Latin music stars Marc Anthony, Luis Fonsi, Chayanne, Feid, Jay Wheeler and plenty of extra will carry out at a world profit live performance livestreamed from Miami on Aug. 16 to lift cash for these impacted by devastating earthquakes in Venezuela and Colombia.
Proceeds from on-line donations and ticket gross sales collected throughout the “Unidos por Los Nuestros,” or “United for Our Personal,” live performance will tackle each speedy and longterm wants, together with rebuilding properties, repairing colleges and neighborhood areas, supporting youngsters and offering psychological well being assist, amongst different initiatives.
“Uniting for a typical trigger — taking motion and serving to fellow human beings going through hardship — is an obligation all of us share,” stated Anthony, a a number of Grammy Award winner whose nonprofit Maestro Cares Basis will administer the funds together with the Univision Basis.
Proceeds from the live performance will assist the nonprofit teams All Fingers and Hearts, CARE, World Empowerment Mission, Techo and World Central Kitchen.
The occasion was initially created to profit Venezuela after 7.2- and seven.5 magnitude earthquakes rocked northern areas of the nation simply 39 seconds aside on June 24, killing not less than 6,300 individuals. These plans modified Monday, when western elements of Colombia additionally skilled a lethal 7.4-magnitude earthquake, spurring occasion organizers to incorporate the neighboring nation.
Authorities and residents are simply starting to know the devastation in Colombia, the place not less than 181 individuals have been killed and greater than 2,500 injured, however researchers there have known as it the nation’s worst quake this century.
For Venezuela, the fundraiser comes at a vital time as public and media consideration fades on a humanitarian disaster that can final years, stated Rodner Figueroa, co-founder and vice chairman of the I Love Venezuela Basis, which channels sources to nonprofits working in Venezuela and is a World Empowerment Mission companion.
“The most important problem proper now’s to maintain the second alive,” stated Figueroa. “The necessity in Venezuela continues to be at a scale that’s unbelievable.”
Tens of 1000’s of displaced survivors there want housing, clear water and sanitation, and ongoing medical consideration. Greater than six weeks later, individuals are nonetheless looking for lacking associates and family, usually with none official assist.
The profit live performance will happen Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. ET at Miami’s Kaseya Heart and might be proven dwell on Univision, ViX, WAPA and TelevisaUnivision radio stations, iHeartLatino and Venevision Play in Venezuela.
Viewers can donate by scanning on-screen QR codes, texting UNIDOS to 707070 or visiting univision.org throughout the broadcast.
Further music acts embrace Piso 21, Gente de Zona, Elena Rose, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Ricardo Montaner, Mau y Ricky, Olga Tañón and others. The performers span Latin genres, from salsa and reggaeton to pop, and be a part of from throughout Latin America, together with Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Dozens of Latin tv personalities, journalists and different celebrities will assist host the occasion, together with Don Francisco, longtime host of the TV present “ Sábado Gigante ” and former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres.
“Now we have all witnessed the devastation that has affected our communities in some unspecified time in the future — we’ve got seen it occur repeatedly in a lot of our international locations and throughout the globe,” stated Anthony, who additionally advocated and raised funds after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. “The necessity is immense.”
Some Colombian artists dedicated to the fundraiser nicely earlier than they knew an earthquake would quickly have an effect on their very own homeland. The Urbano Latino musician Feid, born in Medellín, has been reaching out to his greater than 14 million Instagram followers this week to assist assist teams there.
Latin music additionally shares a particular reference to Cali, Colombia, one of many hardest-hit cities and a globally acknowledged hub for Salsa music and dance.
“Unidos por Los Nuestros” is being organized by Cárdenas Advertising and marketing Community, Maestro Cares Basis, TelevisaUnivision and PIMIENTO Leisure.
Different musicians are additionally mobilizing reduction efforts. The Venezuelan band Rawayana based Fundación El After shortly following the catastrophe to assist impacted younger individuals. Shakira and different Colombian musicians, together with Karol G, Ryan Castro and J. Balvin, rallied assist for Colombia on Monday by way of social media. Metallica’s basis donated $100,000 for Venezuela to humanitarian group Direct Aid.
Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel will host a profit live performance for earthquake restoration Aug. 23 on the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, his final efficiency with the Los Angeles Philharmonic earlier than he joins the New York Philharmonic.
Proceeds from Dudamel’s “A Live performance for Venezuela” will profit restoration funds of the United Nations Growth Programme and the CAF Growth Financial institution of Latin America and the Caribbean. Beck, Natalia Lafourcade, and Carlos Vives will be a part of Dudamel.
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