Beyoncé endorses Harris for president at Houston rally: “It’s time to sing a new song”

Hypothesis that Beyoncé would make an look on the Democratic Nationwide Conference two months in the past ran rampant for days main as much as the occasion.

The frenzy, nevertheless, did not occur.

On Friday, in entrance of an energized crowd in her hometown of Houston, Texas, the celebrity singer appeared on stage to marketing campaign at Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally on reproductive rights.

“I am not right here as a star, I am not right here as a politician. I am right here as a mom,” Beyoncé stated. “A mom who cares deeply in regards to the world my kids and all of our youngsters reside in, a world the place now we have the liberty to manage our our bodies, a world the place we’re not divided.”

“Think about our daughters rising up seeing what’s potential with no ceilings, no limitations,” she continued. “We should vote, and we’d like you.”

On the finish, Beyoncé — who was joined onstage by her Future’s Little one bandmate Kelly Rowland — launched Harris.

“It is time for America to sing a brand new track. Our voices sing a refrain of unity. They sing a track of dignity and alternative. Are y’all prepared so as to add your voice to the brand new American track?” she stated. “Women and gents, please give a giant, loud, Texas welcome to the subsequent president of the USA, Vice President Kamala Harris.”

She didn’t carry out — not like in 2016, when she carried out at a presidential marketing campaign rally for Hilary Clinton in Cleveland.

Harris’ presidential marketing campaign has taken on Beyonce’s 2016 observe “Freedom,” a reduce from her landmark 2016 album “Lemonade,” as its anthem.

Harris first used the track in July throughout her first official public look as a presidential candidate at her marketing campaign headquarters in Delaware. That very same month, Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles, publicly endorsed Harris for president.

Beyoncé gave permission to Harris to make use of the track, a marketing campaign official who was granted anonymity to debate personal marketing campaign operations confirmed to The Related Press.

Arriving within the back-half of “Lemonade,” “Freedom” samples two John and Alan Lomax area recordings, which doc Jim Crow-era folks spirituals of Southern Black church buildings and the work songs of Black prisoners from 1959 and 1948, respectively. It additionally options Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar.

The Harris rally in Houston highlighted the perilous medical fallout from the state’s strict abortion ban and put the blame squarely on former President Donald Trump.

“We all know freedom is to not be given. It’s not to be bestowed. It’s ours by proper, and we’re ready to battle for it,” Harris stated. “We should be loud. We should manage. We should mobilize. We should energize.”

Since abortion was restricted in Texas, the state’s toddler loss of life fee has elevated, extra infants have died of start defects and maternal mortality has risen.

Beyoncé was not the one big-name celeb at Friday’s rally. Texas native and legendary singer-songwriter Willie Nelson carried out and actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba spoke earlier throughout the rally.