Speaker 1: During the holidays. I have so much to be grateful for,
Speaker 1: my family, my friends, friends that have lasted a lifetime,
Speaker 1: the sunrise that greets me each day. Not that life
Speaker 1: doesn't dish out its fair share of challenges and oftentimes
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Speaker 1: for my life, I am able to make it through
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Speaker 1: this too. If not today because you're currently weathering a storm,
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Speaker 1: night or this podcast. Besides being entertaining, as I'll get out,
Speaker 1: I have ulterior motives for this platform, for this podcast,
Speaker 1: with Love Someone with Delilah. I want to inspire you.
Speaker 1: I want to spark your interest, in ignite your imagination.
Speaker 1: I want you to leave each episode thinking, hey, if
Speaker 1: they can do that, if they can do what they're doing,
Speaker 1: I could do something I love and maybe that would
Speaker 1: make a difference in someone's life. Maybe it would make
Speaker 1: a difference in my own life. Maybe it would make
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Speaker 1: a child. Today's guest is a singer, a songwriter, an activist,
Speaker 1: and a great role model. He was born Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins,
Speaker 1: the third in southern California. He grew up in Laguna Hills,
Speaker 1: and he began playing trumpet in the third grade. Music
Speaker 1: became such a huge part of his life, but he
Speaker 1: would go on to major in linguistics and psychology at
Speaker 1: the University of California and for a time worked for
Speaker 1: Ernst and Young before launching his solo music career as
Speaker 1: Alo Black in two thousand and three. That year, Alo
Speaker 1: released two EPs and signed to a record label. The
Speaker 1: rest is history, though not two ancient history. Alo Black
Speaker 1: is now an acclaimed Grammy nominated performer, known for major
Speaker 1: hits like I Need a Dollar, the Man and his
Speaker 1: mega hit wake Me Up with Avichi, which has received
Speaker 1: over four billion streams. Alo has also recorded his own
Speaker 1: version of wake Me Up, which is absolutely beautiful. What
Speaker 1: makes Alo different, or should I say One of the
Speaker 1: things that makes him so unique, so special is that
Speaker 1: he pledged early in his career to use his music
Speaker 1: for positive social transformation. With his new single Shine Aurora's Anthem,
Speaker 1: Alo is using his music to shine a light on
Speaker 1: critical humanitarian issues and to inspire others to simply do good.
Speaker 1: With role models such as Nelson Mandela, Martin, Luther King Junior,
Speaker 1: and with mentoring from Harry Belafonte, Alo has shaped his
Speaker 1: musical journey by following their legacies of courage and compassion.
Speaker 1: Through Shine Aurora's Anthem in honor of the Humanitarian supported
Speaker 1: by the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, a foundation that seeks to
Speaker 1: address on the ground challenges around the world, Alo aspires
Speaker 1: to ignite a movement among artists, encouraging them to embrace
Speaker 1: themes of hope and unity in their art. By promoting
Speaker 1: messages of resilience and empathy, He's reinforcing his belief that
Speaker 1: every individual has the power to make a difference and
Speaker 1: that music can be a catalyst for social progress. I
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Speaker 1: of the move, none of the cow with me. I
Speaker 1: love someone today is a extremely talented young man, Alo Black.
Speaker 2: Hello, Delilah, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: What was the name that your family gave you at birth?
Speaker 1: Can I ask that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my name is Nathaniel. So the family called Nathaniel.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just Nathaniel though. It's like three pages long.
Speaker 3: Oh right, it's a vestige of slavery. It's a colonial name.
Speaker 3: You know, the Europeans had ways of naming Africans. So
Speaker 3: Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins the third Wow.
Speaker 1: So this this, that's very colonial. You don't get much
Speaker 1: more colonial than Egbert for somebody who's got African descent, right, wow.
Speaker 1: So I have I have six children that are from Africa,
Speaker 1: and a lot of their names were characteristics, character traits.
Speaker 1: That's very common in Liberia to name children like patients
Speaker 1: or Justice or Mercy. So one of my daughters was
Speaker 1: Mercy and one is Blessing.
Speaker 3: That is beautiful. I think that's really special. You know,
Speaker 3: naming is a very important right of passage for parents,
Speaker 3: I think, and then renaming for an individual as they
Speaker 3: come of age.
Speaker 2: I think it's really important.
Speaker 3: I don't think it happens quite enough in our system,
Speaker 3: just because you know, the Western world very particular about
Speaker 3: categorizing and slotting everybody into their place, and they have
Speaker 3: to keep that place from birth till death. But we change,
Speaker 3: we transform, we grow, and we become butterflies from the
Speaker 3: caterpillars that we were before. And I think renaming is
Speaker 3: a beautiful tradition that I believe exists in multiple, you know,
Speaker 3: indigenous ethnicities around the world.
Speaker 1: Well, I like alo alo black. It sounds healthy. When
Speaker 1: I think of alo, I think of how good it
Speaker 1: is for you when you drink it or ingest it
Speaker 1: or put it on your skin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's sort of where I got the name. You know.
Speaker 3: I was a young budding artist coming up with new
Speaker 3: music and new concepts, and I felt like the music
Speaker 3: that I was making was was smooth and soothing like Alo,
Speaker 3: And so I've made a choice to give myself that
Speaker 3: stage name that Moniker.
Speaker 1: Is it a stage name because it kind of seems
Speaker 1: like it's you. That's I think of stage names as
Speaker 1: something that you transform into on stage right. But from
Speaker 1: everything I've read about you and everything I underst stand
Speaker 1: about your core mission to share goodness and truth and
Speaker 1: mercy and love with humanity, there you don't get more
Speaker 1: healing than that.
Speaker 3: Maybe I maybe I spoke it into the universe and
Speaker 3: it became more true as I grew into the name.
Speaker 1: I think there's sometimes things find us, the truth finds us,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing more healing for your soul. I mean,
Speaker 1: Alo is healing for your body and for your skin,
Speaker 1: but the love you're putting out there in your music
Speaker 1: that heals the soul.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. It's part of the mission.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: When I had the tremendous grace and opportunity to be
Speaker 3: a major recording artist with budgets and marketing and visibility,
Speaker 3: I made a promise to myself that I would use
Speaker 3: my voice for positive social change. And that's really how
Speaker 3: I've been dedicating the songs that I write and the
Speaker 3: way I show up in community.
Speaker 1: How much pushback have you gotten from the industry, from
Speaker 1: the machine, the music machine that wants to make hits.
Speaker 1: How much pushback have you got for standing your ground
Speaker 1: and saying, eh, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna do it
Speaker 1: this way, I'm gonna this is what the song is about,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm about. Like, have they been supportive
Speaker 1: mostly or has it been an updild battle.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that it's been supportive mostly, But I
Speaker 3: have a feeling that my engagement with the industry is
Speaker 3: somewhat like judo, where any force that is used against
Speaker 3: me becomes my weapon against the opponent.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good, And so.
Speaker 3: I still find ways for my messages to be heard.
Speaker 3: And I feel like I've had a lot of luck.
Speaker 1: That ain't luck. That is not luck. Luck as when
Speaker 1: you find a quarter on the ground.
Speaker 3: I guess, But you know, you just did a statistical
Speaker 3: analysis on the messages that we receive that are being
Speaker 3: shoved into our faces, into our ears from media across
Speaker 3: the board, from television, news, from film, and streaming content,
Speaker 3: from radio and.
Speaker 2: Music.
Speaker 3: The vast majority of it is not soothing, supportive psychologically.
Speaker 3: You know, we're dealing with a lot of distress, trauma, anxiety, depression, misogyny, violence,
Speaker 3: drug glorification, and I feel like there has to be
Speaker 3: some sort of balance to that. Someone somewhere has to
Speaker 3: be supporting it. Some entity has to be creating it,
Speaker 3: and other entities have to be sponsoring it, you know.
Speaker 2: And it's complicated and it's difficult.
Speaker 1: How many murders do kids witness by the age of ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in ways that would never happen in reality. And
Speaker 3: this is the issue, this confluence of art and commerce,
Speaker 3: where artists are saying, I'm just I'm just being an artist.
Speaker 3: I'm writing these stories, I'm reflecting reality. But then commerce
Speaker 3: comes and magnifies your reflection of reality in ways that
Speaker 3: are extremely biased and oversaturated. So it's at a certain
Speaker 3: point you may have been reflecting a reality, but now
Speaker 3: it's well distributed and completely overstated.
Speaker 1: And disgusting, destructive and breaks hearts and breaks minds and
Speaker 1: breaks children.
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 3: And so my thought is, you know, you mentioned the
Speaker 3: machine before, and I feel like.
Speaker 2: At a certain.
Speaker 3: Age I would have and did want to rage against
Speaker 3: the machine, but I realized that the machine understands rage,
Speaker 3: but the machine doesn't understand love, so we have to break.
Speaker 2: It with love.
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of you. It's not easy, and it's
Speaker 1: so easy to sell out, to get comfortable, and to
Speaker 1: sell out. I read this story when I was much,
Speaker 1: much younger, called the Great Seduction, and it's about how
Speaker 1: when you're young and you're talented, they give you the world.
Speaker 1: You know, first class tickets or private jets. They give
Speaker 1: you parties and access to all sorts of pleasures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they get you hooked, and then you're asked to compromise.
Speaker 1: And I love the fact that it appears you haven't
Speaker 1: been seduced.
Speaker 2: You know. I think what was my.
Speaker 3: Insulation, or what saved me, was the fact that I
Speaker 3: went to university, I worked in corporate America. I had
Speaker 3: an opportunity to grow, experience the world, develop a perspective,
Speaker 3: become an adult, become a man, an individual, to exist
Speaker 3: in the world, to have a place and a voice,
Speaker 3: and then to be given the megaphone without adulteration. So
Speaker 3: there were no other adults who could tell me what
Speaker 3: to do and how to be. If I had come
Speaker 3: into the music business as a major recording artist, at
Speaker 3: sixteen or below, any age of my brain being fully developed,
Speaker 3: the story may be different, but I was afforded the
Speaker 3: opportunity to develops as a citizen, a conscious citizen, and
Speaker 3: was able to make choices that I graduated into the
Speaker 3: major music recording industry with.
Speaker 1: I would love to have been a fly in a
Speaker 1: while when you were in corporate America.
Speaker 3: It was it was not the same as my life now,
Speaker 3: kind of boring, but it was good work. I was
Speaker 3: working in the health sector as a business consultant, helping
Speaker 3: children's hospitals improve care, whether we were developing their technology
Speaker 3: or helping them collect from insurance companies.
Speaker 1: So that's very noble and doesn't surprise me given what
Speaker 1: a caring person and how that seems to be the
Speaker 1: core of who you are, is caring for others that
Speaker 1: you work with children's hospitals, who have, by the way,
Speaker 1: saved my children's lives multiple times. So I love love
Speaker 1: the work that children's hospitals do, and I love the
Speaker 1: fact that they treat everybody, doesn't matter you know, your
Speaker 1: economic status. If you walk through the door in your
Speaker 1: child's in crisis, they're going to save their life. I
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 3: That's a big deal, and I'm glad that that our heroes,
Speaker 3: you know, operate from that perspective with the oath they take.
Speaker 2: There are so.
Speaker 3: Many other ways that the health system is broken, but
Speaker 3: the fact that they will receive and help the children
Speaker 3: is beautiful.
Speaker 1: Le's get back to talking about music, since that's what
Speaker 1: you're here for, and we're going to be celebrating this
Speaker 1: holiday season with new music from Alo Black. Tell me
Speaker 1: about your new project.
Speaker 3: Yes, the music is songs inspired by nonprofit organizations. The
Speaker 3: album is called Stand Together. It is an album that
Speaker 3: is supported by a wonderful organization that supports community change
Speaker 3: makers and some of the most amazing heroes in our communities.
Speaker 3: And I thought, why not do what Stand Together does
Speaker 3: as an organization through music? How can I use my
Speaker 3: voice to amplify these wonderful heroes.
Speaker 2: Within the communities.
Speaker 3: So a few of the organizations inspired these songs and
Speaker 3: some of the social missions and perspectives of the Stand
Speaker 3: Together group. One of the songs is called Breakthrough. The
Speaker 3: title comes from the name of the organization. It's an
Speaker 3: anti recidivism organization that works helping returning citizens find work,
Speaker 3: find education, opportunities, find housing, and offers them dignity in
Speaker 3: their return to society. Oftentimes, you know, when I visit
Speaker 3: prisons and juvenile halls, I recognize that the people behind bars,
Speaker 3: who at some point may get out, we consider them
Speaker 3: being released as a second chance at life.
Speaker 2: And I've always, after having multiple conversations and hearing stories,
Speaker 2: realize these folks never had a first chance. They come
Speaker 2: from the most broken circumstances you could imagine.
Speaker 1: Do you want to hear a scary statistic, Tell me
Speaker 1: eighty percent of boys who go through our foster care system,
Speaker 1: eighty percent of boys who are in foster care for
Speaker 1: eighteen months or longer will end up incarcerated by the
Speaker 1: age of twenty five. So, our foster care system, which
Speaker 1: currently has almost half a million children in its custody,
Speaker 1: doesn't create fully functioning adults. It creates prisoners. For an
Speaker 1: economic I believe in economic system.
Speaker 2: It's an economic system. It's a pipeline.
Speaker 1: It's a pipeline.
Speaker 3: Statistic I heard about children who don't learn to read
Speaker 3: by third grade have a higher chance of going into
Speaker 3: prison as well.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: And so when you look at the machinations of how
Speaker 3: lobbying and legislation work and funding education. You learn that
Speaker 3: sometimes certain unions like prison guards unions and sheriffs unions
Speaker 3: who control prisons are lobbying against education developed meant in
Speaker 3: order to build out this pipeline to conditioning system.
Speaker 1: How are you going to have a job if you're
Speaker 1: actually nurturing and loving and encouraging and educating children and
Speaker 1: giving them stability. Yeah, less than five percent of kids
Speaker 1: who are in foster care will ever have a forever family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are and systems and cycles of generational trauma
Speaker 3: that continue these and I think we have to look
Speaker 3: at what is the responsibility of government with regard to
Speaker 3: these cycles. Do we let them continue to play out
Speaker 3: or do we try to repair them? And you know
Speaker 3: whose responsibility is the repair? Is it our responsibility to
Speaker 3: taxpayers to continue to pay for prisons or should we
Speaker 3: be paying for the repair?
Speaker 1: Is it our response one's ability as taxpayers to continue
Speaker 1: to fund foster care that doesn't work?
Speaker 2: Understood? Why do these inadequacies persist.
Speaker 1: Because they're self governed, because there's no oversight, there is
Speaker 1: no holding accountable, there are no checks and balances, There
Speaker 1: is no one that holds that system or holds the
Speaker 1: prison system accountable. They're not accountable to anyone but themselves.
Speaker 3: My thought is, how do we develop a world, and
Speaker 3: certainly this country, a country that supports families such that
Speaker 3: the foster care system is dramatically reduced.
Speaker 1: What a beautiful idea. How do we support families? How
Speaker 1: do we support dads so that they know that they
Speaker 1: are vital and a necessary part of the equation. How
Speaker 1: do we break addictions? How do we heedal souls so
Speaker 1: that people aren't running to the pipe or the bottle
Speaker 1: to numb themselves. Do we do these things? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know either. I just know that love is
Speaker 2: part of the equation.
Speaker 1: It is the equation. It is the equation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, social justice shine is part of that. It
Speaker 3: was a special meeting that I had. A friend of
Speaker 3: mine invited me to the most amazing retreat in the Caribbean.
Speaker 3: It was Necker Island. This is Richard Branson's private island.
Speaker 3: And the attendees were executives from huge companies and scientists
Speaker 3: from the biggest and brightest research universities and some investors
Speaker 3: who you know have paved the way for lots of companies.
Speaker 3: And I had the opportunity to meet Nubar Afayen, who
Speaker 3: is the CEO of Flagship Pioneerings Health Solutions. I would
Speaker 3: say biotech company. They were the ones that created Maderna.
Speaker 3: And in conversation with him, he shared with me that
Speaker 3: he was a co founder of an organization called the
Speaker 3: Aurora Prize for Humanity. And as he was explaining to
Speaker 3: me the amazing work that they do to award humanitarians
Speaker 3: who are engaged in the most impossible mission to save
Speaker 3: lives and transform their countries or their communities, I was
Speaker 3: inspired to write a song to amplify that work, the
Speaker 3: work of the Aurora Prize, and I wrote Shine after
Speaker 3: learning of several of the recipients of the Aurora Prize.
Speaker 1: So tell me about some of the recipients that stand
Speaker 1: out in your heart.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, there are folks who in the Congo doctor
Speaker 3: Dennis mcquiga, who stood up a hospital to rescue victims
Speaker 3: of violence. There is constant war at the border between
Speaker 3: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. And this constant
Speaker 3: war is over land. And the land that is being
Speaker 3: fought for isn't necessarily the war that's happening is not
Speaker 3: necessarily a war between the citizens of the Congo or Rwanda.
Speaker 3: It is a war between the US, Russia and China
Speaker 3: for minerals that exist in this land, so our systems
Speaker 3: higher mercenary militaries to fight over land to keep the
Speaker 3: land in a vague question of ownership, so that mining
Speaker 3: can happen while there is no rightful owner to the land.
Speaker 2: If that makes any sense.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know all about it, okay.
Speaker 3: So and as we you know, I mean, we're here
Speaker 3: talking to one another on technology that requires the minerals
Speaker 3: that being mined. But the violence and the death and
Speaker 3: the destruction doesn't have to happen. But doctor Dennis mcquagey
Speaker 3: is helping to heal the people who are harmed during
Speaker 3: these conflicts, and in particular repairing women who have been
Speaker 3: damaged by sexual violence in these wars, in these conflicts.
Speaker 3: And in order for him to continue doing his work,
Speaker 3: you know, there's got to be some source of support.
Speaker 3: And Aurora Prize has awarded him. It's a significant purse
Speaker 3: in order to continue this work.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of the book God Sleeps in Rwanda?
Speaker 2: No, but I will finally read it.
Speaker 1: Read it. Two things I will I will ask you
Speaker 1: to explore. One is a movie called Sometimes in April,
Speaker 1: mm hmm. And one is a book that's called God
Speaker 1: Sleeps in Rwanda.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll find it.
Speaker 3: Thank you when you when you hear of the struggle
Speaker 3: that people are going through in so many other parts
Speaker 3: of the world, and not for any other reason than
Speaker 3: the read of the Western world, it just it tears
Speaker 3: me apart. It breaks my heart, and it makes me
Speaker 3: feel more compelled to be as vocal as and and
Speaker 3: loud and as much of an ally and a stand
Speaker 3: for them as possible. Had the opportunity to sing at
Speaker 3: the Legal Defense Fund gala recently, and in the audience
Speaker 3: was Tim Cook. And as we started dinner after some
Speaker 3: of the discussions that happened on stage, many people were
Speaker 3: walking up to Tim Cook to take a picture and.
Speaker 2: Get a moment with him.
Speaker 3: And I noticed the crowd and I thought, hmm, I
Speaker 3: should go stand in that crowd. I'm going to get
Speaker 3: close to Tim, but I'm not going to take a photo.
Speaker 3: I am going to ask for his help in pushing
Speaker 3: for a conversation with his competitors and colleagues in the
Speaker 3: technology world to be more vigilant about conflict minerals.
Speaker 2: I mean, who else can do it.
Speaker 3: It has to come down to either we as the consumers,
Speaker 3: deciding that we don't want products with blood in them.
Speaker 3: And so my job is to make sure more people know.
Speaker 3: It has to start.
Speaker 1: Somewhere, sing, sing, sing, right, because you have such a
Speaker 1: beautiful voice and such a clarity of understanding of how
Speaker 1: evil evil is. It doesn't care, Evil doesn't care, and
Speaker 1: it just breaks my heart.
Speaker 3: But you know we have we can, we can love
Speaker 3: will conquer evil. I really truly believe it.
Speaker 1: Is I do do.
Speaker 3: It takes all of all of our attention and concerted effort,
Speaker 3: and right now we're very distracted. So my job with
Speaker 3: this megaphone is to say, hey, guys, look over this way.
Speaker 1: I'm learning much about Alo Black, his music and his
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Speaker 3: Was My sole mission of getting up from my seat
Speaker 3: and my dinner was to go and make sure that
Speaker 3: he knew and I couldn't leave that room without doing it,
Speaker 3: it would not be from all of the things. So
Speaker 3: I was a mentee of Harry Belafonte, rest in peace,
Speaker 3: and from everything that I knew.
Speaker 1: I was a crush on Harry Belafonte. Okay, what a
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Speaker 3: Everything that I knew about him and what he stands
Speaker 3: for and how he operated compelled me to make that statement.
Speaker 3: And should I have the opportunity to speak to Satya
Speaker 3: Nadella or to you know, anyone else in these lofty positions,
Speaker 3: I'm going to state the case so that when they leave,
Speaker 3: they are present to their complicit behavior.
Speaker 2: And so that should they disregard it, that's on them.
Speaker 1: That's on them.
Speaker 2: But they are present to it.
Speaker 1: Amen, A voice of one crying in the desert, that's
Speaker 1: what you are.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not just one. I just I might be
Speaker 3: in a unique position. I'm not the only one, though
Speaker 3: there are others. Hopefully we can all sing a chorus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, keep shining and keep singing, and keep keep rattling,
Speaker 1: keep rattling the cage and speaking out and saying for me,
Speaker 1: it's kids. I mean, it breaks my heart what we're
Speaker 1: doing to the environment. It breaks my heart. What's happening
Speaker 1: to see mammals into sea creatures and to the bees.
Speaker 1: There's so much that breaks my heart. But my energy
Speaker 1: goes into the kids. My energy goes into the kids
Speaker 1: and letting them have a voice, and letting them have
Speaker 1: dignity and letting them have access to life in its fullest. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they deserve to have, you know, clean air,
Speaker 3: clean water, fresh organic produce.
Speaker 1: Love, safety, security, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Joy really, joy is a human right.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited about your music. I'm excited about the album.
Speaker 1: Tell me the name of the album and the project again.
Speaker 3: The name of the album is Stand Together, and one
Speaker 3: of the songs on the album is called Shine. It
Speaker 3: was written inspired by the Aurora Prize for Humanity, which
Speaker 3: is an organization that awards humanitarians who are facing mortal
Speaker 3: danger to transform their communities and their regions and their countries.
Speaker 3: A really noble organization helping really noble people.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Thank you for using your megaphone, your
Speaker 1: beautiful voice.
Speaker 2: Thank you for giving me the chance to share amplify.
Speaker 1: The album. Good Things came out in twenty eleven. The
Speaker 1: single I Need a Dollar used as a theme song
Speaker 1: to HBO's How to Make It in America. Several more
Speaker 1: singles on the album charted in the UK. Wake Me
Speaker 1: Up with Swedish performer Ravici reached number one in one
Speaker 1: hundred and three countries. Thank you, Alo for spending time
Speaker 1: with us today. If you didn't know Alo Black's name
Speaker 1: before today, you certainly knew his music and now no
Speaker 1: his heart, his compassion. He is committed to making a
Speaker 1: positive difference in the world. He just announced his new
Speaker 1: album Stand Together with a performance of the single Don't
Speaker 1: Go Alone on Good Morning America this past Friday, December thirteenth.
Speaker 1: The album comes out soon, so be watching and waiting
Speaker 1: for that happy news early in the coming year. By
Speaker 1: shining such a bright light and important social issues, Alo
Speaker 1: hopes to empower individuals and communities, reminding us all of
Speaker 1: our shared responsibility to uplift one another and contribute to
Speaker 1: a brighter future. That sounds familiar. To put it another way,
Speaker 1: love someone, God bless you, and I'll see you next time.
Speaker 1: Un Love someone with the lailah