Yale Strom featured in United Nations Concert for Pakistan line-up alongside Sting and Deepak ChopraOn the 12th of September Yale Strom will be performing at the General Assembly at the United Nations as part of the Concert for Pakistan .
The Concert for Pakistan has been organized to raise awareness and funds for the millions of Pakistanis who have been displaced during the war between the Pakistani military and the Taliban.
World-renowned artists Sting and Deepak Chopra are amongst other musicians to perform at this event.
Yale will join Sufi rock band Junoon's Salman Ahmad, described by the New York Times as "South Asia's answer to Santana". Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Salman Ahmad is one of South Asia's most influential cultural figures, as well as a musician, physician and United Nations goodwill ambassador.
The Concert for Pakistan hopes to echo the success of the Concert for Bangladesh (1971), a landmark concert organized to raise humanitarian aid in the aftermath of Bangladesh separating from Pakistan. Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr took part in that historic event as did Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and others.
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