada. Justin learned to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet while growing up in Canada. When he was 12 years old, Bieber performed Ne-Yo’s “So Sick” for a local singing competition, in which he placed second. His mother, Pattie Mallette, posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and friends to see and continued to upload videos of her son singing covers of popular R&B songs. With this, Bieber’s popularity on the site grew. Bieber also used to busk on the steps in front of concerts at Avon Theatre.
Scooter Braun, So So Def Recordings’ former marketing executive, accidentally came across one of Bieber’s YouTube videos and tracked him down. Impressed with his talent, Scooter convinced Bieber’s mom and their church elders to let him go with him to Atlanta to record demo tapes. One week later, Bieber began singing for Usher and signed with Usher and Braun’s Raymond Braun Media Group at 13 years old. Braun signed on to be Bieber’s manager in 2008. His debut single was 2009’s “One Time,” with his first EP being My World. The EP had such popular hits like “One Time,” One Less Lonely Girl,” and “Favorite Girl.”
As we previously reported, Bieber sold his song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. The sale has been called the largest of any artist of Bieber’s generation. Bieber’s net worth is estimated to be about $300 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Of the sale, Braun called JB a “once-in-a-generation artist and that is reflected and acknowledged by the magnitude of this deal.”
With six albums below his belt and over 150 million albums sold worldwide, see which Justin Bieber songs made the top of our list below.
Laila Abuelhawa is the Top 40 and Hip-Hop pop culture writer for Beasley Media Group. Being with the company for over three years, Laila's fierce and fabulous red-carpet rankings have earned her a feature on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!' Her favorite stories are those surrounding the latest in celebrity fashion, television and film rankings, and how the world reacts to major celebrity news. With a background in journalism, Laila's stories ensure accuracy and offer background information on stars that you wouldn't have otherwise known. She prides herself in covering stories that inform the public about what is currently happening and what is to come in the ever-changing, ever-evolving media landscape.
