USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa), was the name under which forty-five predominantly U.S. artists, led by Quincy Jones, Harry Belafonte, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single ‘We Are the World’ in 1985. The song was a US and UK Number One for the collective in April of that year.The considerable profits from the enterprise went to the USA for Africa Foundation, which used them for the relief of famine and disease in Africa; critics, however, claim that this money went directly to the (often military) governments of the affected countries rather than the people.
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