Posted by Helen on: 09.06.2007 /
Maybe you heard that Luciano Pavarotti (famous opera singer) just died.
I heard about his humanitarian efforts today as people talked about his life on the radio: wow, I had no idea. From Italian tenor Pavarotti dies at 71
It was not just his annual extravaganza that saw Pavarotti involved in humanitarian work.
During the 1992-95 Bosnia war, he collected humanitarian aid along with U2 lead singer Bono, and after the war he financed and established the Pavarotti Music Center in the southern city of Mostar to offer Bosnia’s artists the opportunity to develop their skills.
He performed at benefit concerts to raise money for victims of tragedies such as an earthquake in December 1988 that killed 25,000 people in northern Armenia.
Not everything that article says is good. It seems like he had his better and his worse sides. (I think we all do) I was pleased to hear something good about him today which I didn’t even know.