Rapper Ludacris is set to play a show at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on July 4.
The three-time Grammy winner, who has been filming parts of “Fast and Furious 8” in Havana, will headline 2016’s “Freedom Festival” at Guantanamo’s Windward Ferry Landing.
“Every year we get a special guest around the Fourth of July, but Gitmo hasn’t seen a star with as big a name as Ludacris in several years,” Navy Chief Monique Hilley said, according to the Miami Herald. “The base is really looking forward to it.”
The Herald described the concert venue as a parking lot miles from the detention center where prisoners suspected of terrorism are being held, and who will not be able to hear any of the performance.
Ludacris’ show will, however, be seen and heard by the 6,000 people who live in and around the base, including troops, their families and Defense Department contractors.
Many big-name artists have played Guantanamo in recent years, including pop-punk band the Plain White T’s, who performed there in October. Magic! headlined the Freedom Festival in 2015, and Jimmy Eat World did so the previous year.
According to the Herald, Ludacris will be the most high-profile show at the base since Jimmy Buffett did a show at the Lyceum movie theater in December 2002.
