My brother (Jose, Pepo II, Pepito) was born on July 6, 1937.
Today, we celebrate your coming into this world!
You would have celebrated your 78th birthday.
To this day, I miss you. I miss you terribly.
I wish you could have been here and know what’s going on with my life.
I think you would have been happy for me.
Today, as every day since you passed, you are in the company of Mom & Dad. You are celebrating your special day with them .. and so many others of our family.
Say hello and hug them for me. Know that you are in my heart, in my mind, in my memories and my DNA.
You will always will be.
You ain’t heavy, you are my brother.
I love you as many grains of sand there are in all the beaches of the world.
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ThePianoGuys have teamed up with millions of YouTube fans to create a phenomenal success! The story about ThePianoGuys beginnings and success begins with Paul having an idea to start a YouTube Channel and then get a video to go viral to promote his piano store. He expresses his first thoughts with a question, “How are these Youtubers getting millions of subscribers?” he continues, “I came across a video with Jon and Steve, they had done a video, ‘Love Story Meets Viva La Vida’ and the music to it was just amazing. I was taken back by it, it was inspiring, it got in my mind.” Paul’s idea started to take off, “If these guys would keep putting their own classical music to it and mixing it with the pop, that would be such a huge Youtube channel!”
Paul was right and that started the wheels turning, miracles happening and five guys came together along the path to create an amazing journey with millions of viewers and subscribers joining the adventure on their ride to success. They love their viewers, they read their comments, they are inspired by them and they are what keep them going.
~~ThePianoGuys … before they were The Piano Guys~~
~~Uploaded on Apr 9, 2010~~
This is a great live version of Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson before they were ‘The Piano Guys’. It was this combination of Viva La Vida and Love Story that helped set the stage for great things to come. http://brideaccess.com
Why are there so many differences between human beings? There are characteristics that define us in different groups, I accept that but deep down, we are the same.
We are conceived the same way, we come into this way the same way. Anatomically speaking, we are the same. The biological processes that keep our metabolism going and the cellular functions going are the same. Our DNA is the same.
It’s only outside, physical attributes that make us different.
“We may have different religions, different languages, different color skin, but we all belong to one human race.”
Photo credit: Anonymous Awakening
Why can’t we all realize this and accept that we are the same and that we are ONE?
What touches one, touches all.
We ALL bleed RED!!
The Potential is there, so is the Spirit. All that is needed is the Spark.
“We Are the World” is a song and charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold at least 10 million copies worldwide.
Following Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” project in the UK, an idea for the creation of an American benefit single for African famine relief came from activist Harry Belafonte, who, along with fundraiser Ken Kragen, was instrumental in bringing the vision to reality. Several musicians were contacted by the pair, before Jackson and Richie were assigned the task of writing the song. The duo completed the writing of “We Are the World” seven weeks after the release of “Do They Know Its Christmas“, and one night before the song’s first recording session, on January 21, 1985. (The last recording session for the song was held on January 28, 1985). The historic event brought together some of the most famous artists in the music industry at the time.
The song was released on March 7, 1985, as the only single from the album. A worldwide commercial success, it topped music charts throughout the world and became the fastest-selling American pop single in history. The first ever single to be certified multi-platinum, “We Are the World” received a Quadruple Platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America.
~~U.S.A. For Africa~~
~We Are The World~
(1985 Official Video)
~~Published on Nov 14, 2012~~
“We Are the World” and raised over $63 million for humanitarian aid in Africa and the US. Following the devastation caused by the magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, a remake of the song by another all-star cast of singers was recorded on February 1, 2010. Entitled “We Are the World 25 for Haiti“, it was released as a single on February 12, 2010, and proceeds from the record aided survivors in the impoverished country.
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