Global Citizen Festival Will Run the Gamut from Metallica to Mariah, With Priyanka Chopra Jonas Hosting Fall Event
12.08.2022 - 03:07
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe New York component of this fall’s consciousness-raising Global Citizen Festival will bring together artists as stylistically diverse as Mariah Carey, Metallica, Maneskin, Rosalia, Mickey Guyton, Charlie Puth and the Jonas Brothers — with a “bonus Jonas,” as it were, in the form of Priyanka Chopra Jonas, the activist who’ll host for the live audience in Central Park Sept. 24 as well as an ABC broadcast special the following night.The stars will shine as brightly far away from Manhattan, as well, in Accra, Ghana, where the other half of the event will go down — also on Sept.
24 — with a cast of performers that includes H.E.R., Usher, SZA, Tems, Stormzy, Gyakie, Sarkodie and Stonebwoy. The show is being touted as a 10th anniversary for Global Citizen gathering music stars from multiple genres for a free concert on Central Park’s Great Lawn.
But that’s not the only anniversary that’ll be celebrated by Global Citizen, which fights for the alleviation of multiple maladies that all come back in the end to the central cause of eradicating worldwide poverty.“We wanted to celebrate our 10th anniversary” in the event’s traditional home, Hugh Evans, Global Citizen’s co-founder and CEO, tells Variety. “But this year also marks the 20th anniversary of the African Union, as well as being Ghana’s 65th anniversary of its independence from Britain.
This is an important moment for pan-Africanism. You know, Ghana is a beacon for the West African region and the continent, because the first liberated African nation is seen as the leading country in Africa for both democracy and economic growth.There’s this beautiful simpleness of the journey of the transatlantic slave trade,
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