{"id":50106,"date":"2025-10-26T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/26\/zohran-mamdani-makes-a-surprise-appearance\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:03:25","slug":"zohran-mamdani-makes-a-surprise-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/26\/zohran-mamdani-makes-a-surprise-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani Makes a Surprise Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn 10 days, voters will head to the polls on Election Day for a bevy of elections around the country, including key gubernatorial and mayoral races. In New York City, Democratic mayoral candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/zohran-mamdani\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zohran-mamdani\" data-tag=\"zohran-mamdani\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> has been busy hitting the campaign trail. Along the way, he\u2019s made a few surprise musical stops, including his cameo at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pinkpantheress\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pinkpantheress\" data-tag=\"pinkpantheress\">PinkPantheress<\/a>\u2018 show on Friday at Brooklyn\u2019s King Theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt her first stop on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pinkpantheress-fancy-that-residency-tour-1235365822\/\">residency-style An Evening With PinkPantheress tour<\/a>, the singer was in the midst of performing \u201cTrue Romance\u201d from her 2023 debut album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/pinkpantheress-heavens-knows-review-1234871713\/\">Heaven Knows<\/a><\/em>, when she dropped a surprise. As she was singing, the video backdrop behind her flashed on a pair of splayed hands. Written in marker on one hand\u2019s palm were the words, \u201cOur Time Has Come,\u201d and on the other: \u201cVote Nov 4.\u201d As the camera panned out in the black-and-white video footage, it revealed a smiling Mamdani, whose surprise appearance drew loud cheers from the audience.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tMeanwhile, PinkPantheress didn\u2019t miss a beat, continuing to perform as she ascended the tiered platforms onstage to grab a marker and write something on the palm of her hand. \u00a0As she descended to the foot of the stage, she shared her own handwritten message for Mamdani, to which fans also responded positively: \u201cWe \u2661 U!\u201d PinkPantheress wrote.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast month, Mamdani also made a surprise appearance at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/all-things-go\/\">All Things Go<\/a>\u00a02025 during its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/all-things-go-nyc-2025-lineup-doechii-lucy-dacus-clairo-1235322509\/\">New York edition<\/a>\u00a0at Forest Hills Stadium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/zohran-mamdani-lucy-dacus-performs-all-things-go-sufjan-1235436712\/\">joining Lucy Dacus onstage<\/a> before she performed. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/zohran-mamdani-wu-tang-clan-nyc-affordable-1235392891\/\">campaign video <\/a>back in July, he met up with Wu-Tang Clan at their purported final Madison Square Garden show. In the clip, he meets backstage with rap luminaries including Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s RZA, Killer Mike, El-P, and Jadakiss to discuss his platform. \u201cThere are too many people for whom stability, space, raising a family, you can only do it outside of New York City,\u201d he tells RZA in the video. \u201cThe whole campaign that we ran on is about \u2018How do we make the most expensive city in the United States of America affordable?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn Nov. 4, Mamdani, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa will appear on the New York ballot for the New York mayoral race to replace incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/eric-adams-drops-out-new-york-mayoral-race-1235436975\/\">suspended his reelection campaign<\/a> in late September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pinkpantheress-zohran-mamdani-new-york-show-surprise-cameo-1235454442\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 10 days, voters will head to the polls on Election Day for a bevy of elections around the country, including key gubernatorial and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":50107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}