{"id":1276,"date":"2010-03-01T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2017-02-22T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:00:23","slug":"classical-stars-unite-for-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/classical-stars-unite-for-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical Stars Unite for Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/haitisongs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Classical music stars including PAUL POTTS, FARYL SMITH, BOND and BLAKE have teamed up to record a charity single to support aid efforts in Haiti.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A total of 23 artists, also including The Priests, All Angels and Camilla Kerslake, attended a recording session in London on Saturday (27Feb10) to add their vocals to a new version of The Prayer, originally a duet for Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the single, which is released on 14 March (10) will be handed to the Disasters Emergency Committee to help fund rescue work in Haiti, which was hit by a massive earthquake in January (10).<\/p>\n<p>Blake singer Humphrey Berney, says, &#8220;It&#8217;s the first time that a number of classical artists have come together, and it&#8217;s for an immensely important cause. It&#8217;s pretty exceptional circumstances to go into the studio with other artists who have collectively sold millions of albums. You&#8217;d think it would be a very high pressured environment but there&#8217;s an extremely relaxed and very friendly atmosphere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>News of the charity single comes after a Haiti fundraising gig in London on Thursday (25Feb10), featuring Paul Weller, Seasick Steve and KT Tunstall, raised <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical music stars including PAUL POTTS, FARYL SMITH, BOND and BLAKE have teamed up to record a charity single to support aid efforts in Haiti. A total of 23 artists, also including The Priests, All Angels and Camilla Kerslake, attended a recording session in London on Saturday (27Feb10) to add their vocals to a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[285,569,280,286,283,279,281,278,282,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}