He refused a large check.
Rock star Rod Stewart revealed in an interview with The Times this week that he brushed off a million dollar offer to sing at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
"I was offered a lot of money, over a million dollars, to play there 15 months ago," the singer told The Times, who is also a football fan.
But according to him, singing in Qatar “was not the right thing to do.
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He is not the only one to have boycotted the competition: the singer Dua Lipa has also made it known that she will not participate in the opening ceremony.
"I'm not going to do this and I've never been in negotiations for this," the star wrote on Instagram.
An anthem composed by South Korean BTS
"I look forward to visiting Qatar when it fulfills all the human rights promises it made, when it won the right to host the World Cup," he said. the singer.
Others answered the call.
The South Korean K-pop group BTS will compose and sing a hymn in collaboration with the "objective of the century" program of the Hyundai brand, official partner of the world.
And several groups are expected throughout the competition such as the Black Eyed Peas, Robbie Williams, Maroon 5, Major Lazer, Fatboy Slim or David Guetta.