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Jennifer Hudson performs “I’ll Fight” from RBG at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre
in Los Angeles. Photo by Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press
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By Nelson A. King
The United Nations says music,
talent and hope last weekend united
millions across the world online in
support of coronavirus (COVID-19)
workers.
The global body said the “One
World: Together At Home” event “saw
many of the biggest names in music
join the UN health agency and Global
Citizen movement in supporting
the millions of healthcare and other
front line workers who are helping
stave off the ravages of the coronavirus
pandemic.”
It said superstar Lady Gaga, promised
and delivered a “love letter to
the world,” featuring “an extraordinary
multi-generational line up of
performers,” including the Rolling
Stones, Stevie Wonder, Billie Eilish,
Paul McCartney, Beyoncé, John Legend,
Lizzo, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor
Swift and dozens of others, that
delivered eight hours of music interwoven
with testimony from workers
across the world, and the communities
that are supporting them in the
battle against COVID-19.
“We face a crisis unlike any
other. To overcome it, we must
unite”, said the UN Secretary-General
António Guterres, in a video message.
“Tonight, through the universal
language of music, we salute the
bravery and sacrifice of health heroes
and others. As we do so, let’s remember
the most vulnerable.”
Amidst the intimate and heartfelt
performances recorded by artists
mostly sheltering in place in their
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Alston Becket Cyrus’ “Wash Yuh
Hand” single cover.
By Nelson A. King
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) ravages
the world, and as the public is constantly
urged to exercise precautionary
measures, the “ABC of Calypso,” Alston
Becket Cyrus, says it’s timely to appropriately
re-work his 20-year-old track,
“Wash Yuh Hand.”
“I decided to try CD Baby after I was
persuaded to do so by a friend,” said the
Vincentian-born Becket in an exclusive
Caribbean Life interview over the week-
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By Nelson A. King
In the midst of the coronavirus
(COVID-19) pandemic, a veteran Grenadian
calypsonian in Brooklyn is inspiring
and providing much comfort to the
Caribbean community with the ballad,
“I Must Go On.”
Anthony Joseph, 50, who carries the
calypso sobriquet “The Blackman,” told
Caribbean Life, in an exclusive interview
over the weekend, that the song,
which was initially penned in 1996, as
“a heartfelt tribute” to his late mother,
is befitting in the extant global health
crisis.
“This ballad is well known in my
community from Carriacou (Grenada’s
larger sister isle), and it has been played
and performed over the last 23 years, for
those who have lost a loved one, to find
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