Stars Join Annie Lennox for AIDS Song
10/26/07
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(PR) Annie Lennox has teamed up with 23 of the worlds most acclaimed female superstar voices for the charity record Sing, to raise money and awareness for the HIV/AIDS organisation, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). Featuring Guest Vocals From Madonna, Celine Dion, P!Nk, Shakira, Kt Tunstall, Dido, Faith Hill, Fergie, Sugababes, Beth Orton, Bonnie Raitt, Martha Wainwright, Joss Stone, Melissa Etheridge, Angelique Kidjo, Beverley Knight, K.D Lang, Shingai Shoniwa Gladys Knight, Isobel Campbell and Sarah Mclachlan. The track, already available to download through iTunes and other online outlets, will be physically released along with the special remixes on SATURDAY 1st DECEMBER WORLD AIDS DAY. The track is taken from Annies new album Songs of Mass Destruction released this week.
Annie Lennox recently spent 2 weeks in South Africa with the TAC, recording the real situation millions are facing every day, so the people unaware of the pandemic might gain some understanding. There are few resources to help medicate sufferers or educate the people about the prevention of HIV/AIDS. The trip will be documented across online, TV and print media produced by Annie Lennox herself. Included among the group of superstar voices are TAC local activist members own vocal group, known as "The Generics," whose CD of social / political activist songs inspired Annie to make Sing a reality. Annie then personally approached each of the female artists by letter and the recordings were made all over the world in each artist local studio over the spring of 2007.
TAC was founded on 10 December 1998 in Cape Town, South Africa. They campaign for treatment for people with HIV and to reduce new HIV infections. Their efforts have resulted in many life-saving interventions, including the implementation of country-wide mother-to-child transmission prevention and antiretroviral treatment programmes. The TAC also runs a treatment literacy campaign: this is a training programme on the science of HIV treatment and prevention.
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