Kevin Mazur/WireImage; Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images Beyonce performs in New Orleans; Madonna performs in Houston.
Pop stars Beyoncé and Madonna acquire accumbent with activists Gloria Steinem and Bishop Desmond Tutu to ability out to an accepted billion humans this weekend with a bulletin of empowerment for women at a London account concert, Reuters reports.
Madonna will be a presenter and Beyoncé will headline "The Sound of Change Live" with Florence and the Machine and Ellie Goulding as allotment of a concert to be advertisement to added than 150 countries about the apple on June 1st. The concert will air on NBC in the U.S. on June 2nd.
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The four-hour concert is organized by the Chime for Change campagaign, started by Gucci, and seeks to accession money for education, bloom and amends projects benefitting women and girls in added than 70 countries about the world. Ticket-buyers are able to baddest what activity their admission will benefit, a aboriginal for such a venture, say concert organizers.
Madonna, who will not accomplish at Saturday's concert, will be a presenter alongside added musicians, actors, activists and filmmakers from about the globe.
"Sixty percent of the accouchement in the apple not in academy are girls," Madonna said. "Two-thirds of the world's benighted are women. I do not acquire this. We charge to change this and we will change this."
The concert will aswell serve as a belvedere to advertise evocative films and added belief showcasing women's issues from a all-around perspective.
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