Tarja: veröffentlicht Charity-Single „Feliz Navidad“ zugunsten von Hurricaneopfern in der Karibik mit zahlreichen Gastkünstlern

Nur noch 20 Tage, dann ist Weihnachten. earMUSIC und Tarja sind stolz auf die Veröffentlichung einer ganz besonderen Version von „Feliz Navidad“: der Barbuda Relief And Recovery Charity Version.

Im September dieses Jahres wurde die karibische Insel Barbuda von dem Kategorie 5-Hurrikan Irma getroffen. Um zu überleben, mussten alle 1.800 Einwohner ihre Heimat verlassen und fliehen. Tarja, die den Großteil ihrer Gesangsaufnahmen des aktuellen Winteralbums “from Spirits and Ghosts (Score for a dark Christmas)” auf ebendieser Insel tätigte und eine enge persönliche Bindung zu diesem Ort hat, entschied sich, zu helfen.

Gemeinsam mit befreundeten Musikern wie Michael MonroeDoro PeschTony Kakko (Sonata Arctica), Elize Ryd (Amaranthe), Marko Saaresto (Poets Of The Fall), Timo Kotipelto (Stratovarius), Simone Simons (Epica), Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil), Joe Lynn TurnerFloor Jansen (Nightwish), Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) und Sharon Den Adel (Within Temptation), kreierte Tarja eine neue Version des Weihnachtsklassikers „Feliz Navidad„.

Alle Einnahmen an dieser Version kommen den Opfern des Hurrikans Irmas auf Barbuda zu gute. earMUSIC wird die gesammelten Spenden verdoppeln.

Tarja erklärt:
“The tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda has been devastated by Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm recorded in history to sustain over 200 km per hour winds for 24 hours.
Around 90% of the nation’s structures and vehicles have been destroyed. Irma passed over Barbuda early on Wednesday, 6th of September 2017, as a Category 5 hurricane. Barbuda is situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the state of Antigua and Barbuda. The island is now a near-deserted disaster zone. Almost all of its 1,500 residents were relocated to the sister island of Antigua. Critical facilities including roads and communications systems were ravaged, with the recovery effort set to take months or years.

I have had a home in Antigua, Caribbean for quite a few years now. I have friends there, but mainly, I have seen how the locals live and how unprepared they are for this magnitude of destruction.
I had just finished recording my winter album “from Spirits and Ghosts” in Antigua before the hurricane hit the Caribbean. I was already immersed in Christmas feelings at that time and immediately it came to my mind that the people of Barbuda will have a very dark Christmas this year and in the years to come. I wanted to find a way to give them hope for a brighter future.
So Christmas gave me the perfect excuse to call some dear friends and ask them to help me raise some funds for the people in Barbuda.

We are going to donate all incomes generated from the version of ‘Feliz Navidad’ we recorded, and my record company earMUSIC will add a similar amount on top of it for the charity.
When the time comes, I will personally make sure the donation is given to the right hands.

I thank you all my friends Michael, Doro, Tony, Elize, Marco, Timo, Simone, Cristina, Joe, Floor, Hansi and Sharon from the bottom of my heart. I am very glad and honoured that you could be a part of this. Your voices will give hope and they will be heard.

We need all of you to spread the word in order for fans and music lovers to get to know about this charity project. Is time to get together and to share our passion for this good cause. You can review the music style, production, sound or the performance of the ones involved, but this time the focus should be in a different place.

Dear fans, I really hope that together we can make a change. If you are not used to download music or if you don’t collect vinyls, it shouldn’t stop you from helping. Do it this time for the people in Barbuda. Please share this song with all your friends and relatives and ask them to do the same.
We wanna wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of our hearts.”

Feliz Navidad” ist ab dem 8. Dezember als Download und Stream erhältlich.
Eine ganz besondere, nummerierte und auf 1.000 Stück limitierte 7inch Vinyl-Single ist im offiziellen Webshop von Tarja erhältlich: https://tarja.tmstor.es

Als Vorgeschmack ihres Weihnachtsalbums “from Spirits and Ghosts (Score for a dark Christmas)”, hier das offizielle Video zu „O‘ Tannenbaum„:

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