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Three months aft the decease of Olivia Newton John, Pink paid homage to the Grease prima astatine 2022 American Music Awards, performing a screen of "Hopelessly Devoted To You."
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At the 2022 American Music Awards connected Nov. 20, Pink delivered an affectional philharmonic tribute to Olivia Newton-John, who passed distant implicit the summer.
During the powerhouse show from wrong the Microsoft Theater astatine L.A. Live successful Los Angeles, Pink covered the singer's classical "Hopelessly Devoted To You" from the 1978 deed movie Grease. For the chills-inducing moment, the "So What" singer donned a glitzy nude gown featuring agelong sleeves and opulent feathers. As she belted retired the ballad, photos of the precocious prima were shown connected the large surface down her, bringing immoderate assemblage members to tears.
This was Pink's 2nd clip taking the AMAs signifier that evening. Earlier successful the night, the 43-year-old got the party started by opening the amusement with a high-energy performance of her new single, "Never Gonna Not Dance Again."
Olivia died astatine the property of 73 in August aft a agelong conflict with bosom cancer. According to an Instagram post shared to her relationship by her husband, John Easterling, the "Physical" singer passed "peacefully" astatine her Southern California ranch portion surrounded by household and friends.
"Olivia has been a awesome of triumphs and anticipation for implicit 30 years sharing her travel with bosom cancer," the station read. "Her healing inspiration and pioneering acquisition with works medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching works medicine and cancer."
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Ahead of her AMAs performances, Pink—who walked the reddish carpet with her hubby Carey Hart and their 2 kids Willow, 11, and Jameson, 5—said getting the accidental to wage tribute to Olivia was "an implicit honor."
"I had the pleasance of being around her respective times and she was arsenic darling arsenic you would imagine," she told KABC during the AMA unrecorded reddish carpet preshow. "She was specified an icon, and it's a truly large grant to beryllium capable to sing her."
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