--- title: Jay Z, Beyonce Make Coachella Cameos With Nas, Solange description: The superstar couple showed up unannounced at the music festival in California so Bey could join her sister Solange for a rendition of "Losing You" and Jay could team up with former rival Nas on "Dead Presidents II" canonical: https://time.com/60809/jay-z-beyonce-coachella/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-13T17:58:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:45.481Z og:title: Jay Z, Beyonce Make Coachella Cameos With Nas, Solange og:description: The superstar couple showed up unannounced at the music festival in California so Bey could join her sister Solange for a rendition of "Losing You" and Jay could team up with former rival Nas on "Dead Presidents II" og:url: https://time.com/60809/jay-z-beyonce-coachella/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38c5484a6d33aeb7/69868a713bc9998c9f1a2eb5/484508137.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2014 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 1 - Day 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jay Z, Beyonce Make Coachella Cameos With Nas, Solange twitter:description: The superstar couple showed up unannounced at the music festival in California so Bey could join her sister Solange for a rendition of "Losing You" and Jay could team up with former rival Nas on "Dead Presidents II" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38c5484a6d33aeb7/69868a713bc9998c9f1a2eb5/484508137.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # WATCH: Jay Z and Beyoncé Make Surprise Appearances at Coachella by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 13, 2014 5:58 PM UTC  Solange, right, and Beyonce perform onstage during day 2 of the 2014 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2014 in Indio, California. Solange, right, and Beyonce perform onstage during day 2 of the 2014 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 12, 2014 in Indio, California.Jeff Kravitz—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 13, 2014 5:58 PM UTC If you were bopping around New York City looking for Jay Z and Beyoncé this weekend, wondering why you couldn’t find them, it’s because they quietly made their way to Indio, Calif., for the Coachella music festival. (Even if they _were_ in New York, you probably aren’t fancy enough to be anywhere near them anyway.) Both artists surprised the crowd with unannounced appearances Saturday night. First, Beyoncé joined her younger sister Solange for a choreographed duet of Solange’s “Losing You” (watch a video of their performance above). It’s awesome, and then they embrace, and you’re a _monster_ if you don’t love everything about it. Later in the evening, not wanting to be outdone by his wife, Jay Z took the stage alongside his former nemesis Nas to perform “Dead Presidents II” and “Where I’m From.” O.K., before we really didn’t care, but now we’re _kind_ of sad we missed Coachella this year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/60809/jay-z-beyonce-coachella/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/60809/jay-z-beyonce-coachella/"},"headline":"WATCH: Jay Z and Beyoncé Make Surprise Appearances at Coachella","datePublished":"2014-04-13T17:58:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:45.481Z","description":"The superstar couple showed up unannounced at the music festival in California so Bey could join her sister Solange for a rendition of \"Losing You\" and Jay could team up with former rival Nas on \"Dead Presidents II\"","url":"https://time.com/60809/jay-z-beyonce-coachella/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Beyonce","Jay-z","Music Festivals","Arts","entertainment","Coachella","solange"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38c5484a6d33aeb7/69868a713bc9998c9f1a2eb5/484508137.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt38c5484a6d33aeb7/69868a713bc9998c9f1a2eb5/484508137.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2014 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 1 - Day 2","caption":"2014 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 1 - Day 2","creditText":"Jeff Kravitz—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/60809/jay-z-beyonce-coachella/","name":"WATCH: Jay Z and Beyoncé Make Surprise Appearances at Coachella"}}]}] ```