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Un Geste pour Haïti

Published: Jan 30, 2010 by admin Filed under: Music Views: 192 Tags: donation to haiti, earthquake, haiti relief
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They are quiet, solemn, write their texts on a piece of paper, or repeated words they scrawled on their way to the clip and the song A move to Haiti. The recipes in this title, recorded this weekend and will be available on the download sites pay tomorrow, will be donated to the Red Cross and orphanages in Port-au-Prince.

During two days, sixty artists and personalities paraded in a studio recording of the twentieth arrondissement of Paris, answering the call of the cable channel Trace TV, the stresses of rappers Passi and Neg'Marrons and host RFI Claudy Siar. The latter opened his address book: Michel Drucker, Lilian Thuram, Harry Roselmack, Anthony Kavanagh ... "It would be ten, twenty at the beginning, said Passi, who set up the project with his accomplices. And then we got so many calls that day has doubled the studio. "

Reconstruction. So after Charles Aznavour and Grand Corps Malade Friday, a last batch of artists on Saturday for a ten-minute piece to be cut into several versions. Behind the soundboard, lance Zazie Passi: "We'll make another decision." It takes two steps: "Should we wait until the earth trembles, the earth begins to open our hearts too to Haiti? "" That's the question I posed to me first, "says the singer, and all of us. It's good that cares so much the better, but the gesture is done today is also the Haiti of tomorrow. "

Lilian Thuram added his slogan in Creole: "Tchimbé raid pa moli moli c ki raid" (hold on, is when you let go it gets hard). Haitian born in Canada, Anthony Kavanagh said: "When people ask me if I go to Haiti, I reply that it is useless. They do not need a comedian on the spot, they need rescue. What I am doing is more important. "The rapper Kery James French, born in Haiti, has also cut short a trip to the studio to write a song, Sorry, where he will invite Christophe Maé, Youssou N'Dour, Diam's and Oxmo Puccino. There will be live acoustic February 14th at the Bataclan, all proceeds will go to the Foundation of France to help rebuild Haiti.

Donations by SMS. Organize concerts, is also the option of Canadian artists of Haitian origin who succeed all week in Quebec to raise funds. Wyclef Jean, Haitian musician most popular American culture was the most reactive. After Tuesday night soon developed a device for sending donations via SMS for Yele.org his organization, the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations made a return trip to Port-au-Prince on Thursday to return Friday visibly affected. It will hold a telethon with George Clooney on Thursday and participated yesterday in a collection of essential commodities in Miami on behalf of his organization.

Meanwhile, the American stars make public the amount of checks they sign: For Madonna, $ 250 000 (175 000), 1 million (700 000) for Sandra Bullock or couple Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt, 1, 5 million for the top model Gisele Bundchen

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