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All benefits from the album sales go to Haiti relief organizations, including the Red Cross and Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti foundation. Hope for Haiti Now features 19 live performances from the television broadcast Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief as well as the studio version of "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)", an original ...
"Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)" is a song recorded by Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge and Rihanna for Hope for Haiti Now, a live album by various artists to benefit the campaign of the same name to alleviate the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The song was written by Jay-Z, The Edge and Bono and produced by Swizz Beatz.
Other radio stations throughout the United States echoed similar responses on the song getting airplay. [39] The song also sold over 267,000 downloads in three days. [38] [40] "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" debuted at number eight on the Canadian Hot 100 dated for February 27. [41] The song also debuted at number six in Belgium Wallonia and ...
And Haiti-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean has tried to bring the music and its artists into the mainstream. His 1997 solo album, Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival, featured konpa-inspired songs in ...
Recorded live on the charity telethon Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief on January 22, 2010, in New York City. She performed the song during the program, exactly before Wyclef Jean's speech and after Reese Witherspoon's call on the phone bank. The song is found on the charity benefit album, Hope for Haiti Now.
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief was a charity telethon held on January 22, 2010, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (January 23, 2010 from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. UTC). The telethon was the most widely distributed telethon in history. [ 3 ]
Miami Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, who met with Haiti’s new prime minister in Washington D.C. on Friday, suggested that the Haitian diaspora in South Florida should play a bigger role ...
Haiti is still trying to recover from a 2010 earthquake that its government said killed more than 300,000. The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided more than $2 billion to fund ...