Tomorrow-Bokra Charity Single & Music Video Premieres in Dubai

Tomorrow-Bokra Charity Single & Music Video Premieres in Dubai

Published November 14th, 2011 - 11:48 GMT

The much awaited charity single and music video Tomorrow-Bokra made its world premiere at an exclusive red carpet gala event on 11.11.11 at the One&Only The Palm, Dubai under the Royal Patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Women Establishment, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Presidential Affairs, UAE.

400 VIP guests – including leading Middle Eastern stars and international music artists – witnessed the launch of the highly anticipated musical collaboration, which features 24 Arab stars from 16 nations across the Middle East and North Africa, Akon, and a special introduction to the music video recorded by Shakira.

Legendary music producer Quincy Jones and Emirati social entrepreneur Badr Jafar, both Executive producers on the charity single created an Arabic re-adaptation of Jones’ Grammy-award winning song entitled ‘Tomorrow (A Better You, A Better Me)’. The song has been produced by Quincy Jones and Grammy-Award winning Moroccan producer RedOne, with Arabic lyrics by iconic singer Majida El Roumi and music re-adapted by the great Kadim Al Sahir. The music video was directed by Syrian-American director, Malek Akkad.

The evening was hosted by Quincy Jones and Badr Jafar, presented by popular MBC TV personality Raya Abi Rached and included a special introductory speech by Egyptian actress Yousra with spectacular live performances by four of the artists featured on the track – Waed from Saudi Arabia, Diana Karazon from Jordan, Fahad Al Kubaissi from Qatar and Asma Lmnwar from Morocco.

A dazzling firework display lit up the Palm Dubai’s skyline after the premiere of the music video at precisely 11:11pm. The event was also attended by artists who lent their voices to the single including Saber Rebai and Latifa (Tunisia), Marwan Khoury (Lebanon), Tamer Hosny (Egypt), Salah Zadjali (Oman), Ahmed Jumairi (Bahrain) and Hasna Zallagh (Morocco).

The ‘Tomorrow-Bokra’ song simultaneously premiered live around the world on the Tomorrow-Bokra YouTube channel (YouTube.com/tomorrowbokra) with over 600,000 views in less than 72 hours, and regionally on MBC. The song is set to air on regional and international channels next week.

Sony Music will release a compilation album entitled ‘BOKRA’ on November 20th which features the title charity single and for the first time brings together Arab and international artists in one album including Kadim Al Sahir, Marwan Khoury, Tamer Hosny, Michael Jackson, Usher and Shakira among others. Proceeds raised from the sale of this album, iTunes downloads, pledges and donations made via www.tomorrowbokra.org will be collected by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture in support of the United Nations World Food Program, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation and many other beneficiaries, to finance educational programs in music, arts and culture for children from across the Arab world.

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