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Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
Flickr By Jacquelyn Smith and Vivian Giang Before they rose to fame, many of the world's wealthiest and most recognized celebrities struggled for money. And some weren't just poor - they were
Live 8 [a] was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa.They were timed to precede the G8 conference and summit held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland, from 6–8 July 2005.
Venezuela Aid Live was a concert to benefit Venezuela in Cúcuta, Colombia, a city near the Venezuelan border, on 22 February 2019.The all-day concert, called Música por Venezuela: Ayuda y Libertad (transl. Music for Venezuela: Aid and Freedom), [2] was organized by Richard Branson and Bruno Ocampo, and featured over thirty of the best known Latin American artists [3] from nine countries.
Before Taylor Swift's Eras Tour touches down in New Orleans this weekend, Louisiana's governor ordered multiple state agencies to relocate homeless people living in or around areas where tourists ...
Global Citizen has held an annual music festival since 2012, one of the organization's main events to raise awareness of global poverty and climate change; founded in 2008, it aims to end poverty by 2030. The live 2021 festival, held across six continents, was the largest, as part of Global Citizen's 2021 Recovery Plan for the World program.
Sixto Diaz Rodríguez (July 10, 1942 – August 8, 2023), mononymously known as Rodríguez, was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.. Though his career was initially met with little fanfare in the United States, he found success in South Africa, Australia (touring the country twice in his earlier career), and New Zealand.
The Homeless World Cup is based on a true story. Lisa Wrightsman explains how street soccer changed her life and the reality behind the movie, including what it gets right.