Selena Gomez’s Rare Impact Fund Benefit Sets Leon Bridges and Bella Kay as Performers

Leon Bridges and Bella Kay will join Selena Gomez for her annual Rare Impact Fund Benefit, Billboard can exclusively reveal.

The fourth annual event, titled Rare Impact Fund Benefit: A Night of Radiance & Reflection, takes place Oct. 14 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Gomez will host the evening, and Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor and comedian Sean Hayes will serve as emcee.

Bridges brings a Grammy-winning career and a Billboard chart history to the stage. His 2013 debut album, Coming Home, peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, and his 2018 follow-up, Good Thing, also reached No. 3. His 2021 album, Gold-Diggers Sound, debuted at No. 51 on the chart.

Kay was recently featured on the cover of Billboard’s “The Up-And-Comers” issue, spotlighting her as an artist to watch.

Bridges stated to Billboard that participating in an event creating real, tangible access to help for young people is a privilege. Kay noted that music has always been an outlet for making sense of her mental health and vulnerabilities, making an evening dedicated to youth mental health support close to home.

“I’m deeply grateful to every one of our amazing sponsors and to the extraordinarily talented Leon Bridges and Bella Kay for supporting our fourth annual Rare Impact Fund,” Selena Gomez stated to Billboard. “Shining a light on youth mental health is something we cannot do alone, and having their support not only inspires me, but directly touches the lives of millions of young people around the world.”

The performances anchor an evening built around fundraising for the Rare Impact Fund, which Gomez launched in 2020 alongside Rare Beauty. The organization has raised more than $30 million and supports 30 nonprofit partners across five continents, reaching an estimated 3.5 million young people annually.

The fund is working toward a goal of mobilizing $100 million for organizations that increase access to youth mental health services and education around the world.