“The war. What’s more opposite to music?” asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky when he appeared on the Grammys telecast via video.
Zelensky went on to an extended explanation of how war silences music and music can end war.“Our musicians wear body armor instead of tuxedos.
They sing to the wounded. In hospitals. Even to those who can’t hear them. But the music will break through anyway,” he said.“Anyway, we defend out freedom.
To live. To love. To sound.”“On our land, we are fighting Russia which brings horrible silence with its bombs. The dead silence,” he said before urging, “Fill the silence with your music.
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