Lady Gaga To Perform At 2026 Grammys, Stops Tokyo Leg of Mayhem Ball Tour To Condemn ICE

14-time Grammy winner and multiple 2026 nominee Lady Gaga will perform at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, the Recording Academy announced on Thursday. Mother Monster is also speaking out against the monstrous events in Minneapolis.

via: Variety

Lady Gaga delivered a heartfelt speech and spoke out against ICE during one of her Mayhem Ball concerts in Tokyo, Japan.

Gaga, who wraps up five nights at the Tokyo Dome on Jan. 30, said, “I want to take a second to talk about something that’s extremely important to me. Something important to people all over the world and especially in America right now. In a couple of days, I’m gonna be heading home and my heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families, all over America, who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE. I’m thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us.”

She has become the latest celebrity to speak out against ICE, after figures like Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Wilde, Wanda Sykes and more condemned the organization at the Golden Globes and Sundance Film Festival recently.

During her speech, Gaga talked about Saturday’s shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Minn. She is set to play in St. Paul in April.

“I’m also thinking about Minnesota and everyone back at home who is living in so much fear and searching for answers on what we all should do. When entire communities lose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us. I hope that you’ll all stand with us tonight. I know we’re not in America right now, but we are with our community and we love you,” she said.

She went on to dedicate the song “Come to Mama” from her fourth studio album “Joanne” to “everyone who is suffering, to everyone who’s feeling alone and helpless, anyone who’s lost a loved one and is it having a difficult time, an impossible time, seeing when the end will be near.” She went on to say, “We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability. Good people shouldn’t have to fight so hard and risk their lives for well-being and respect and I hope, I hope our leaders are listening. I hope you’re listening to us ask you to change your course of action swiftly and have mercy on everyone in our country. At a time where it doesn’t feel like it’s easy to have hope, it is my community and my friends, my family that hold me up. So, I would like to sing a song that does have some hope in it, to try to give us a little bit tonight.”

Throughout her career, Gaga has leveraged her platform to stand up for the LGBTQ+ community. During the tour, she has worn a sash sporting the colors of the trans flag, and on some stops she has waved the flag. During “Paparazzi,” her long cape — the length of the stage — turns into a rainbow-colored Pride flag.

The singer wraps the Tokyo portion of her tour tomorrow. On Sunday, Gaga is set to perform the Grammy Awards where she landed seven nominations including album of the year, (“Mayhem”), song of the year, (“Abracadabra”) and record of the year (“Abracadabra”). Her haul topped her previous nomination record of six, which she scored back in 2010. Gaga ties for the second-most nominations with producers Jack Antonoff and Cirkut, who also found seven to be their lucky number this year.