We Are The World 25 For Haiti

The recording of ‘We Are The World 25 For Haiti’ has the same enthusiasm, sense of purpose and generosity as the original recording 25 years ago.

The "We Are The World 25 For Haiti" was sung by a variety of today's signers and artists. The purpose of the song was the same of the " We Are the World - USA for Africa", to make money and send it to a needing place.

List of artists participating:

Soloists:

• Justin Bieber
• Nicole Scherzinger
• Jennifer Hudson
• Jennifer Nettles
• Josh Groban
• Tony Bennett
• Mary J. Blige
• Michael Jackson
• Janet Jackson
• Barbra Streisand
• Miley Cyrus
• Enrique Iglesias
• Jamie Foxx
• Wyclef Jean
• Adam Levine
• Pink
• BeBe Winans
• Usher
• Celine Dion
• Orianthi (on guitar)
• Fergie
• Nick Jonas
• Toni Braxton
• Mary Mary
• Isaac Slade
• Lil Wayne
• Carlos Santana (on guitar)
• Akon
• T-Pain
• LL Cool J (rap)
• Will.i.am (rap)
• Snoop Dogg (rap)
• Busta Rhymes (rap)
• Swizz Beatz (rap)
• Iyaz (rap)
• Nipsey Hussle (rap)
• Kanye West

List taken from Wikipedia

My Opinion on this "fund raising":

I think that this song is amazing, just as the last one. Just by having a lot of famous singers the song gets a new taste. The idea of separating parts of the lyrics (again) for specific artists was very well done. Some of the artists (in my opinion) shouldn't have the honor to sing this song, such as Justin Bieber. John Mayer deserved way more than Justin Bieber. The Rap part was innovating but not necessary, I mean: we can get the meaning of the song without the rap, and also in my opinion it was just created to put more artists in the list of soloists.

"We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

Cavaquinho

Cavaquinho is a brazilian instrument very used in Samba and Pagode genres. Cavaquinho is an instrument with 4 chords tuned in re-si-sol-re, re-si-sol-sol, mi-do#-la-la mi-re-si-sol and re-la-si-mi (a very unique combination used in Portugal). It has a very high pitched sound and that is it's beauty. The Cavaquinho is used in Mozambique, Portugal and Brazil.

My desire to learn the Cavaquinho is big. It is a very fun instrument because ou pick fast and the sound is "cool"

Example of a Ukulele:

Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole

Example of a Cavaquinho:

Cover of Fui - Exaltasamba

and if you want to see a cute boy playing the ukulele:

Im Yours cover - Jason Mraz

Axé

Axé is a brazilian music genre which is safe to say that it can entertain almost all Brazilians. Axé was created in Bahia in 1980, and it is very popular during the carnaval week. Today Axé music is attributed to all the music that come from Bahia.

The meaning of the word Axé, in the religion candomblé and umbanda, means positive energy. With media, Axé was quickly spread throughout Brazil. The most common way of "spreading" was the "Micaretas" ("shows" of axé music)

Popular Axé artists and one of their songs for example of axé are:

Claudia Leitte

Ivete Sangalo

I personally like axé, it is not my favorite genre of music but its nice to go to micaretas (which i went on the carnaval). i like the rhythms and the guitar playing behind the songs.

52nd Annual Grammy Awards

I was thinking about my first post and I decided that I would write about the most prestigious music award, Kind of a good way to start 2010's posts

I'll start by listing the winners form the 52nd grammy awards:
info by CNN Entertainment

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Album of the year

"I Am...Sasha Fierce," Beyoncé
"The E.N.D.," The Black Eyed Peas
"The Fame," Lady Gaga
"Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King," Dave Matthews Band
[WINNER] "Fearless," Taylor Swift *

Record of the year

"Halo," Beyoncé
"I Gotta Feeling," The Black Eyed Peas
[WINNER] "Use Somebody," Kings of Leon *
"Poker Face," Lady Gaga
"You Belong With Me," Taylor Swift

Song of the year

"Poker Face," Lady Gaga and RedOne, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
"Pretty Wings," Hod David and Musze, songwriters (Maxwell)
[WINNER] "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash and Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyoncé) *
"Use Somebody," Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill, Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings of Leon)
"You Belong With Me," Liz Rose and Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)

Best new artist
[WINNER] Zac Brown Band *
Keri HilsonMGMT
Silversun
Pickups
The Ting Tings

Best female pop vocal performance
"Hometown Glory," Adele
[WINNER] "Halo," Beyoncé *
"Hot N Cold," Katy Perry
"Sober," Pink
"You Belong With Me," Taylor Swift

Best rock album
"Black Ice," AC/DC
"Live from Madison Square Garden," Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
[WINNER] "21st Century Breakdown," Green Day *
"Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King," Dave Matthews Band
"No Line on the Horizon," U2

Best rap/sung collaboration
"Ego," Beyonce and Kanye West
"Knock You Down," Keri Hilson, Kanye West and Ne-Yo
[WINNER] "Run This Town," Jay-Z, Kanye West and Rihanna *
"I'm On a Boat," The Lonely Island and T-Pain
"Dead and Gone," T.I. and Justin Timberlake

Best country album
"The Foundation," Zac Brown Band
"Twang," George Strait
[WINNER] "Fearless," Taylor Swift *
"Defying Gravity," Keith Urban
"Call Me Crazy," Lee Ann Womack

Best comedy album
"Back From the Dead," Spinal Tap
[WINNER] "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All," Stephen Colbert *
"Internet Leaks," Weird Al Yankovich
"My Weakness is Strong," Patton Oswalt
"Suckin' It for the Holidays," Kathy Griffin

"Tall, Dark and Chicano," Geroge Lopez

For the full list go to 52nd Grammy Award Winners

My Opinion of the awards:

All of the awards were fair enough, but i have to disagree with the Best Rock Album. Green Day is a good band and all but there is no way they can win the award having the classic/legendary AC/DC competing with them with their new album "Black Ice" (FYI, AC/DC are currently on their tour "Black Ice").

Taylor and Beyoncé really deserve all the awards, they "dominated" 2009....

Comedy awards were useless in my opinion... but whatever...