Candice Anitra Launches “Today” Single to Benefit Haiti
The Brooklyn based “Left-of-Soul” singer/songwriter Candice Anitra will be releasing her second album, Big Tree on March 28th, 2012.
Candice Anitra has an important message with "Today."
In advance of her anticipated second album, Anitra has released the first single, “Today”. A motion-inducing dance track of smoldering intensity, the song and its equally gripping video are inspired by the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti in January, 2010.
“Today” marks this event’s two-year anniversary, addressing mother nature, emotion and our vulnerability. The music video debuted with a screening at a Love Haiti Benefit held on Thursday, January 12th, at DROM in the East Village.
Listeners can check out the song “Today” here, where any paid download of the track directly benefits Partners in Health, and the Global Syndicate’s “Shine a Light” Campaign.
Here’s more about “Today” from Anitra:
Soon after the earthquake shook Haiti on January 12, 2010, a photograph of a mountain of dead bodies gripped Candice Anitra. The shared humanity screamed, and raw emotion compelled Anitra to compose a song as a reminder that we are all connected and vulnerable, living on one shared earth, and responsible for supporting one another.
On the second anniversary of the devastation, and in advance of the release of Anitra’s sophomore album, Big Tree, Candice is releasing the track, “Today,” with a video for the song, in order to raise still-much-needed funds to improve lives in Haiti.
The video pairs images from Nadia Shira Cohen’s post-quake Haiti photo-essay, “Exodus” (Harper’s, May 2010), with footage of Candice’s performing the driving, melodic, pleading track, while editors Karim Lopez and Simon Doolittle have enhanced the piece with a retro-film aesthetic and a motion to the images that conveys the lyrics – “The way you shook this place, this rock in space.”
The song and video invoke a sense of urgency, and viewers are encouraged to name their price to download the song from candiceanitra.bandcamp.com The song is exclusively available on BandCamp only, from which the proceeds will benefit the people of Haiti, via Partners in Health’s construction of the 180,000 square foot, 320-bed Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital that will change the face of public health care in Haiti.
The Global Syndicate’s “Shine a Light” Campaign to provide solar-powered lights to subsistence wage earners – who otherwise pay up to 30% of their income for kerosene to see at night – improving education, productivity, and the environment, while reducing violence against women and children.
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