At midnight there was the premiere of the music video for the song “Wavin’ Flag” (originally by K’Naan), in which more than 50 talented young artists from Canada were involved – including Pierre from Simple Plan.
Check out the music video that includes the recorded song and also shots from the recording session:
The single is now available for online purchase at the Young Artists For Haiti official website. Please, go and help Haiti by buying this song:
Few days ago, we’ve informed that Pierre revealed on Twitter his participance on “a song for Haiti”. If you have been following our Twitter and Facebook updates, you already know that we had kind of a hunch that he had been talking about the so-called Young Artists For Haiti project. And now we can finally confirm we were right!
Pierre Bouvier from Simple Plan truly is one of more than 50 canadian artists, who have been asked to participate on the Young Artists For Haiti project, which gathered talented artists to re-record a song, originally by K’naan – Wavin’ Flag (you can listen to the original version here).
The names of all the participants should be released during this week, but thanks to the video from E-talk we are certain that besides Pierre, artists like Jacob Hoggard (Hedley), Nelly Furtado, Avril Lavigne, Lights or Justin Bieber also joined this project. Check out the E-talk video right here:
“With the wealth of young artists coming out of Canada, it was obvious that this is something we had to do,” says musical icon Bob Ezrin. “K’Naan’s lyrics in Wavin’ Flag embody the pain, passion and determination of the Haitian people and lend the hope of a brighter future. The response from the artists has been sensational, and I am so proud that together we may help to make a difference.”
“I’m honoured to have experienced the soulful energies of so many talented individuals who contributed their voices and expertise to ‘Wavin’ Flag’,” says K’naan. “The unity and spirit of everyone involved in the recording reminds us that we all share in the responsibility to help. We can’t let the situation in Haiti fall off the public’s agenda.”
The song and the video will both be released this Friday, March 12th, and all the proceeds will go to Free The Children, War Child Canada and World Vision Canada in support of their on-the-ground efforts in Haiti.
Last night, Pierre and Chuck posted a thanks to a special videobubble a videomessage to the fans, updating them on what they’ve been up to lately. You can check out the short “vlog” made by these two guys, who are currently still in LA working on the final material for the upcoming album, by clicking on the image below:
Today we have some pretty awesome Twitter news for you guys. The most important news of the day is probably the one about Pierre announcing on his Twitter that he is in the studio singing on a song for Haiti charity. There is currently no more info about that song but it means we should be able to check out a new song including Pierre’s vocals soon!
And speaking of Twitter, there are few new pictures from the SP guys – particularly from Pierre’s, Chuck’s, Sebastien’s and Patrick’s Twitter profiles. You can already check them out in our gallery (which is by the way being updated every day and we will soon have all the photos back):
In the last couple of months, Pierre and Chuck have spent most of the time in California writing songs for the upcoming Simple Plan album and updating us through their tweets on how amazing songs they have already written and letting us know that the new album is going to be “insane”. But of course in a place like California, you can’t just lock yourself up in your place, so naturally the guys have also been attending some events in LA.
Few months ago, particularly on November 11th 2009 Pierre and Chuck appeared on the launch of the new videogame called Assassin’s Creed II, which was hosted by the Maxim magazine and the french videogames publisher Ubisoft. Apart from SP, also lots of celebrities including Kristen Bell or Jessica Szohr attended the event. You can check out the photos of the guys in our gallery:
