A Concert Benefitting: “THE CHARLES & PHYLLIS NEWMAN FOUNDATION” and “THE SURVIVOR FOUNDATION”
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About Beyonce: I AM… SASHA FIERCE -- "When I started the record," says Beyoncé about her new double album I AM… SASHA FIERCE, "I knew that, artistically, I had to grow. And grow she did within all areas of her life especially her professional career. How many performers can add to their list of performances the “Presidential Inauguration”? Only great performers like Beyonce can claim such an accomplishment. Her God given talent transcends all aspects of capturing and entertaining the masses. With her newly leading lady role in the blockbuster film “Obsessed”, which topped the box office this weekend with gross sales in excess of 28 million dollars. Not to mention her previous roles in the hit films “Austin Powers”, “Dreamgirls” and “Pink Panther”.
Even though Beyonce has been very successful and very fortunate, she wants to be challenged, nervous and still be anxious about all the things that make her career exciting. One of 2008’s most anticipated new album releases, I AM… SASHA FIERCE is Beyoncé’s first new studio collection since her Grammy-winning multi-platinum-selling B’DAY debuted at #1 on charts around the world shortly after its international release on September 4, 2006 (in celebration of Beyoncé’s 25th birthday). "SASHA FIERCE is my alter ego," says Beyoncé, "and now she has a last name. I have someone else that takes over when it’s time for me to work and when I’m on stage, this alter ego that I’ve created that kind of protects me and who I really am. That’s why half the record, I AM…, is about who I am underneath all the makeup, underneath the lights, and underneath all the exciting star drama. And SASHA FIERCE is the fun, more sensual, more aggressive, more outspoken side and more glamorous side that comes out when I’m working and when I’m on the stage. The double album allows me to take more risks and really step out of myself, or shall I say, step more into myself, and reveal a side of me that people only know me see.“ The lead-in track on the SASHA FIERCE disc is "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)," Beyoncé’s scorching anthem of personal empowerment. "That song is all about: ’I’ve been with you all this time, you’re taking too long and now I’m looking hot and you see it and you gotta suffer because you shoulda put a ring on it,’" Beyoncé explains. "In my life, when I put on the stilettos, it’s all about being confident, sometimes overly confident, and hearing all the things that women need to hear to boost themselves and go out and to move on.“
About The Newman Foundation: The Newman Foundation supports programs of National and International significance that promote medical research and discovery in humans and animals that add to the quality of life and longevity of their lives.
MICAH - Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing. MICAH has built relationships, established themselves as an affordable housing resource, given decision-makers essential guideposts against which to make sound choices, built our credibility at the local level, and developed a history of affordable housing campaign victories.
MAZON - MAZON is a citizens’ movement, the outgrowth of tens of thousands of Americans who have stepped forward to solve one of the world’s most devastating – and most preventable – problems. With their support, MAZON works around the United States and around the globe, to bring critical relief to millions of hungry families. MAZON believes its dual purpose is to provide for those who are hungry today, as well as to address the systemic causes of hunger and poverty, both domestically and globally. Each year, MAZON grants over $3 million to more than 300 carefully screened hunger-relief agencies, including emergency food providers, food banks, multi-service organizations and advocacy groups worldwide that seek long-term solutions to the hunger problem.
About The Survivor Foundation: The Survivor Foundation helps to transform the lives of survivors of social, economic and catastrophic hardships by providing assistance,
education and support.