Grammy Nominated Producer Rodney Jerkins Completes Final Mixes on All-Star Katrina Benefit CD featuring Stylish Remake Of Classic Sister Sledge Hit "We Are Family"

Rodney Jerkins announces All Star, Katrina account activity to be appear August 29, ancillary with the one year celebration of the devasting hurricane

-- Grammy-nominated mega ambassador RODNEY JERKINS is currently in the flat commutual final mixes on his All-Star Katrina account project, featuring a beautiful accommodate of the archetypal Sister Sledge hit “We Are Family,” with the aboriginal “reunited” associates of Sister Sledge assuming calm for the aboriginal time in 20 years, alongside such brilliant ability as Patti LaBelle, George Clinton, Ciara, Christina Milian, Chris Brown, Lyfe Jennings, Mary, Mary and Ray J, a allotment of others.

The “We Are Family” single, which will be appear to radio the third anniversary of June, will be included in a feature CD (title TBA), appear on August 29, to accompany with the one-year celebration of Hurricane Katrina. The CD, which will cover music recorded by assorted artists (to be announced), will be broadcast by Universal Music Group common this fall.

Proceeds from the individual and feature CD, which will be appear to radio and retail, will account victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, through activity ally including “Points Of Light Foundation”, “Communities In Schools”and the “U.S. Dream Academy.”

“My 'family' in the music business -- my accompany -- are aflame to be a allotment of the 'We Are Family' CD and DVD to accession funds and acquaintance for the displaced families still afflicted by Hurricane Katrina,” says Jerkins. “I am accustomed to accommodate my artistic talents to advice the volunteers who accommodate the amusing and animal casework bare on a circadian base to advice these families accomplish it day-to-day. They are heroes in action."

“Points Of Light”, the nation’s foremost advocate and bi-partisan articulation on volunteerism and association service, and its affiliates, represent added than 150,000 abiding volunteers in the arena alive anon with the displaced families of Hurricane Katrina. Funds from the gain of the auction of the “We Are Family” activity will go to the abetment of advance agencies absorption on animal and amusing services. This is the alone abatement activity with a focus on volunteerism.

Says Executive Producer of the project, Sherman Brown: "There is no added Hurricane Katrina abatement recording with the public-private affiliation reflected by this effort. It is our achievement to actualize the archetypal that will bear the media, funding, affiliation and addition bare to aid the vulnerable, blank and displaced. We cannot 'parachute' aid into these communities and apprehend activity to acknowledgment to normalcy. Rather, we have to empower those who are assuredly 'on the ground' and on the foreground curve with the assets bare to complete the assignment at hand. With this CD and DVD, we achievement to be a above agitator in authoritative this happen."

Corporate ally of the “We Are Family” activity cover Clear Channel, Wal-Mart and UPS Foundation.

Rodney Jerkins is broadly acclaimed as one of the greatest music producers of the endure two decades at the simple age of 28. He is on an absolute “go to” account of producers that platinum-selling artists such as Shakira, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys and Patti LaBelle seek out if they ambition a above hit. His plan has generated in balance of 140 actor in sales to date.

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