Ukraine president Zelensky appears in Grammys video message
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a video message on the Grammy Awards to ask for help in telling the story of Ukraine’s invasion by Russia.
In the course of the message that aired on the present Sunday, he likened the invasion to a lethal silence threatening to extinguish the goals and lives of the Ukrainian individuals, together with youngsters.
“Our musicians put on physique armour as a substitute of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals, even to those that cannot hear them,” he mentioned. “However the music will break via anyway.”
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The Recording Academy, with its accomplice World Citizen, previous to the ceremony highlighted a social media marketing campaign known as “Stand Up For Ukraine” to boost cash and help through the humanitarian disaster.
“Fill the silence together with your music. Fill it as we speak to inform our story. Inform the reality in regards to the battle in your social networks, on TV, help us in any method you possibly can any, however not silence. After which peace will come to all our cities,” Zelensky mentioned.
Following Zelensky’s message, John Legend carried out his track Free with Ukrainian musicians Siuzanna Iglidan and Mika Newton, and poet Lyuba Yakimchuk, as pictures from the battle had been proven on screens behind them.
