Tyla Debutes On Coachella With Chick And Style
South African pop sensation Tyla made an unforgettable debut at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Friday. She captivated the crowd with a performance that was equal parts sultry spectacle and vocal wonder.
Emerging onto the desert stage during Weekend 1, Day 1 of the iconic festival, Tyla embodied summer heat with her look. She effortlessly fused high fashion with festival flair. Tyle was dressed in a glittering gold bikini top beneath a slouched white crop tee. She paired the ensemble with red-and-white brocaded Dolce & Gabbana bottoms, black-fringed accents, and artfully shredded fishnet stockings.
Also, with a Leopard-print mesh, Leona boots from Burju completed the look. She paired them with glinting hoop earrings, stacked wrist bangles, and a belly chain that caught the light with every move. But it wasn’t just her style that turned heads.
Tyla During Coachella 2025
Tyla’s set, rich with polished choreography and genre-blending soundscapes, delivered several surprises. Starting from a hypnotic mashup of her track “On and On.” Additionally, Aaliyah’s iconic “Rock the Boat” nod bridged R&B generations with smooth finesse. The performance was a reminder of Tyla’s signature ability to honor the past. Meanwhile pushing the boundaries of contemporary pop.
Adding another highlight to the night, Latin pop star Becky G joined Tyla onstage for a fiery rendition of their collaboration “On My Body.” The synergy between the two artists was electric. Becky G matched the aesthetic energy in a white and yellow bralette. Adding matching shorts and Dalmatian-print faux fur boots by 1XBlue—a playful contrast to Tyla’s own glam-punk stylings.
Thus, the moment marked a full-circle moment for the duo. Since, Becky G recently presented Tyla with the Impact Award at the 2025 Billboard Women in Music ceremony. On that red carpet, Tyla spoke to the spirit of artistic influence and vulnerability.
“You never know how something you say or do—a lyric, a performance—might ignite in someone else and what they, in turn, will pass forward to another person,” she said. “I feel very lucky—for my fans, my Tygers, who have given me such an exciting life, allowing me to share and grow into all the different versions of myself as an artist and as a woman.“
During her Coachella set, Tyla gave that gratitude a tangible form—spray-painting her name in neon green across a towering tiger statue onstage, a bold shoutout to her loyal fanbase, affectionately dubbed the “Tygers.”
She closed her set with the global smash “Water,” the viral hit that catapulted her into international stardom. The track’s signature dance break ignited the crowd, reminding everyone why Tyla has quickly become one of the most compelling performers of her generation—a seamless fusion of internet-era virality and old-school star power.
At just 23, Tyla’s Coachella debut felt less like a breakout moment and more like a coronation. A new pop queen had officially arrived, and the desert was her kingdom.
