Playing For Change: Connecting the World, One Song at a Time

Friday December 17, 2010

From ABC News

Connecting the World, One Song at a Time
By: Olivia Katrandjian

“One love, one heart, let’s get together and feel all right.” Playing for Change, a multimedia music project, is the manifest expression Bob Marley’s famous lyrics.

Created in 2004, the project, which builds music education programs all over the world, is based on the belief that music has the unique ability to transcend social and geographic barriers.

And it does just that. “One Love” and “Stand by Me” were a few of the first songs Playing for Change’s creators, Mark Johnson and Enzo Buono, put together. Using a portable recording studio, they recorded musicians all over the world performing different interpretations of the same songs. Then they put them together to create one song with many voices. The resulting music is a blend of musical cultures and styles that is nothing short of inspirational.

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