Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys & other huge celebs to join COVID-19 relief TV special

Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys & other huge celebs to join COVID-19 relief TV special
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'One World: Together at Home', the massive eight-hour COVID-19 relief event, has added a number of big celebrities to i...

'One World: Together at Home', the massive eight-hour COVID-19 relief event, has added a number of big celebrities to its line-up. Newly set to participate in the program are Alicia Keys, Amy Poehler, Awkwafina, Camila Cabello, Celine Dion, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lopez, LL Cool J, Lupita Nyong’o, Matthew McConaughey, Oprah Winfrey, Pharrell Williams, Sam Smith, Shawn Mendes, Taylor Swift, Usher and Victoria Beckham.

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Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert will host the major television event airing across NBC, ABC and CBS as well as a number of international networks.

The three will front 'One World: Together at Home' on Saturday April 18 between 8PM and 10PM. The show, which is curated by Lady Gaga, has been put together by social action platform Global Citizen and the World Health Organization.

It builds on a series of live online concerts, organized by Global Citizen, where stars such as OneRepublic, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and John Legend have performed at home.

The global entertainment special will celebrate the efforts of community health workers and promote the fight to end the global pandemic. It will feature multimillion-dollar pledges to the WHO’s Solidarity Response Fund.

It will also feature appearances by Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Burna Boy, Chris Martin, David Beckham, Eddie Vedder, Elton John, Idris and Sabrina Elba, J Balvin, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Kerry Washington, Lang Lang, Lizzo, Maluma, Paul McCartney, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Shah Rukh Khan, Stevie Wonder and friends of Sesame Street.

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The show is produced by The Voice and Songland executive producer Audrey Morrissey and her production company Live Animals in partnership with Global Citizen.

In addition to NBC, ABC and CBS, it will air on BBC One as well as Disney, NBC and ViacomCBS stations around the world. The full list of broadcasters includes Bravo, E!, MSNBC, NBCSN, NBC News, NBC News on YouTube, Peacock, Syfy, USA, ABC News, ABC News Live, Freeform, Nat Geo, Channel 5 in the UK, Network Ten in Australia, and Telefe in Argentina, BET and MTV globally across more than 180 countries, CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV2, Paramount Network, Pop, TV Land and VH1 in the US as well as Bell Media platforms in Canada, MultiChoice, and Ireland’s RTE.

It will also stream online via a number of platforms including China’s Alibaba, Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Facebook, Hulu, Instagram, LiveXLive, Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment Group, TIDAL, TuneIn, Twitch, Twitter, Yahoo and YouTube.

Money raised from the program will go to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, run by the UN Foundation, to support and equip health workers around the world, as well as to local charities that provide food, shelter, and healthcare to those in need.

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