{"id":467880,"date":"2025-01-27T02:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T20:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=467880"},"modified":"2025-01-27T02:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T20:51:24","slug":"ed-sheeran-becomes-first-international-music-artist-to-perform-in-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/ed-sheeran-becomes-first-international-music-artist-to-perform-in-bhutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran becomes first international music artist to perform in Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran just created history as he became the first international music artist to perform a concert in Bhutan. Recently, the \u2018Shape of You\u2019 hitmaker took to his social media, and shared a video on Instagram featuring highlights of his time in the South Asian country as he reflected on the milestone, reports \u2018People\u2019 magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u201cHad the honour to be the first ever international artist to play Bhutan last night\u201d, he wrote in the caption, referring to his January 24 show at Changlimithang Stadium in the capital of Thimphu. \u201cWhat a gig, what a country, what a beautiful place with incredible people.\u201d It seems his Bhutan visit had quite an impact on him, as he continued, \u201cLemme know if I can move there, please and thank you\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>As per \u2018People\u2019, the singer concluded his caption by thanking the country for welcoming him and his touring crew for the \u201chistoric show\u201d and sharing his hope that he would \u201csee you again soon\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In the video, the four-time Grammy winner shared more thoughts about his musical first. \u201cIt\u2019s mad that this is the first international concert here\u201d, he said as he stood by the stage setup at the Bhutan venue. \u201cI hope that there\u2019s many more to come\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>He also revealed that he had a chance to share a meal with the country\u2019s royal couple, King Jigme Khesar and Queen Jetsun Pema. \u201cI went for dinner with the king and queen yesterday and they said, \u2018We just want people coming to the country that want to love and respect the country and understand the ideals\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>He added, \u201cYeah, I feel super honored that I was chosen and I can\u2019t wait to play. This is like such my jam (sic)\u201d. The video then cuts to footage of the singer rocking out onstage during the concert, as the crowd roared and jumped up and down in excitement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran just created history as he became the first international music artist to perform a concert in Bhutan. Recently, the \u2018Shape of You\u2019 hitmaker took to his social media, and shared a video on Instagram featuring highlights of his time in the South Asian country as he reflected on the milestone, reports \u2018People\u2019 magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}