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In a November 2003 interview with Songfacts, Campbell described the recording sessions for "Refugee": That was a hard record to make. It was a 4-track that I made at my house. He (Tom Petty) wrote over the music as it was, no changes, but it took us forever to actually cut the track. We just had a hard time getting the feel right.
"Oh Canada" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins, and inspired by Alan Kurdi—a drowned Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in September 2015. The track was released on 19 February 2016 with 100% of net profits from the song to the Asylum Seeker Resource
"Prayer of the Refugee" is a song by American punk rock band Rise Against, featured on their fourth studio album The Sufferer & the Witness (2006). The lyrics were written by lead vocalist Tim McIlrath , and deal with the themes of forced displacement and the societal issues surrounding refugees .
No Boundaries: A Benefit For The Kosovar Refugees is a benefit album released on June 15, 1999, by Epic Records featuring a handful of artists raising money for Kosovars sent by aeroplane to Australia during the Kosovo War. It was released in Australia on June 21, 1999, and has music from Australian band Jebediah and New Zealand singer Bic ...
The music video, funded by Mick Jagger and set in a refugee camp, aims to raise awareness for Darfur and catch the attention of the United Nations. It was released on 16 September 2007, which is "Global Day for Darfur". [3] [4] [5] The video was shot in Eastern Chad on the border of Darfur. Matt Damon makes a brief cameo in the video. [6]
Echo is the tenth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.Released in April 1999, the album reached number 10 on the Billboard 200 aided by singles "Free Girl Now", "Swingin'" and "Room at the Top", which hit numbers 5, 17 and 19 respectively on Billboard ' s Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1999.
A band with 12 Sudanese members now lives with thousands of refugees in Egypt. The troupe, called “Camirata," includes researchers, singers and poets who are determined to preserve the knowledge of traditional Sudanese folk music and dance to keep it from being lost in the ruinous war.
Refugee is the only studio album from the progressive rock band Refugee, released in March 1974 on Charisma Records. It was re-released under the TimeWave label on 27 June 2006, [ 3 ] and as an expanded three-disc boxed set from Esoteric Recordings in 2019.