UNICEF's musical event: The #IMAGINE Project #EveryChildCounts

"Streamed live on 20 Nov 2014
20 November 2014 marks an important date on the global calendar: the 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child – the most widely ratified legal agreement to protect child rights. To mark this day and generate much needed awareness and funds, UNICEF is embarking on The #IMAGINE Project – one of the world’s largest-ever combined music recordings, to one of the world’s most loved songs, John Lennon’s Imagine.

Through a new App, music artists, celebrity influencers including athletes and actors, and people around the world will be able to record their contribution (vocals and video) which will be mixed together to create a million voices ‘world’ version of the song Imagine, produced by David Guetta for UNICEF, in support of children around the world.

2014 also marks two other UNICEF anniversaries: the 60th Anniversary of UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassadors (GWAs) Programme (past and present GWAs include Danny Kay, Audrey Hepburn, David Beckham, Katy Perry, amongst others) and the 35th Anniversary of the Music for UNICEF Concert – a huge gathering of music stars such as ABBA, Bee Gees, Olivia Newton-John and Rod Stewart, in 1979 to help raise awareness and funds for UNICEF.

Programme includes: 

• Performances by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors and influential singers representing regions from around the world: Angelique Kidjo; Daniela Mercury; Sonu Nigam; Laleh, performing ABBA’s ‘Chiquitita’ live, with Bjorn of ABBA joining onstage at the end; Kristian Kostov.

• Projected video performances by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors and influential singers representing regions from around the world, including Katy Perry, Nancy Ajram, Priyanka Chopra, Yuna Kim and others. [including Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel]

• Projected video segments from the 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert to acknowledge the 35th Anniversary of that historic concert.

• Grand finale of a performance of ‘Imagine’, led by the 15 year old Russian singer, Kristian Kostov, who is then joined by all artists on the main stage of the Hall where Yoko Ono sits at a white piano; all are accompanied by a 65 person children’s choir coming down the aisles from the back of the Hall to the stage"

(source - United Nations YouTube Channel)
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IMAGINE the world's largest ever sing along I UNICEF

source - http://imagine.unicef.org/en/  and AdamLambertHungary YouTube

Since the #Imagine Project launched there have been two versions of Imagine shown.  This is the first. 



Below is a full list of participants - taken from the Telegraph article mentioned below.


Regina Wilson – NYFD (US)
Angelique Kidjo - Singer (Benin)
Nicole Scherzinger - Singer (US)
Cody Simpson - Singer (Australia)
Sigrid Agren - Model (France)
Danny O’Donoghue - Singer (Ireland)
Roarke - Singer (US)
Idris Elba - Actor (UK)
Francois Alexander, Jenny Bapst Boussaut, Kate Naut, Samantha Rex - Singers (France & US)
Lance Bass - Singer (US)
Dash Mihok - Film/TV actor (US)
Priyanka Chopra - Actress/Singer (India)
Suki Waterhouse - Model (UK)
Craig David - Singer (UK)
Zelda Williams - Actress (US)
Joan Sebastian - Singer/Songwriter (Mexico)
Adam Lambert - Singer (US)
Nasri - Singer (Canada)
Maria Gabriela de Faria - Actress/Singer (Venezuela)
Ban Ki-Moon - UN Secretary General (South Korea)
Professional Performing Arts School Choir Members - School Choir (NYC Public School)
Family School Students - International Students (NYC based)
David Guetta - Music Producer/DJ (France)
Courtney Cox & daughter - Actress (US)
Doni & Akai Floyd - Mother & Daughter (US)
Mari Malek - DJ Stiletto/Activist (South Sudan)
David Arquette - Actor (US)
Isaiah Mustafa - Actor (US)
Scott Foley - Actor (US)
Sam Martin - Singer (US)
Bianca Yuzon - Singer (The Philippines)
Justin Bartha and baby Asa - Film/TV actor (US)
Eric Christian Olsen - Actor (US)
Antonella Barba - Singer (US)
Rumer Willis - Actress (US)
Katy Perry - Singer (US) - Perth
Seth Green - Actor (US)
Rebecca Da Costa - Actress/Model (Brazil)
Butch Vig - Music Producer (US)
Antonique Smith - Actress (US)
will.i.am - Musician/Entrepreneur (US)
Taye Diggs - Broadway/TV/Film actor (US)
Patricia Arquette & daughter Harlow Jane - Actress (US)
Ben Barnes - Actor (UK)
Rob Kazinsky - Actor (UK)
Tokio Hotel’s Bill Kaulitz - Singer (Germany)
Dianna Agron - Actress/Singer (US)
Tony Lake - Executive Director of UNICEF (US)
Ore & Neave Segal - Sons of Edo & Ayelet Segal (US/Israel)
Yuna Kim- Figure Skater (South Korea) - Seoul
Eden Espinosa - Broadway Actress/Singer (US)
Sunidhi Chauhan – Bollywood Singer (India)
Nina Dobrev - Actress (Bulgaria)
Julian Morris - Actor (UK)
Poe - Singer (US)
Sanaa Lathan - Actress (US)
Amy Brenneman - Actress (US)
Trevor Jackson - Singer & Actor (US)"

The Project has gained international media attention, with pieces in the Daily Mail and Telegraph in the UK, and tweets from the various Unicef

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11243506/A-listers-assemble-for-largest-charity-singalong-of-John-Lennons-Imagine.html

"Celebrities including Yoko Ono, Hugh Jackman and Kary Perry have launched what they hope will be the world’s largest charity singalong of John Lennon’s Imagine.
Singers from around the world will appear on the UNICEF single, launched at the United Nations General Assembly, in order to raise awareness of the “rights of children”.
Singers including Björn Ulvaeus from ABBA, will.i.am, Nicole Scherzinger, will take turns to sing lines, as members of the public are invited to contribute.
Fans, and those wanting to donate to the cause, will be asked to sing their own version of the song, in what organisers hope will form the largest choir across the world.
Actors Idris Elba, Rumer Willis, and Courtney Cox, will join in on the song, accompanied by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a children’s choir."


http://www.bravo.de/unicef-bill-kaulitz-katy-perry-und-co-singen-imagine-342073.html


"Es ist ein Star-Aufgebot der Superlative. Nach dem Anfang der Woche bereits die neue Band Aid-Version von "Do They Know It’s Christmas" erschienen ist, haben jetztMusiker wie Bill Kaulitz, Katy Perry, will.i.am, David Guetta und Co. den Song "Imagine" von John Lennon aufgenommen - natürlich auch für den guten Zweck! Das Projekt, das von UNICEF kreiert wurde, feiert den 25. Geburtstag der UN-Kinderrechtskonvention.
Sogar Hollywood-Stars wie Nina Dobrev, Courteney Cox, Rumer Willis, Bollywoodstar Priyanka Chopra oder Topmodel Suki Waterhouse sind dabei.
Und auch du kannst Teil des Videos werden! Mit der #IMAGINE-App nimmst du deine eigene Version des Klassikers auf. Das Beste: Jeder - wirklich jeder!!! - der das macht, wird so ein Part eines neuen Remix' von "Imagine", den David Guetta dann an Neujahr veröffentlicht.
Wahnsinn! Schau dir hier das tolle Video von UNICEF zu "Imagine" an!"