SAN DIEGO — Cancer is personal for pop-music vocal dynamo Pink, whose Vietnam War veteran father died of the disease in 2021. That should give added purpose and poignancy to her May 15 performance at San Diego’s Petco Park, where Pink’s only scheduled U.S. concert performance of 2026 so far will be as the headliner of Curebound’s 2026 Concert for Cures fundraiser.

Pink’s performance will benefit Curebound, whose 2025 Concert for Cures at Petco Park was headlined by Elton John and raised $11.5 million for the San Diego nonprofit. Since launching in 2021, Curebound has raised more than $150 million to fund research grants in support of 170 innovative studies across 23 types of adult and pediatric cancers. Alicia Keys and Ed Sheeran were the first two artists to perform Curebound benefit concerts, both at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

“At a time when national research funding remains uncertain, Curebound’s Concert for Cures plays a critical role in sustaining the tremendous momentum cancer research has achieved in recent years,” said Curebound CEO Robin Toft said in a statement released Monday morning.

“We are thrilled to welcome Pink to San Diego and honored that she is lending her extraordinary talent to help Curebound fight this disease that has touched us all.”

Pink’s worldwide album sales over the past 26 years now top 60 million, buoyed by such hit singles as “So What,” “Raise Your Glass” and “Get the Party Started.” Her May Curebound concert at Petco Park will be an encore for her at the landmark downtown baseball stadium, which is the home of the San Diego Padres. She first performed there in 2024, a year after headlining seven miles away at Snapdragon Stadium. Both concerts featured her acrobatic stage shows, during which she at times literally flew over much of her audience in a wire harness.

Her enduring popularity helped the 2023-24 world tour by Pink — born Alecia Beth Moore — earn $693.8 million and sell more than 4.8 million tickets to her 128 stadium and arena shows. Apart from her May 15 Curebound benefit concert at Petco Park, Pink’s only confirmed 2026 performances thus far are April 26 and 27 at Mexico City’s 65,000-capacity Estadio GNP Seguros.

Tickets for her Petco Park concert are priced from $39.95 to $289.95, plus service fees, and will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at curebound.org and ticketmaster.com. Multiple-seat table packages, for which prices have not yet been announced, will also be available through the Curebound website.

A pre-sale will run Wednesday, Feb. 25. from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the Curebound website for anyone who signs up online in advance for early access.

It will be followed by a livenation.com pre-sale — via the Live Nation All Access app— that runs Thursday, Feb. 26, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and by a Padres online pre-sale that runs Thursday from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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