{"id":213643,"date":"2026-06-13T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/who-sang-with-katy-perry-10-year-old-norwegian-tius-luka-hits-world-cup-stage-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:49:07","slug":"who-sang-with-katy-perry-10-year-old-norwegian-tius-luka-hits-world-cup-stage-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/who-sang-with-katy-perry-10-year-old-norwegian-tius-luka-hits-world-cup-stage-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Who sang with Katy Perry? 10-year-old Norwegian Tius Luka hits World Cup stage &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><mark>Editor&#8217;s<\/mark> note:<\/strong><\/em><a href=\/story\/sports\/soccer\/worldcup\/2026\/06\/12\/usa-paraguay-live-score-updates-2026-world-cup\/90532183007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a><em><strong>Follow along live for 2026 World Cup opening match<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> and the<\/strong><\/em><a href=\/story\/sports\/soccer\/worldcup\/2026\/06\/12\/world-cup-opening-ceremony-usa-watch-katy-perry\/90518213007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a><em><strong>star-studded opening ceremony<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Katy Perry took the stage about 10 minutes before kickoff of the United States&#8217; <a href=\/sports\/soccer\/world-cup\/ data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>2026 World Cup<\/a> opening match against Paraguay. She performed &#8220;Wonder&#8221; while holding the hand of a 10-year-old Norwegian singer Tius Luka, who sang the opening and closing lines of the song.<br \/>Luka <a href=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZd0OSfTFlq\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>recorded the song with her in 2021 when he was 5 years old<\/a>. Perry posted <a href=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZd0OSfTFlq\/ data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>a video of her and Luka on social media ahead of the performance<\/a>, saying, &#8220;I heard his voice in 2023 and was inspired to write the verses for &#8216;Wonder&#8217; and added it to my sixth album. Tius is 10 now and flew all the way to LA from Norway to sing this song with me.&#8221;<br \/>The internet was buzzing over her sparkly silver dress, which had a structured hoop that cause it to sharply jut out at the waist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxNbXdMRmVJRmJFUTd4TGVhTTBHb0RlZGcteHliNzlOSmt4aGhDTG9ZeE9ZYlZpY1J6Rll5Zi1wUDhreWl3blZyRm0wemx0QlhtNWJnczZkdENiX3RPS2JtNDBsSmpXMmVmU2JjSDBSNl9KbFpsYXQ0enZLZG5Md1JLcHhMek1RaG9nTC1JeFBUWU9sY3l1eE1UVVFiOFcxbFdUY2RocUF1OHdaMEx5Q0czdUlvU1poZWVod1lGQWFOZEZGbTlwUTNkT1k0em5UX3ZWZjlB?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note:Follow along live for 2026 World Cup opening match and thestar-studded opening ceremony!Katy Perry took the stage about 10 minutes before kickoff of the United States&#8217; 2026 World Cup opening match against Paraguay. She performed &#8220;Wonder&#8221; while holding the hand of a 10-year-old Norwegian singer Tius Luka, who sang the opening and closing lines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}