Twenty Ten In Africa - our World Cup song (not THE OFFICIAL FIFA WORLD CUP SONG) - but better :-)

VIDEO of a song to celebrate the 2010 World Cup in Africa. e-mail: hello@SongsFromAbove.com (c)2010, Songs From Above, LLC (ASCAP). I wrote a world cup song. I wrote it because when I was growing up, my country was about to explode into civil strife when Roger Milla jogged onto the football pitches in Italia (in June of 1990) and forever changed the world. For me, football and the World Cup have literally been life-saving. So I had a deep sense of gratitude when I learned that the Cup was coming to Africa. As a songwriter and record producer I decided to do what I could to 'give back' to football. When I began to write the song (in 2008, though the first draft was in 2002) I didn’t even know what theme song would be used for the cup, and being a 'nobody' really in the music industry, I felt it would be pointless trying to get my song to be the theme song. Then I heard about Shakira singing the theme song. I didn't feel that was too fair, because since this is Africa's first time ever to host the games, it would be best if African artists were announcing the games — which is what in effect, the theme song does. After that week in April 2010 (when news outlets first broke the story about a backlash to Shakira being chosen as singer for the theme song), I decided to promote my song more, to be a worthy alternative, or a co-theme song. So I spent my money (A LOT OF MY OWN MONEY) and also asked friends from across the globe (Persians, Africans, Asians, South Americans, North ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 3m 33s Date Found: Tue, Jun 08 2010 8:32 PM Category: Music Date Produced: Tue, Jun 08 2010 7:40 PM View Count: 0