Her concert in Egypt came just days after she wrapped up The Lifetimes Tour, the global tour supporting her seventh studio album 143 (2024) and her first full-scale tour in more than seven years.
Launched in April 2025, the tour comprised 91 shows across five continents—North America, South America, Oceania (Australia), Europe, and Asia—and concluded on 7 December in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Praised as a “spectacular career-spanning show,” the tour featured her biggest hits alongside new tracks from 143.
The private event at the Pyramids on 9 December replicated the tour’s signature production and setlist for an exclusively invited audience.
While this was Perry’s first-ever performance at the Giza Plateau, she had visited Egypt before, and her connection to the country goes back years.
Her previous visit was in 2019, when she celebrated her 35th birthday with her then-fiancé, British actor Orlando Bloom. The couple shared photos of themselves riding a camel at the Giza Pyramids with their millions of followers on social media.
Her artistic ties to Egypt go back even further: in 2014, Perry appeared as “Katy Patra”—a mash-up of her name and Cleopatra—an imagined ancient Egyptian queen in the music video for Dark Horse. The video is a spectacle of appropriation, featuring elaborate costumes, cat-headed bodyguards, and symbols like the Eye of Horus.
However, its release sparked controversy when a scene showed Katy Patra disintegrating a suitor wearing a pendant with the Arabic word for God (Allah), prompting accusations of blasphemy from some Muslim viewers. Following a large online petition, the video was edited and the pendant digitally removed.
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