Title: Tune Your World

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

my big passion is music. i like all kinds of music from everywhere, although brasil is best. even better is dancing!! with my feet in samba, my head is in the clouds…

my work: Calabash Music - a fair trade music company -
we've just launched a new campaign that we're calling 'Tune Your World' which allows fans to fund new recordings by musicians from around the world.


Do you believe we can change the world through music?

Tune Your World is changing the way the world finances music by  applying the principles of microfunding to the music industry. Already established as the leading international music download service and the world's first fair trade music company, we're using the power of online social networking to enable independent musicians from around the world to go straight to their fans for financing.

Our groundbreaking approach is the creation of an online marketplace for musicians and fans enabling peer-to-peer microfunding of new music projects.

With your help we're providing opportunities to revitalize the music industry in places where the music industry has never really worked very well. You can participate in a new cottage industry of micro-funded recordings produced in music capitals across the globe. 

It's that simple - Tune Your World.

We've designated the following musicians and music projects whose good works stand out:

1. Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars
The Refugee All Stars were formed by singer Reuben Koroma and guitarist Francis “Franco” Langba who were living in the Kalia refugee camp in Guinea with other Sierra Leoneans who had fled civil war back home. “I had nothing to do,” recalled Reuben. “In the morning, I would go to the center were all the refugees would just be talking. I saw that many people were not happy. I thought: If I start to play music here, people will really feel well.” A Canadian NGO provided the band with PA gear so they could tour to other camps and raise spirits there. The music was helping to build community in the camps, drawing people to meetings where they could discuss their circumstances and options.

2. Afrobeat Sudan Aid Project
ASAP is an all-star compilation of some the hottest overground and underground Afrobeat artists today, including Tony Allen (ft. Fela Kuti), Antibalas, and many others. 100% of the procedes from this recordings will benefit the people suffering in the Darfur region of Sudan.  We all hope that this project will also raise awareness about the dire situation in Darfur: by some estimates, over 400,000 people have died by dehydration, disease, and at the hands of the Janjaweed – armed horsemen supported by the government of Sudan.

3. Stop Excision Project
If you want to change the lives of women in Mali then buy all the songs from the remarkable Stop Excision collection. 100% of all proceeds from the sale of these downloads goes to the Stop Excision project helping to eliminate FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) in Mali. “We can't avoid lots of bad things,” sings Kandia Kouyate  in Bambara, “But we can avoid a lot of pain if we stop excising our daughters.” Stop Excision is a recording of Malian artists singing anti-excision and pro-women's rights songs.

4. Zola
Zola has emerged as the superstar of South African Kwaito. He grew up in Soweto in the ghetto called Zola. He currently produces a television program called 'the Ghetto Dream Maker', where he makes peoples dreams come through every week. Recently the show has moved across Africa traveling to Botswana, Nigeria, Lesotho, Namibia to make the dreams of Africa come true! Zola comments, “Kwaito kids are made from hunger, abuse, no father, violence, guns. Now as adults we must change the game for the better. Now we must change everything we are made from”.

5. The Mutubambile Orphan Choir
Featuring Zimbawean singer/songwriter Oliver Mtukudzi, these beautiful songs of the choir call attention to the national problem posed by the many orphans left by HIV & Aids every year. The collaboration resulted in a 12-song collection that will contribute to helping the orphans complete their education.

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