Saturday March 21, 2020, Calogero addressed his fans via a video posted on Youtube. Confined, like almost a billion people in the world because of the coronavirus epidemic, the singer decided to make himself useful by doing what he can do best: sing. With artist Bruno Guglielmi, who notably collaborated with Julien Clerc and Maxime Le Forestier, the songwriter has created We act as if, to raise funds for caregivers who works night and day to treat victims of the virus. "We would like this song to be useful, so we decided to pay all our rights and all the receipts of this song to the nursing staff " confides the musician in the video.
Calogero, Francis Cabrel, Lou Doillon: the artists mobilize
The song will be available for sale on March 26, 2020. Like him, many artists are mobilized every day around the world to offer the possibility to confined people to escape. Lou Doillon, for example, reads live poems every day for half an hour on Instagram and systematically ends on a musical note accompanied by his faithful guitar. Francis Cabrel, on the other hand, gives voice in duplex from his Lot-et-Garonnaise campaign, to help others to "deceive boredom ". He films himself via his webcam by interpreting his less known songs. "That will be the point" had joked the musician with our colleagues from South West. Everything is relayed on the page Facebook of the label Baboo Music. Artists with a big heart who don't need a stage to have an audience.
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