The solidarity concert strategy is not new, but it is still effective in establishing, at least momentarily, a manifesto on a specific topic. "Live Aid", "Live 8", "Live Earth" or "Peace without Borders" are shows for a cause.
This Saturday the concert " One world: Together at home " ("One world: together at home"). Its promoter, Lady Gaga , presented this initiative at the beginning of the month with the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , as the main objective is to pay tribute to health workers around the world who lead efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic . (We recommend: "My heart hurts because of the nurses who sleep in their cars so as not to infect their families": Lady Gaga ).
The poster includes Colombians Juanes, Maluma, J Balvin, who will be alongside Elton John, Paul McCartney, Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish, Idris Elba and other stars not linked to the music scene, such as former soccer player David Beckham.
The show will be worldwide and promises to offer more than eight hours of live music that can be followed in Colombia through Canal Caracol , in Latin America through channel E! Entertainment or through the website of Global Citizen , a festival that has been held since 2012 within the framework of the United Nations General Assembly and that fuses music and activism to demand an end to extreme poverty.
Last year's " Global Citizen " was held in Central Park, New York, where 60,000 people gathered. There was present Queen , the rock band that with Adam Lambert as vocalist, revived the spirit "Live Aid", the concert performed in 1985.
The solidarity concert strategy is not new, but it is still effective in establishing, at least momentarily, a manifesto on a specific topic.
The " Live Aid " was held on July 13, so every year the International Day of Rock n 'Roll is celebrated . In 85, the singer and political activist Bob Geldof organized two concerts simultaneously: one at the Wembley Stadium in London (England) and at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia (United States) with the purpose of raising awareness, through of music, about the poverty of Ethiopia and Somalia.