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Harry Belafonte's Impact On We Are The World

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Introduction Imagine seeing a little girl in Africa, starving, needing food, suffering but her family does not have enough money to provide her the help she desperately needs. Her mother died due to birth complications, consequently, her dad was left to take care of his daughters, additionally, he can not find a job. A helicopter lands and every citizen runs up to to greet it along with the young girl, they realize that it is carrying food. She wonders where all of this food could have come from, one of the pilots explains that in the United States many of the most famous singers came together to record a song that served as a fundraiser for everyone in Africa to aid with their hunger. Many people who grew up in the 80’s have familiarity …show more content…

The thought was that this would be a good way to raise money and of those performing were the most famous singers then enough money could be raised to assist everyone suffering in Africa. The song began as “just an idea that the calypso singer Harry Belafonte had for a benefit concert featuring black musicians” (We Are The World, SongFacts). With his idea Belafonte was trying to arrange production by attempting to recruit famous singers to help with his song. In late December 1984, pursuing possible artists, Belafonte called Ken Kragen, who managed an impressive roster of talent, including Lionel Richie (We Are The World, …show more content…

He got the organization of United Support of Artists (USA) to help with the song and he expressed his desire for it to be a charity event, so he was going to have them raise money from sales of the song. He began calling his colleagues and the people he knew, he tried calling Stevie Wonder multiple times but could not get a hold of him so he decided to cut Stevie Wonder from the project. After he decided that he couldn't get Stevie on the project he went for Michael Jackson instead, when Michael got the phone call he said yes, almost immediately (‘We Are The World’: Still Spinning at 30). Michael Jackson, a much more popular artist, boosted the recognition of the

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