World’s children raise their voices for childhood cancer in new single

Jan. 20, 2016 - PRLog -- Childhood Cancer International (CCI) is an umbrella organization currently representing 180 parent-ledorganisations in 90 countries including USA's American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO). On January 11th they will launch Child4Child.com, the first global initiative where childhood cancer organizations join forces to raise awareness. “Of the 250,000 children diagnosed with cancer each year, 90,000 of them will lose their lives to the disease,” says Ruth Hoffman, Director, ACCO.  The organization has now teamed up with some of the most talented singing kids on Youtube—many of them famous for their appearanceson talent shows such as America’s Got Talent, The Voice Kids Australia and Britain’s Got Talent. Their performances have together reached over 300 million views on YouTube.

The new song “We Are One” is written by internationally acclaimed composer Christophe Beck, most knownfor creating the score for Disney's smash hit, Frozen. “I’ve composed the scores to over a hundred films, including Hollywood blockbusters such as The Hangover, Ant-Man, and The Peanuts Movie. But this has by far been one of my most challenging assignments. Luckily I had my daughter Sophie by my side, a talented and precocious musician and songwriter herself, along with lyricist David Goldsmith, who wrote some beautiful words to inspire us. The three of us have been working on the song together and I am extraordinarily pleased with the results,” says Christophe Beck.

Children are invited to sing and record the chorus of the song on the child4child.com website starting January 11th. One month later on February 15th, (International Childhood Cancer Day), the song will be released on music streaming platforms such as Spotify and iTunes. The chorus of the song will contain all voices recorded on the website.

Ambassadors for the campaign are Alexa Curtis (winner of The Voice Kids Australia 2014, Livvy Stubenrauch (the voice of Anna in Disney’s Frozen), Robbie Firmin (Britain’s Got Talent), Aaralyn O’Neil (America’s Got Talent).

For more information please contact:Ruth Hoffman, Vice Chair, CCI & Executive Director, American Childhood Cancer Organization at: rhoffman@acco.org; Mobile: +1 202 262 9949Christy Perry, Director of Marketing & Social Media, American Childhood Cancer Organization at:cperry@acco.org; Mobile: +1 407 341 0313

http://www.acco.org/child4child