Focalistic, Musa Keys, Vinka, CKay, Shekhinah, Kamo Mphela, Joyous Celebration and extra embrace a musical motion to guard nature.
“Music for Wildlife”, a groundbreaking live performance collection that merges music and wildlife conservation, has launched on Hint World Community TV channels and streaming platforms. This initiative brings collectively Africa’s musical expertise to lift consciousness of and help for wildlife conservation in Africa. The collection is a robust celebration of tradition and conservation, aiming to achieve over 350 million viewers in 190 international locations to Africa’s superb music and wildlife.
Produced by Wild Africaa conservation NGO devoted to defending Africa’s wildlife and wild areas, in collaboration with OAS1Sonea trailblazing platform for music and immersive experiences, Music for Wildlife options over 150 musicians united by one pressing message: the necessity to shield Africa’s iconic wildlife and wild areas now. The collection is supported by the Worldwide Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), a worldwide non-profit lengthy lively all through Africa, serving to animals and other people thrive collectively.
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Africa, residence to 1 / 4 of the world’s biodiversity, faces monumental challenges, together with poaching, habitat loss, human-wildlife battle, the unlawful wildlife commerce and local weather change, all contributing to a drastic decline in wildlife populations. The WWF’s 2024 Residing Planet Index reviews that our wildlife populations have plunged by 76% during the last 50 years.
However there may be hope. Individuals are beginning to care extra deeply concerning the world round them – eager to make a distinction, to be heard. Music has a singular means to transcend our variations and join individuals. It’s a fashionable, emotive, and artistic manner to assist society study nature. From Cape City to Lagos, Harare to Windhoek, artists are donating their expertise and time to advocate towards the threats dealing with wildlife. Via highly effective performances and daring messages, these musicians are inspiring their followers to face with them, take motion, and reconnect with the wild areas in our nationwide parks.
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Airing weekly from July 2025 audiences will meet a few of Africa’s best musicians, together with chart-topping stars comparable to CKay, Focalistic, Musa Keys, Kamo Mphela, Vinka, Feli Nandi, Shekhinah, Azawi, Joyous Celebration, and Zakes Bantwini. Every 24-minute live performance will characteristic an enticing mix of recorded studio classes, and fascinating wildlife conservation content material.
Quotes:
South Africa’s Focalistic, one of many early pioneers of Amapiano, and a multi-award-winning rapper, singer-songwriter, and international famous person: “Africans ought to care about defending wildlife. Wildlife and nationwide parks create numerous jobs in Africa, comparable to attracting vacationers from internationally. Let’s use music and humanities, to guard our superb wildlife”.
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Lindelani Mkhize, Founding father of Joyous Celebration: “Music is our prayer, our energy, and our protest. With Joyous Celebration, we elevate our voices not simply in worship, however in a divine name to guard Africa’s majestic wildlife. That is our sacred obligation – to protect the wonder God entrusted to us.“
Vinka, multi-award-winning East African singer-songwriter and businesswoman: “Music for Wildlife has modified how I take into consideration myself in relation to the pure world on which all of us rely, and my function in shining a lightweight on the issues that threaten it. Music is probably the most highly effective connector on this planet, and the necessity to join with the challenges dealing with our wildlife, and the potential to guard them, is important”.
Ckay, Nigerian singer-songwriter: “We Nigerians love our music and tradition, however the place is the love for our wildlife? Due to habitat loss, poaching, deforestation and the unlawful bushmeat commerce, we danger dropping them endlessly. Let’s give our wildlife some house and a few love.”
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“African artists are very highly effective voices and might make the distinction to lift consciousness for higher wildlife safety in Africa. Hint is proud to open its international community to host the Music for Wildlife reveals that completely align with our values and initiatives,” says Olivier Laouchez, Co-founder and Govt Chairman of the Hint Group.
“Hint, a worldwide powerhouse in African music and media, unites with prime African artists and one of many world’s main conservation organizations in a groundbreaking partnership to amplify the decision for wildlife safety. This collaboration not solely drives international consciousness for Africa’s wildlife but additionally catapults African music and expertise to thousands and thousands worldwide.“, says Jandre Louw, Founder and CEO of OAS1SONE.
Peter Knights OBE, Wild Africa CEO, says, “Hint appeals to the youth, which is the way forward for Africa, and their ardour can be very important for Africa to preserve the world’s most unimaginable wildlife and the pure basis on which human life relies upon.”
In keeping with IFAW President and CEO Azzedine Downes, “IFAW has lengthy embraced music and the humanities as a approach to have fun wildlife and acknowledge the important significance of biodiversity throughout the globe. In recognizing its existence, we should additionally acknowledge its inherent vulnerability. We’re immensely proud to work alongside companions as a part of the ‘Music for Wildlife’ collection, as we attempt to attain a world the place each animals and other people thrive collectively.”
Pictures of artists, concert events and paintings could be downloaded right here.
Particulars on the place to look at the reveals on Hint channels around the globe: https://hint.plus.
