Rihanna, Black Coffee stun festival

Pop superstar Rihanna capped a celebrity-filled Coachella festival on Sunday with a surprise appearance, as her sometime songwriter Sia took a sharply different approach by testing the possibilities of on-stage anonymity.

Black Coffee performs at the 2016 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Weekend One at the Empire Polo Club in California on Sunday. The first weekend of the festival closed the same way it began: awash with anticipation.
Black Coffee performs at the 2016 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Weekend One at the Empire Polo Club in California on Sunday. The first weekend of the festival closed the same way it began: awash with anticipation. (MATT WINKELMEYER/GETTY IMAGES)

Rihanna turned up unannounced on stage during a headlining set of Calvin Harris, the British DJ behind a slew of electronic-infused smash hits.

Sporting a camouflage cap, Rihanna went into her song We Found Love, which was written by Harris, to the cheers of thousands of fans at the close of three days of revelry in the heat of the California desert.

  • DJ Black Coffee's set drew praise from concert-goers who took to popular social media sites Twitter and Snapchat to share their experience with friends.

The set was the first of two that Black Coffee will be performing at the festival, with the other happening this coming weekend.

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