[HQ] USA for Africa - We are the World (Original 1985) | Michael Jackson Stevie Wonder...

www.usaforafrica.org RIP Ray Charles & Michael Jackson USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) was the name under which forty-seven predominantly US artists, led by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985. The song was a US and UK Number One for the collective in April of that year. This super group was inspired by Bob Geldof's Band Aid. The considerable profits from the enterprise went to the USA for Africa Foundation, which used them for the relief of famine and disease in Africa and specifically to 19841985 famine in Ethiopia; critics, however, claim that this money went directly to the (often military) governments of the affected countries rather than the people. USA for Africa also held a benefit event, Hands Across America, in which approximately seven million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States. Participants paid ten dollars to stand in line and the money raised was used to fight hunger and homelessness in Africa. The combined revenues raised from the sales of "We Are the World" and Hands Across America was almost $100 million. Chronological order of presentation * Lionel Richie (There comes a time, When we heed a certain call) * Lionel Richie & Stevie Wonder (when the world must come together as one) * Stevie Wonder (there are people dying) * Paul Simon (oh, and its time to lend a hand) * Paul Simon & Kenny Rogers (to life, the greatest ...