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Activist Bono Is Honored
By Glenn Gamboa
STAFF WRITER
October 8, 2002
First king of the world, now man of the year.
Bono, U2's lead singer and one of the highest-profile humanitarians, was selected yesterday as the 2003 MusiCares Person of the Year. The Irish band's frontman will be honored at a Recording Academy fund-raiser at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan Feb. 21, as part of a monthlong celebration of the Grammys, which return to New York for the first time in five years. This comes just after Bono was named the most powerful person in the music business by Brit mag Q.
"Bono is a living symbol of what the MusiCares Foundation and the Recording Academy stand for - his musical accomplishments are matched only by his endeavors to effect positive change on the human condition worldwide," said Garth Fundis, newly named chairman of the academy. "We truly are privileged to be honoring this gifted and dedicated visionary."
Besides leading U2 to the top of the charts with the Grammy-winning "All That You Can't Leave Behind" CD, Bono has spent three years bringing media attention to poverty and AIDS in Africa, and supporting the "Drop the Debt" campaign to eliminate unpaid debts of the world's poorest countries.
Copyright ? 2002, Newsday, Inc.
Activist Bono Is Honored
By Glenn Gamboa
STAFF WRITER
October 8, 2002
First king of the world, now man of the year.
Bono, U2's lead singer and one of the highest-profile humanitarians, was selected yesterday as the 2003 MusiCares Person of the Year. The Irish band's frontman will be honored at a Recording Academy fund-raiser at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in Manhattan Feb. 21, as part of a monthlong celebration of the Grammys, which return to New York for the first time in five years. This comes just after Bono was named the most powerful person in the music business by Brit mag Q.
"Bono is a living symbol of what the MusiCares Foundation and the Recording Academy stand for - his musical accomplishments are matched only by his endeavors to effect positive change on the human condition worldwide," said Garth Fundis, newly named chairman of the academy. "We truly are privileged to be honoring this gifted and dedicated visionary."
Besides leading U2 to the top of the charts with the Grammy-winning "All That You Can't Leave Behind" CD, Bono has spent three years bringing media attention to poverty and AIDS in Africa, and supporting the "Drop the Debt" campaign to eliminate unpaid debts of the world's poorest countries.
Copyright ? 2002, Newsday, Inc.
