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Paris (AFP)
Ed Sheeran and DJ Snake in Paris, Coldplay and Billie Eilish in New York and Femi Kuti in Lagos are the headliners of the concerts events for the planet planned for September 25 by the NGO Global Citizen.
On the Champ-de-Mars, in Paris, Black Eyed Peas, Christine and the Queens, Doja Cat, HER and Angélique Kidjo as guest star are also announced, according to the press release from the organizers released on Tuesday, who hope for 20,000 spectators in the French capital. .
Central Park in New York will also benefit from Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo, Meek Mill, Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara, Burna Boy, Cyndi Lauper, Jon Batiste, Camila Cabello and Lang Lang. Lagos will also host Davido, Tiwa Savage and Made Kuti.
Through this “Global Citizen Live” (GCL), artists will call on “governments, big business and philanthropists to work together to defend the planet and overcome poverty, focusing on the most pressing threats”, expose the organizers. The targets are “climate change, equity in vaccines and famine”. To win tickets to the Paris and New York festivals, fans can “support the campaign and take action on GlobalCitizenLive.org”.
These concert events will be broadcast for 24 hours on all continents on September 25 (on ABC, ABC News Live, BBC, FX, iHeartRadio, Hulu, YouTube, TIME, Twitter, among others).
Other locations and performances are to be unveiled at a later date. Rio de Janeiro, London, Seoul, Los Angeles and Sydney are all in the loop. The list of other artists likely to perform live (or be filmed ahead of time) is impressive with Metallica, The Weeknd, Andrea Bocelli, BTS, Duran Duran, Green Day, Lorde, Rag’n’Bone Man or again Ricky Martin.
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In Lagos, the event is expected to have “limited capacity to celebrate Nigerians working on the front lines in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic”. The show will thus be “filmed in advance with a fully vaccinated audience”. In Paris, the health pass will be required. In New York, participants must “be fully vaccinated no later than two weeks before the event” (or present a negative PCR test carried out within 72 hours before), with the wearing of a compulsory mask.
WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has joined “calls by Global Citizen” to denounce “flagrant inequality” in immunization, the statement from GCL organizers read.
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