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Bob devoted his life to spreading a positive message to all through Reggae Music. One of his most important concerts was The One Love Peace Concert of 1978, Marley brought on stage the Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley and Edward Seaga the leader of political oppression and asked they shake hands as he was always using his music and hoping to inspire and forge bonds of love and peace between any in conflict. Bob was at one time awarded with a United Nations Medal of Peace for his efforts. Musicians like The Beatles and Bob Marley are just a couple of fine examples of what important roles music can play around the world. Without them and many like them the world would be without many important concepts and values we hold high as a society today. Musicians can have a very positive impact and open many doors for change and opportunity. Music encourages us to grow and become ourselves while keeping the connection to
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One fundamental example of this is a very special benefit concert put on in July of 2005 to create an awareness of the misery in South Africa. The Global goal was to make an effort to end poverty. This concert Live 8 held concerts all around the world nearly simultaneously. Will Smith opened the first in the series of sequence in Philadelphia and began with a powerful message that with just one click of a finger he could show representation of the fact that one child dies of hunger every three seconds. In London Bill Gates opened with a powerful speech regarding hunger and in South Africa the crowd was addressed by none other the great Nelson Mandela. There were many other hot spots of the concert some of which included Rome, Japan, Paris and many more. The line up of musicians in London alone range anywhere from Madonna, The Killers, Snoop Dogg, the Who, R.E.M, and even the reuniting of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters for the first time in twenty four years. In Philadelphia a few spotlighted amazing groups were The Black Eyed Peas, Linkin Park, and The Dave Mathews Band. It was estimated that the overall funds raised from this benefit concert was well over four million dollars and was watched live by an estimated three billion people. Talk about an amazing impact by all who entertained, watched, and contributed these benefits all for one common good …show more content…
For seventeen years this non-profit organization had been partnering up with Vans Warped Tour and organizing one of the largest blood donations from youth with incentives like free downloads and VIP backstage passes. Their goal is to educate the youth about important life saving causes like bone marrow donation and blood disorders that leave people in need of blood drives all the while promoting and motivating with simple concepts of music. With more than twenty tours already scheduled for 2014 and an uncountable number of bands at each location it is success after success. Missions like these are for the entire community and awareness and sharing through music is one of the best experiences one can
One fundamental example of this is a very special benefit concert put on in July of 2005 to create an awareness of the misery in South Africa. The Global goal was to make an effort to end poverty. This concert Live 8 held concerts all around the world nearly simultaneously. Will Smith opened the first in the series of sequence in Philadelphia and began with a powerful message that with just one click of a finger he could show representation of the fact that one child dies of hunger every three seconds. In London Bill Gates opened with a powerful speech regarding hunger and in South Africa the crowd was addressed by none other the great Nelson Mandela. There were many other hot spots of the concert some of which included Rome, Japan, Paris and many more. The line up of musicians in London alone range anywhere from Madonna, The Killers, Snoop Dogg, the Who, R.E.M, and even the reuniting of Pink Floyd and Roger Waters for the first time in twenty four years. In Philadelphia a few spotlighted amazing groups were The Black Eyed Peas, Linkin Park, and The Dave Mathews Band. It was estimated that the overall funds raised from this benefit concert was well over four million dollars and was watched live by an estimated three billion people. Talk about an amazing impact by all who entertained, watched, and contributed these benefits all for one common good …show more content…
For seventeen years this non-profit organization had been partnering up with Vans Warped Tour and organizing one of the largest blood donations from youth with incentives like free downloads and VIP backstage passes. Their goal is to educate the youth about important life saving causes like bone marrow donation and blood disorders that leave people in need of blood drives all the while promoting and motivating with simple concepts of music. With more than twenty tours already scheduled for 2014 and an uncountable number of bands at each location it is success after success. Missions like these are for the entire community and awareness and sharing through music is one of the best experiences one can