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The song is performed by will.i.am, Seal, Bono, Mary J. Blige, and Faith Hill, with David Foster appearing on piano. The song's live debut, at the Kennedy Center, was broadcast live on a special edition of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired on January 19, 2009, in honor of the next day's inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States. [1]
will.i.am was born as William James Adams Jr. [4] in Los Angeles, California, on March 15, 1975, the son of an African-American mother Debra (née Cain) [5] [6] and Jamaican father William James Adams Sr. [4] He has never met his father, [7] and was raised by his mother in the Estrada Courts housing projects in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, [8] where they were among the few ...
will.i.am Music Group is a vanity label founded by rapper and record producer will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas in 1998. The label serves as the distributor of releases for him and the group, as well as Fergie as a solo act, Macy Gray , Cheryl , and Sérgio Mendes .
American musician will.i.am has released four studio albums, one compilation, 59 singles (including 42 as a featured artist), nine promotional singles, and 58 music videos. will.i.am's debut album, Lost Change, was released in October 2001 on Atlantic Records. The album spawned one single, "I Am".
The video begins with a number of people dancing in a club. Two of them are showing entering the club toilets and engaging in sex. The scene cuts to will.i.am as a sperm, and continues by showing milestones up to and after his birth. It continues by detailing events in his childhood, before culminating when he is a full-grown adult.
will.i.am performs "Yes We Can" during the final day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.. Since the original posting on YouTube, the video has been re-posted a number of times by other users and as of February 23, 2008, the video had been watched a combined total of more than 22 million times among all of the postings. [5]
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
The song was co-written by Fernando Garibay, and was released in the UK on 25 August 2008. [2] It was believed that Nicole Scherzinger was originally due to feature on the track, as in the first verse, will.i.am raps "You want a good nigga to stickwitu", in reference to the Pussycat Dolls song " Stickwitu ".