Ryan Gosling is Kenough to sing live at the Oscars

Ryan Gosling is Kenough to sing live at the Oscars

Billie Eilish, Finneas, and the Osage Singers are also slated to perform at the ceremony in Los Angeles on March 10.

Gosling is up for the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in ‘Barbie’. (Warner Bros pic)
LOS ANGELES:
Ryan Gosling, the Academy Award-nominated star of the hit film “Barbie”, will perform the power ballad “I’m Just Ken” at the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony on March 10, one of five songs up for a golden statuette, organisers announced yesterday.

Also slated to take the stage are Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas for another “Barbie” tune, the introspective “What Was I Made For?”.

Scott George and the Osage Singers will perform “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon”, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.

Rounding out the list are Jon Batiste singing “It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony”, a documentary about the musician and his wife; and Becky G singing “The Fire Inside”, written by perennial nominee Diane Warren for “Flamin’ Hot”.

While Eilish’s song won two Grammys and is the clear favourite, “I’m Just Ken” – written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt – was one of the highlights of the blockbuster, and fans had clamoured for Gosling to sing on Oscars night.

In the film, the actor – wearing a white fur coat and bandana over bleached blond hair – leads a horde of Kens in an epic song-and-dance number.

“Doesn’t seem to matter what I do / I’m always number two,” he croons. “I’m just Ken / Anywhere else, I’d be a 10 / Is it my destiny / To live and die a life of blond fragility?”

The song charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

Yesterday, Malaysia’s own Michelle Yeoh was named among the star-studded lineup who will present during the Oscars ceremony, which will be broadcast live from Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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