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Connick to release Katrina song
18/08/2006 12:30 - (SA)
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| Harry Connick Jun arrives for the 60th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in June. (AP File) |
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New York - Harry Connick Jun was so moved by the devastation he witnessed in his Katrina-ravaged hometown of New Orleans, he wrote a song about it.
All These People, Connick's duet with gospel singer Kim Burrell, will be released on August 29, the one-year anniversary of Katrina's landfall.
All proceeds will go to the New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village, a rebuilding project formed by Connick and Branford Marsalis, Columbia Records announced on Wednesday.
Connick was left shaken during a trip to New Orleans in the days immediately after the storm.
"The song is all about the people who were left stranded at the convention centre," the 38-year-old singer said.
"I wrote four verses, each describing what I saw as I was taken through by a kind fellow I had met on the street earlier that day named Darryl."
Connick said Burrell was the "perfect" duet partner because she represented the hurricane victims.
"She, too, had been deeply affected by the hurricane, and was moved by the challenge of putting her feelings into the song," he said.
All These People is the first single off Connick's New Orleans big-band album Oh My Nola, set for release this autumn.
On the net:
www.harryconnickjr.com
www.habitat-nola.org
www.columbiarecords.com
- AP
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