{"id":342292,"date":"2013-09-16T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T02:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/haiti-the-music-of-nick-friends\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:10:19","slug":"haiti-the-music-of-nick-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/haiti-the-music-of-nick-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti: The music of Nick & Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Available from Living City Magazine Store<\/p><\/div>\n

Nick & Friends. <\/strong>Nick and his forty friends from around the world write songs with appealing rhythms, but meaningful and appealing lyrics as well. \u201cYou changed me when you came into my life, I only want to love you; you are my new beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Beginning<\/em> is the title of the CD and of the song by the same name that mixes soft melodies and rap written by Canadian, Nick Cianfarani. The idea began because, for Nick, music, friendship and relationships are a means of solidarity. The 2010 earthquake inHaiti was the reason for the CD. Hundreds of thousands died and millions were left homeless. It was a catastrophic event that only worsened the situation of one of the poorest countries in the world, where half of the people live on less than one dollar a day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not rich,\u201d says Nick \u201cand I don\u2019t have any financial resources, but I know how to play and write songs, and I belonged to Gen Rosso<\/a> Band for three years. Why not involve some of the musicians I\u2019ve known over the years, I thought.\u201d Nick & Friends compose their songs for free, and all of the profits are put into a project <\/a>promoted by the Focolare to build public housing inHaiti.<\/p>\n

Already in 2009 some friends of the Focolare recived some land and began to collect funds. The earthquake made the project take off and thanks to the support of Action for a United World<\/em> they were able to build 20 studio homes, a community centre, a kitchen and a small storage building. Some of the earthquake victims have found a home and today 17 extremely poor families live in the studio homes. 175 children are supported through a support-from-a-distance programme of the Movement, as well as three schools, and one kindergarten, totaling some 1000 children. It has contributed to helpingHaiti on its feet again.<\/p>\n

Continua la raccolta fondi, anche attraverso la vendita di A new Beginning<\/strong><\/em>, perch\u00e9 \u00e8 in progetto la riforestazione di un\u2019area con piante di mango, aranci, limoni e ananas che dar\u00e0 possibilit\u00e0 di impiego a molti lavoratori. \u201cAs soon as I mentioned the idea,\u201d Nice recounts, \u201ceveryone was in agreement: Giovanni from Italy, Maria and Brian from New York, Renan from Brazil, the Chinese Leonard, Jane, Adrian and Eva who are now Canadian citizens and belong to the quartet. The last song on the CD, Risalet Salan<\/em><\/strong>, is sung in Arabic by four musicians from the Jeel Band<\/em> inJordan: Yousef, Lith, Anwar and Amer who have become quite popular. Their video clip won a national award for the best song promoting peace.<\/p>\n

Link video<\/a> Gen Rosso Haiti<\/p>\n

For more information: livingcitymagazine<\/a><\/p>\n

nick.cianfarani @ focolare.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Citt\u00e0 Nuova online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forty artists and 18 songs to help finance a home construction project for 2010 earthquake victims from Haiti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}