Rocky Dawuni Joins Hillary Clinton And Others To Celebrate 'clean Cookstoves'
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Kenyan actress based in Hollywood, Lupita Nyongo will together with the director of the 12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen get an award on October 21. Ghanaian musician and social activist Rocky Dawuni joined Hillary Clinton and other dignitaries for the three-year anniversary celebration of the Global Alliance For Clean Cookstoves in New York City (NYC) late September of 2013. Clinton launched the Global Alliance at the Clinton Global Initiative under the auspices of the UN Foundation to promote the universal adoption of clean cooking solutions as a means to combat Household Air Pollution (HAP) and climate change.
He also hosted the debut Beach Ball Festival at Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica CA, where fans enjoyed performances by Michael Rose, Sly & Robbie, U-Roy and other Reggae greats.
The Beach Ball Festival was a fun new experience and a departure from closing out Levitt Pavilion MacArthur Park’s summer concert season with a sizzling headlining show earlier in August. Dawuni began the summer with a two-part European tour which stopped at the top Reggae, World and Jazz music festivals and garnered excellent reviews.
“We need to keep the Alliance going and growing,” said Secretary Clinton. “Find more partners; expand the market; put more stoves in the hands of consumers; save more lives. That’s what the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is all Dawuni is currently working on the follow up to his about, and that’s why I will continue to be an enthusiastic last album Hymns for the Rebel Soul. The new album supporter and partner.” is set to be released in 2014 and is as yet untitled. The album will feature his first foray Soca, "Reggae Soca Dawuni was appointed as one of the Ambassadors of the Party." The track is featured on Electronic Art's brand initiative in 2012. He joined Academy Award winning actor new video game "The Simm's: Island Paradise" and Julia Roberts, and chef Jose Andres as global champions. other exciting audible and mentally stimulating An estimated 4 million people die annually as a result of delights. exposure to smoke from open flames, majority of them being women and children--this has been the reason why Expect #The AfricanDream to hangout with Rocky Rocky has been committed to helping raise awareness of Dawuni very soon as we talk about his new album and this issue. work as a social activist. During the anniversary, Dawuni also met with the Chief Executive of the Global Alliance; Radha Murthiah, President of Guatemala; Otto Perez Molina, former president of Ireland; Mary Robinson and CEO of UN Foundation; Cathy Calvin and other distinguished members of the leadership of the Alliance at the George Soros Foundation.
On the musical front, Rocky Dawuni performed at Playing for Change annual fundraiser prior to leaving for NYC alongside blues legend Keb Mo, John Densmore of The Doors and Playing for Change Band. The event held at the World Famous Whisky A Go Go in Hollywood, California (CA), helps raise funds for the building of music schools around the world.
The two are expected to receive the Hollywood Breakout Director Award and New Hollywood Award, respectively at the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards.
Previous recipients of the New Hollywood Award include Robert Pattinson, Gabourey Sidibe, Jennifer Lawrence, Felicity Jones and Quvenzhane Wallis. According to the Hollywood Reporter, founder and executive director Carlos de Abreu said, “We look forward to celebrating this exceptionally talented director and actress for their outstanding work and creative vision."
The Shuga actress plays Patsey -- a slave who receives particularly unkind attention from her master (Michael Fasbender). The movie is about a true story of a free black man from the north who was deceived and sold into slavery in the south in mid-19th century America. Lupita stars in the movie alongside Hollywood bigwigs like Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre Woodard and Brad Pitt.
Source:allafrica.com
Source: Oral Ofori