Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will join Biden and other world leaders in a star-studded COVID-19 vaccine concert

• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will appear at VAX LIVE, a star-studded COVID-19 vaccine concert.
• The concert will be hosted by Selena Gomez and attended by world leaders, including President Joe Biden.
• VAX LIVE will air on ABC, CBS, FOX, YouTube, and on iHeartMedia platforms on May 8.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will join "VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World," a May 8 benefit concert for the COVID-19 vaccine, Global Citizen announced Tuesday.

The royal couple will serve as co-chairs for the event, according to a Tuesday press release from Global Citizen. President Joe Biden will speak at the concert as part of the White House's "We Can Do This" effort, which exists to increase confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.

"Over the past year, our world has experienced pain, loss, and struggle-together. Now we need to recover and heal-together," Harry and Meghan said in a statement from Global Citizen obtained by Insider. "We can't leave anybody behind. We will all benefit, we will all be safer, when everyone everywhere has equal access to the vaccine. We must pursue equitable vaccine distribution, and in that, restore faith in our common humanity. This mission couldn't be more critical or important."

Selena Gomez will host the star-studded show, which will include performances from Jennifer Lopez, the Foo Fighters, and H.E.R.

Vice President Kamala Harris and first lady Jill Biden will also make an appearance at the event.

The performances will be pre-recorded before an audience of frontline healthcare workers and other essential workers, the press release said. It will be recorded at SoFi Stadium in the California city of Inglewood, just outside of Los Angeles.

The hour-long concert will be broadcast in the US on ABC, CBS, FOX, and iHeartMedia. YouTube will air an extended 90-minute version of the concert, featuring additional performances from NCT 127, Picture This, and YouTubers Daniel El Travieso, Kati Morton, ShootforLove, Thembe Mahlaba, and The Try Guys.

Harry and the Bidens have met on numerous occasions

Harry was first pictured with the then-vice president and then-second lady in 2012 at the White House.

In 2014, Jill Biden attended the inaugural Invictus Games, Harry's charity sporting event for injured and wounded service personnel. The two were pictured together at the event in London.

The current president told the Daily Mail, jokingly, that when Jill Biden attended the Invictus Games in 2014, "she spent too much damn time" with Harry.

The First Lady has supported Harry's Invictus Games since its inception.

According to a press release from the US Department of Defense, Jill spoke about the Colorado sporting event that Harry had attended in 2013 and inspired him to create the multi-national Invictus Games.

She said Harry "saw our Warrior Games in Colorado, and so now he's brought it to a global scale, and we have 14 countries and 400 athletes competing, and it's been great."

Markle and Harry have been vocal about US politics

After she and Harry moved to California in 2020 after leaving their roles as working members of the British royal family, Markle made history by voting in the US election. Voting is something royals don't typically participate in as they are supposed to remain politically neutral.

In the 2020 presidential election, Markle and Harry also encouraged Americans to vote on numerous occasions, and political activism is something they will continue to prioritize, a spokesperson for the couple told Insider in November 2020.

During a Time100 special, Markle called it "the most important election of our lifetime," which some people interpreted as a way of targeting then-President Donald Trump.

An article published in September in Vanity Fair cited a source close to Markle who said they think the duchess would consider running for president if she didn't have a royal title.

Representatives for Markle and Harry did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment at the time about Markle's rumored political aspirations.