Roxette are lending their voices to a radio campaign in support of Childhood’s global commitment to prevent abuse and exploitation of children. The 30-second spots are airing across numerous SIRIUS XM radio channels. The campaign will be launched today in New York City by Queen Silvia of Sweden.
Among the participants: Music icons Frida and Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA, and Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson from Roxette; award-winning director Lasse Hallstrom; internationally acclaimed actresses Lena Olin and Isabella Rossellini; Henrik Lundqvist, All-Star goalie for the NHL’s New York Rangers; world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson, chef/owner of New York City’s forthcoming Red Rooster Harlem and winner of Top Chef Masters and professional golfer Jesper Parnevik.
“World Childhood Foundation” is dedicated to serving the most vulnerable children worldwide, especially those who are victims of sexual abuse and exploitation. Special attention is given to girls and young mothers. Since its inception, Childhood has granted almost 50 million US dollars to more than 500 projects worldwide, and currently supports over 115 programs in 16 countries including Belarus, Brazil, Estonia, Cambodia, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, Thailand, Germany, Ukraine and the United States.
Read more: WCF homepage | Press release
Update, October 28: Listen to Roxette’s spot as MP3!
Thanks to AbominableSnowman for the link.
UPDATE FROM PER GESSLE (October 8th):
The Roxette iPhone app called Roxette Lyrics Studio is not offical or approved by Roxette and will therefore be removed from iTunes.
Here is the message from Krystian Szczodrowski that we got the other day.
Good news for all Apple fans. Roxette APP is available on your iPhone. So don’t waste your time searching countless websites for Roxette ‘s lyrics. Roxette Lyrics Studio it’s official, authorized and licensed lyrics for all Roxette songs. Roxette Lyrics Studio features lyrics and videos of Roxette’s coolest tracks. You can learn every word of Roxette’s best songs and sing along with his videos on iPhone, iPod, iPad.
Functions:
• Viewing: watch YouTube videos with the Roxette Lyrics Studio
• Favorites: add songs to a list of favorites
• Searching: search the Roxette Lyrics Studio by song names or lyrics
• Sharing: share with friends via Facebook, e-mail and SMS
• Status Updates: publish up to 150 characters of a lyric as your status on Facebook or Twitter
• Application updates: ongoing updates of the artist’s catalog
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Russian art-photographer Ekaterina Belinskaya had the chance to shoot Roxette minutes before the Moscow concert. Check out the great result and more of her work at her website!
Photo used with kind permission of Ekaterina Belinskaya.
And there’s yet another Per interview from Russia! Some interesting bits:
– Roxette aims to tour in Europe, South America and Canada.
– They already recorded a dozen tracks and should be finished in a few weeks.
– Per thinks Marie recovered so well not least thanks to the love for music and desire to sing.
Source (in Russian): RBC daily