Stevie Wonder in Los Angeles, Elton John in Paris or Billie Eilish in New York: concerts will resonate around the world on Saturday, to raise awareness of the threats hanging over the planet, under the aegis of the NGO Global Citizen.
On the VIP side, the Prince Harry and Meghan are announced in Central Park.
To occupy all time zones, TV performances will also be broadcast, such as those of BTS from Seoul, Kylie Minogue and Måneskin (Eurovision winners) from London, Andrea Bocelli from Tuscany, Metallica from Louisville (United States), Green Day from Los Angeles or Ricky Martin from Las Vegas.
The services will be visible on Apple Music, Apple TV App, YouTube, Twitter, as well as via various broadcasters (TF1 / TMC in France, TV Azteca in Mexico, the BBC in the United Kingdom, ABC, ABC News Live, iHeartRadio, Hulu, The Roku Channel, FX and Time in the United States, etc.).
Behind this event is Global Citizen, NGO which describes itself as a “movement of engaged citizens“.
The “Global Citizen Live” (GCL) should allow, according to its organizers, to call “governments, corporations and philanthropists to work together to defend the planet and overcome poverty, focusing on the most pressing threats“.
20,000 spectators in Paris
Are targeted “climate change, vaccine equity and starvation“. “Faced with the climate emergency, the fight against inequalities and the post-Covid global recovery, we need to make a radical change in our lifestyles, rethink our relationship with nature as well as our ways of producing and consuming“, declares Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, in a press release.
In Paris, the event within the event is the service d’Elton John, who has maintained his presence and will then undergo hip surgery, which will result in new postponement of his farewell world tour.
Near 20,000 spectators are expected in Paris on the Champ-de-Mars, all tickets – free – have been distributed. To get them, all you had to do was register on the Global Citizen website and support the NGO’s action by signing petitions or sharing messages on social networks, for example.
All information about Global Citizen Live is available on the Internet and social networks (www.globalcitizen.org and @glblctzn on Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter and YouTube).
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