Bay Area Grammy winner writes charity song with 900 contributors worldwide
When I attended the 2013 Grammy Awards, I met Laura Sullivan, a classical and new age music composer and recording artist, who, as it turned out, also lives right here in the Bay Area. The following year, she was nominated and won the Grammy Award for Best New Age album, beating out the likes of Brian Eno.
Sullivan spent the better part of 2014 working on a crowdsourcing music video project to her song, “We Are Love.” The project, called 900 Voices, incorporated video submissions from 938 people from throughout thee world, sung in 27 languages. The contributors, who were free to incorporate their personalities (and senses of humor), were not professional singers.
The resulting effort was produced by Sullivan and her husband, producer Eric Sullivan. The video features hundreds of faces from Australia, Brazil, Israel, Croatia, Korea, Kenya, India, all over the U.S., and elsewhere.
“People from all over the world and from every walk of life sent in incredible videos,” Sullivan said in a news release.
Half of all proceeds from the song will go to nonprofit Little Kids Rock. The organization partners with economically disadvantaged school districts to run music programs.
The video was posted yesterday at 900Voices.com.
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