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will.i.am performs "Yes We Can" during the final day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.. Since the original posting on YouTube, the video has been re-posted a number of times by other users and as of February 23, 2008, the video had been watched a combined total of more than 22 million times among all of the postings. [5]
"I'll Overcome Some Day" was a hymn or gospel music composition by the Reverend Charles Albert Tindley of Philadelphia that was first published in 1901. [2] A noted minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Tindley was the author of approximately 50 gospel hymns, of which "We'll Understand It By and By" and "Stand By Me" are among the best known.
The filmmaker and painter Jeff Scher directed a music video for Baez's performance of the song. [1] Scher used pastels and watercolour to depict the victims of the shooting as well as the church and Obama. [1] The Kronos Quartet covered the song with singer Melkit on their 2020 album Long Time Passing, dedicated to the music of Pete Seeger. [4]
[clarification needed] The song celebrates the Irish ancestry of the then Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Barack Obama. The song was a minor hit in the Irish charts, peaking at number 24 in November 2008.
The lyrics were written by the band's lead vocalist Bono, taking partial inspiration from his recollection of his first trip to London, and from the band's experience playing in New York City in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks during their Elevation Tour in 2001. Other lyrics refer to Bono's relationship with his wife Ali. The song's ...
Obama then started rapping the lyrics from Eminem’s hit song “Lose Yourself” from the 2002 movie “8 Mile.” ... Obama has enjoyed Eminem’s hit song on the campaign trail before. In 2016 ...
Eminem made a last-minute appearance at tonight’s rally for the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign, introducing former President Barack Obama at an event in his native Detroit. The rapper took the ...
The song was released digitally on August 24, 2008. It was inspired by Barack Obama 's presidential campaign and was later posted as a free download on Obama's website. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song also alludes to Gandhi's quote, "Be the change you want to see in the world," with the lines "We don't have to wait for destiny / we should / be the change ...