The Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Album just added its most emotionally cinematic entry yet. “Illuminate,” a new collaboration between Jessie Reyez and Elyanna, is out now via SALXCO UAM and Def Jam Recordings, produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Cirkut. It brings together alternative R&B, global pop, and Middle Eastern influence in a track built around emotion, identity, and cross-cultural connection. Listen here.
The pairing carries real weight. Reyez is one of the most fearless voices in contemporary R&B and pop, a Toronto-rooted global force with 2 RIAA 2x Platinum singles in “Imported” and “Figures,” a Polaris-longlisted album in ‘Yessie,’ and a songwriter’s résumé that includes Dua Lipa, Sam Smith, Kehlani, LISA of BLACKPINK, and Calvin Harris. Elyanna is a Palestinian-Chilean artist raised in Nazareth who became the first artist to perform in Arabic at Coachella, has collaborated with Coldplay on “We Pray,” and has been steadily bringing Middle Eastern sounds to global audiences at a scale few have managed before.
Together on “Illuminate,” their distinct perspectives lock into something genuinely moving, a track that earns its place on a global stage without reaching for it. Reyez is donating her artist fee to charitable causes, while Elyanna intends to support charitable initiatives aligned with the tournament’s global moment.
“Illuminate” joins a growing album that already includes “Lighter” by Jelly Roll and Carín León, “Por Ella” by Los Ángeles Azules and Belinda, and “Echo” by Daddy Yankee and Shenseea. Each track brings a distinct cultural perspective, and “Illuminate” adds a dimension none of the others occupy, more emotional, more cinematic, more interior.
Reyez arrives at this collaboration in full momentum. Her fourth studio album ‘A LITTLE VENGEANCE’ arrives June 12 via FMLY/Island Records, and she has already described it as her most daring and uncompromising work yet. A book of poems, a Grammy-winning soundtrack contribution, Billboard Canada’s Women in Music Trailblazer Award, and major festival runs across South America, Australia, Asia, and North America all sit in the recent rearview. The next chapter is already in motion.