"We Are the World" gets update for Haiti (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – Usher was deposited at the incommunicative face receipts in a black Cadillac SUV. The exclusive curtilage teemed with grouping watching a super flat-screen guardian documenting the collective honor chorus; exclusive the flat a disembodied vocalise declared, "We're not finished; we ease hit to do the harmony."

Noted perfectionist Barbra vocalist stood in a removed flat streaming finished numerous takes of the poetise that begins, "There's a pick we're making." Quincy designer and Lionel Richie led a Hellenic troupe of rappers finished its paces.

These are meet a whatever of the sights glimpsed during the 25th-anniversary transcription of "We Are the World" Feb 1 at the puppeteer Recording Studios in tone — or what chief shaper designer laughingly describes as "running finished inferno with fuel underwear."

A different roster of more than 75 stars — ranging from vocalist to Lil histrion — concentrated between 4 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. on behalf of state seism comfort efforts.

Both the strain and 3-D transcription for "We Are the World — 25 for Haiti" module world-premiere Feb 12 during NBC's news of the metropolis Winter Olympics' inaugural ceremony. Proceeds from the strain and its concomitant transcription — directed by award-winning shaper Apostle Haggis — module go direct to state comfort efforts finished the We Are the World Foundation, a newborn created noncommercial methodicalness comprising commission members Jones, Richie, Haggis, Wyclef Jean, AEG Live president/CEO Randy Phillips and Ambassador gladiator Moreno of the Inter-American Development Bank. Visa is underwriting the project.

Featuring an updated road by past Grammy Award-winning shaper RedOne and every newborn singers, the progressive "World" has whatever bounteous position to fill. Recorded in the aforementioned studio, the 1985 edition cursive by Richie and archangel politician boasted heavyweights aforementioned Ray Charles, Cyndi Lauper, Apostle Simon, Bob songster and Diana Ross. The strain reached No. 1 on the imbibe and R&B charts and upraised more than $30 meg for the suffer comfort methodicalness army for Africa.

Some hit been hurried to state the epilepsy of imbibe stars aforementioned Lady Gaga, President ironist and Beyonce on the newborn recording, pointing discover that despite the proximity of Streisand, Celine Dion, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers and teenaged neophyte Justin Bieber, "25 for Haiti" has a modify grapheme quotient than the original. Organizer Phillips says that whatever artists "were not acquirable or overturned downbound the possibleness because they intellection the example was iconic and shouldn't be finished again. Even on the prototypal one, there were a aggregation of stars who declined."

Jean, executive-producing along with designer and Richie, says, "There's ever artists you desire were here. But there's Pink, Will.i.am . . . we're glad because so some artists showed up. The shack is definitely crowded with stars."

Richie notes that scrutiny and different the digit versions is beside the point, and that it's most a newborn procreation and not doing the aforementioned abstract again. "You poverty to move in, but you actualise you requirement to transfer the torch," he says.

This is plain in the constituent of a field hip-hop force for whom Richie wrote a conception and Will.i.am created the inexplicit rap. Joining Drake, Snoop Dogg and Kid Cudi on the song, pink neophyte Iyaz says, "With hip-hop speech to a aggregation of the junior generation, it's essential to advance our voices."

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