Why Nigerian Music Stars, Kizz Daniel, Patoranking, Didn’t Feature At 2022 World Cup Opening Ceremony

Nigerians some days back raised a storm online when the 2022 Qatar World Cup kicked off without some of their music stars, who they thought would perform at the opening event.

Stars like Kizz Daniel, Patoranking and Davido went viral months ago when it was announced that they would perform at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. However, it has now been clarified that the Nigerian singers were not billed to perform at the opening ceremony but at the official Fans Festival of the tournament.

Many Nigerians were stuck to their TV on Sunday, November 20, 2022, in anticipation of seeing some of their favourite singers, like Kizz Daniel, Patoranking and Davido, performing at the opening ceremony of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

But they were disappointed as none of these Afrobeat superstars took the stage to perform on the largest football stage.

LEADERSHIP gathered that why the music stars didn’t perform at the opening ceremony, but rather they would take to stage during the Fans Festival in Doha, the capital of Qatar.

The Fans Festival flyer recently seen online showed that Kizz Daniel is set to perform at the carnival on November 23, 2022, and Patoranking would perform on the 28. While the bereaved DMW boss, Davido, has been dropped completely from the event as he continues to mourn the loss of his first son, Ifeanyi Adeleke, who died weeks ago.