War Child is an international charity that works to protect children living in the world's most dangerous war zones including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda. There are over 300,000 children currently involved in wars around the world as soldiers, cooks, porters, spies and sex slaves. War Child aims to do something about this through its music projects and work around the world. War Child has a lot of support from a number of artists including Paul McCartney, Oasis, U2, David Bowie and the Killers. Such dedication has enabled War Child to carry out efforts around the world to help children who were robbed of their childhood and caught up in a war they had nothing to do with. War Child's work is truly amazing and has brought hope to effected children around the world.
War Child has an impressive history of music projects. The most recent of these projects was released in October of 2009. A team of some of Britain's most famous and talented artists came together last year on July 6th to record "I Got Soul", a new, re-written version of The Killers track "All These Things That I’ve Done," at Metropolis Studios in London. The artists are known collectively as The Young Soul Rebels, and is made up of the following people: N-Dubz, Pixie Lott, Tinchy Stryder, Frankmusik, V.V. Brown, Kid British, Chipmunk, Mpho, McLean, Ironik, Domino Go, Bashy, Egypt and the London Community Gospel Choir.
The track is based around the hook line "I Got Soul, But I’m Not A Soldier," and is aimed draw attention to the vital work War Child does with ex-child soldiers and those who suffer from the tragic effects of war around the world. One of the contributing artists, Frankmusik, says, "Warchild is a voice for those who didn't know they needed one."
The Young Soul Rebels project was ignited just hours after the close of the Brit Awards in February, at the War Child after-party. Coldplay, U2 and Take That joined The Killers on stage for a celebratory chorus, chanting ‘I got soul, but I’m not a solider’ to an audience of just 2,000. The next day, Bono told Radio One: “That chant, ‘I’ve got soul, but I’m not a soldier’, has a whole new meaning when there is a War Child banner behind your head...” From there, The Young Soul Rebels was formed. "I Got Soul," definitely sends a strong message and will hopefully help War Child in its efforts to protect the child victims of war.
Click here to view the official music video for "I Got Soul."
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Wow, that's crazy. Im so glad for the youth getting involved into music and the arts. I am a part of the Greater New Orleans Youth orchestra, and we teach young kids how to play music. Its so great to get these kids minds off of the war and bad things in their life and inspire them to do something amazing
ReplyDeleteSo have you ever seen the movie "Blood Diamond?" Well it is a prime example of how they drug these kids up to fight a war. It's really sad and I cry every single time I watch the movie. It's so real and it's sad that it's still going on today. I really hope that one day it comes to an end.
ReplyDeleteWho decided children were capable to fight their country's wars? It is horrible how these kids don't get to grow up with a "normal" childhood, but it's even worse that people sit around and let this happen. War Child is a great project and many like it should be begun.
ReplyDeleteDidnt even know War Child existed. But that was always the line that stuck out with me too in that Killers song. And I often wondered what they were referring to.
ReplyDeleteBut in the case of War Child, I'm happy to see this type of organization just got a killer fight song.
Every child deserves a childhood.
I had never heard of this organization before but it is great !! It has to continue to make the word spread !! There was a meeting before spring break that was held about invisible children and these students trying to collect money to build up schools that had been destroyed by the war in Uganda. During the video, almost all of the children they had followed in Uganda had a relative who had been taken by the rebels to serve for the war... mostly the brothers and sisters. One of them had seen his parents killed in front of him and his sister taken to be a child soldier. This is tragic and I am glad that artists have build up this project to help face this issue to put an end to it.
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