In 10 days, voters will head to the polls on Election Day for a bevy of elections around the country, including key gubernatorial and mayoral races. In New York City, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been busy hitting the campaign trail. Along the way, he’s made a few surprise musical stops, including his cameo at PinkPantheress‘ show on Friday at Brooklyn’s King Theatre.
At her first stop on her residency-style An Evening With PinkPantheress tour, the singer was in the midst of performing “True Romance” from her 2023 debut album, Heaven Knows, when she dropped a surprise. As she was singing, the video backdrop behind her flashed on a pair of splayed hands. Written in marker on one hand’s palm were the words, “Our Time Has Come,” and on the other: “Vote Nov 4.” As the camera panned out in the black-and-white video footage, it revealed a smiling Mamdani, whose surprise appearance drew loud cheers from the audience.
Meanwhile, PinkPantheress didn’t miss a beat, continuing to perform as she ascended the tiered platforms onstage to grab a marker and write something on the palm of her hand. As she descended to the foot of the stage, she shared her own handwritten message for Mamdani, to which fans also responded positively: “We ♡ U!” PinkPantheress wrote.
Last month, Mamdani also made a surprise appearance at All Things Go 2025 during its New York edition at Forest Hills Stadium, joining Lucy Dacus onstage before she performed. In a campaign video back in July, he met up with Wu-Tang Clan at their purported final Madison Square Garden show. In the clip, he meets backstage with rap luminaries including Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, Killer Mike, El-P, and Jadakiss to discuss his platform. “There are too many people for whom stability, space, raising a family, you can only do it outside of New York City,” he tells RZA in the video. “The whole campaign that we ran on is about ‘How do we make the most expensive city in the United States of America affordable?’”
On Nov. 4, Mamdani, independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa will appear on the New York ballot for the New York mayoral race to replace incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who suspended his reelection campaign in late September.