Ventriloquism grandmaster and America’s Got Talent Season 2 winner Terry Fator truly put his impressionism skills to the test for his latest song cover.
The singer, who has impersonated musicians like Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen in previous videos, did a marathon of imitations with his cover of “We Are The World,” a charity single from the 1980s that is the subject of a recent documentary.
What to know about “We Are The World”
In 1984, British music producer Bob Geldof brought together well-known Irish and British musical acts to form a supergroup called Band Aid, which recorded the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” which sold twelve million copies and raised over eight million pounds to benefit victims of famine in Ethiopia. The next year, the live concert series Live Aid raised more than ten times that amount.
Inspired by “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” calypso singer Harry Belafonte was inspired to form an American supergroup to raise money for Africa. Producers Geldof and Quincy Jones joined the project, and Belafonte asked singers Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie to write the song. Richie recruited Stevie Wonder to sing and Michael Jackson to write the lyrics, and eventually thirty-seven contributors lent their voices to the single, per Vulture.
Released in 1985, “We Are The World” sold over 20 million copies.
