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Remarkable Effort Ten Years in the Making Features Collaborations with Artists Around the Globe, Including Keb’ Mo’, U2’s Bono and Bob Marley
Further proving that music is the universal language, more than 100 musicians across the planet are entwining talents to promote world peace. Playing for Change – Songs Around The World, a 10-tune CD/ seven-track DVD, captures mixes of known artists and street musicians from locales as far-flung as Nepal, the Himalayas and the Palestinian territories.
Grammy-winning engineer Mark Johnson spent 10 years seeking and sequencing montages, including footage of the late Bob Marley on his War/No More Trouble updated with U2’s Bono and players from the Congo, Israel, India, Ireland, South Africa, the USA, Zimbabwe and Ghana.
A Video of Stand By Me, includes musicians from the
Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Venezuela, France and
Brazil has drawn 7 million YouTube viewers (also at
www.playingforchange.com). Others tackle Marley’s One
Love, U2/Bob Dylan’s Love Rescue Me, Peter Gabriel’s Biko
and Tracy Chapman’s Talkin’ Bout a Revolution.