The beloved band will play together for the first time in nearly a decade when they hit the Coachella music festival stages in April
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No Doubt reunited in 2012 to release their sixth album Push and Shove and last performed live together in 2015, but the group has focused on solo endeavors since. Stefani was the group’s vocalist, backed by guitarist Tom Dumont, bassist Tony Kanal and drummer Adrian Young.
“It’s just going to be cool. It’s just going to be: get up there and do what we always do, which is play our music and try to connect and be so grateful that we got this amazing career that we never expected to have,” says Stefani of quite literally getting the band back together.
“You’ve got to remember, we were in No Doubt for nine years before “Just a Girl” got on the radio. We weren’t doing it to make it. And so now to be here in 2024 and have that excitement of the announcement? It’s beyond,” she adds.
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Stefani also admitted she’s “completely overwhelmed” by the warm reception No Doubt has received post-announcement, and “I definitely have that little thing in your stomach where you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh! What?’” she says of the butterflies. “It’s going to be amazing.”
The three-time Grammy winner, who is married to Blake Shelton, also has three sons with her ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. In the wake of the Coachella reunion news, Stefani says she shared a sweet moment with her youngest.
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“I had to literally lay in bed with Apollo and he’s like, ‘But mom, what is Coachella? Everyone’s saying it. What is this? It sounds like it’s a big deal.’ So we had to watch the “Don’t Speak” video, and he’s like, ‘But wait, which one was your boyfriend?’ It was so weird and so funny. I literally had to tell him each band member,” Stefani explains with a laugh.
Her son’s budding interest in her history made Stefani realize just how much time has passed since her No Doubt days — and how much she has to be grateful for.