Chris Martin intrigued onlookers on Monday by kissing the tarmac at Sydney Airport.
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Moments before boarding a private jet bound for Auckland, New Zealand, the Coldplay frontman got down on all fours and pressed his lips to the ground.
We had already seen him do the same thing when he arrived in Malaysia last year, before his concert in this country, and in Indonesia during his previous tour. Chris Martin has not confirmed why he performs this strange gesture, but this ritual could be linked to the fact that he had a brush with death early in his musical career.
The rock star, who formed Coldplay in London in 1997, revealed she almost died in 2005 when her plane was caught in a storm over West Africa. Martin was traveling to Ghana with Oxfam when the disaster struck, as the plane arrived at Tamale airport.
“It was terrifying, the plane was shaken in all directions,” the musician told the newspaper The Sun at the time. “Once a year, for a week, all this dust comes from the Sahara Desert. We couldn’t see anything. I couldn’t see the ground and, as it turned out, neither could the pilot.”
Chris Martin was then married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow, with whom he shares daughter Apple, now 20, and son Moses, 18. During the ordeal, Chris Martin said he was thinking about his daughter, who was just 1 year old. “I said to myself, ‘My daughter is going to have to have a stepfather,’” Chris Martin added.
