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USA For Africa




USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) was the name under which forty-seven predominantly U.S. 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 1984–1985 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.

Performers


''Alphabetic order of singers''
*Dan Aykroyd (The only Canadian, and one of two non-US performers)
*Harry Belafonte
*Lindsey Buckingham
*Kim Carnes
*Ray Charles
*Bob Dylan
*Sheila E.
*Bob Geldof (The only member of Band Aid, only Irishman, and one of two non-US performers)
*Hall & Oates (Daryl Hall and John Oates)
*James Ingram
*Jackie Jackson
*Jermaine Jackson
*Marlon Jackson
*Michael Jackson
*LaToya Jackson
*Randy Jackson
*Tito Jackson
*Al Jarreau
*Waylon Jennings
*Billy Joel
*Cyndi Lauper
*Huey Lewis and the News (Sean Hopper, Bill Gibson, Johnny Colla, Mario Cipollina, and Chris Hayes)
*Kenny Loggins
*Bette Midler
*Willie Nelson
*Jeffrey Osborne
*David Paich (of Toto)
*Steve Perry
*The Pointer Sisters
*Steve Porcaro (of Toto)
*Lionel Richie
*Smokey Robinson
*Kenny Rogers
*Diana Ross
*Paul Simon
*Bruce Springsteen
*Tina Turner
*Dionne Warwick
*Stevie Wonder

''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 it’s time to lend a hand)
* Paul Simon & Kenny Rogers (to life, the greatest gift of all)
* Kenny Rogers (we can't go on, pretending day by day)
* James Ingram (that someone somewhere will soon make a change)
* Tina Turner (we are all a part of Gods great big family)
* Billy Joel (and the truth you know)
* Billy Joel & Tina Turner (love is all we need)
* Michael Jackson (We are the world we are the children we are the ones that make a brighter day so let's start giving)
* Diana Ross (there’s a choice we're making we're saving our own lives)
* Michael Jackson & Diana Ross (It’s true we make a better day just you and me)
* Dionne Warwick (Well, send them your heart so they'll know that someone cares and their)
* Dionne Warwick & Willie Nelson (lives will be stronger and free…)
* Willie Nelson (As God has shown us, by turning stone to bread)
* Al Jarreau (And so we all must lend a helping hand)
* Bruce Springsteen(We are the world we are the children)
* Kenny Loggins (We are the ones to make that make a brighter day so let's start giving)
* Steve Perry (whoah there’s a choice we’re making we're saving our own lives)
* Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) (it’s true we make a better day, just you and me)
* Michael Jackson (when you’re down and out there seems no hope at all)
* Huey Lewis (but if you just believe there's no way we can fall)
* Cyndi Lauper (well, well, well, well let’s realize that a change can only come)
* Kim Carnes (When we)
* Carnes, Lewis & Lauper (stand together as one)
* (1 1/2 Refrains ALL)
* Bob Dylan (there’s a choice we’re making we're saving our own lives it's true we make a better day just you and me)
* (1 Refrain ALL)
* Ray Charles (there’s a choice we’re making)
* Stevie Wonder & Bruce Springsteen (we are the world…)
* Stevie Wonder (there’s a choice we’re making)
* Refrains (Stevie Wonder & Bruce Springsteen)
* Bruce Springsteen (there’s a choice we’re making)
* (1 Refrain ALL)
* James Ingram (we are the world)
* Ray Charles (there’s a choice we’re making)
* Chorus (Fade) (ALL)

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