One World One Voice is a world music

World music

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 album intended to raise awareness of environmental

Environmentalism

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 issues, produced by Rupert Hine

Rupert Hine

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 in 1990. A video

Music video

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 of the entire album was produced for television

Television

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 together with a "Making of" documentary.

It was created as a “chain tape” started by Kevin Godley

Kevin Godley

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. The multitrack

Multitrack recording

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 tape was sent to various studios around the world where local artists added their contributions to it. Sections of the video were also filmed in the performers' home countries and edited together. Artists participating were Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa

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, Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

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, A Velha Guarda Da Portela

GRES Portela

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, Bagamoya Players, Cedric, The Chieftains

The Chieftains

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, Clannad

Clannad

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, Johnny Clegg

Johnny Clegg (musician)

Jonathan "Johnny" Clegg is a musician from South Africa, who has recorded and performed with his bands Juluka and Savuka. Sometimes called Le Zoulou Blanc , he is an important figure in South African popular music history, with songs that mix Zulu with English lyrics, and African with various...

 & Savuka

Savuka

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, Cy Curnin

Cy Curnin

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, Terence Trent D'Arby

Sananda Maitreya

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, Dred, Marc Ducret, Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

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, Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

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, Dave Gilmour, Egberto Gismonti

Egberto Gismonti

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, Kevin Godley, Eddie Grant

Eddy Grant

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, The Great Muungano Cultural Troupe, Richard Galliano

Richard Galliano

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, The Gipsy Kings, Rupert Hine, Chrissie Hynde

Chrissie Hynde

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, Howard Jones

Howard Jones (musician)

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, Salif Keita

Salif Keita

Salif Keïta is an internationally recognized afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali. He is unique not only because of his reputation as the Golden Voice of Africa, but because he has albinism and is a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita...

, The Kodo Drummers

Kodo (taiko group)

is a professional taiko drumming troupe. Based on Sado Island, Japan, they have had a role in popularizing taiko drumming, both in Japan and abroad...

, Helen Labarriere, Leningrad Symphony Orchestra

Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra

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 (Conductor Aleksandr Dmitriyev, Orchestration Simon Jeffes

Simon Jeffes

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), Ray Lema

Ray Lema

Raymond Lema A'nsi Nzinga, known as Ray Lema, is a Congolese musician born March 30, 1946 in Lufu-Toto, Bas-Congo Province.Lema is a pianist, guitarist, and songwriter. He worked for the National Ballet of Zaire, as it was then called, and in 1979 was invited to the United States by the...

, Roger Ludvigsen

Roger Ludvigsen

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, Maria McKee

Maria McKee

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, Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento

-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

, Native Land & Themba, New Frontier, New voices of freedom, Nu Sounds, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Remmy Ongala & The Super Matimala Orchestra

Remmy Ongala

Ramadhani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala was a Tanzanian guitarist and singer. Ongala was born in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo....

, Geoffrey Oryema

Geoffrey Oryema

Geoffrey Oryema is an internationally renowned Ugandan musician. In 1977, at the age of 24 and at the height of Idi Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border in the trunk of a car, after the death of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister, beginning a life...

, Hermeto Pascoal

Hermeto Pascoal

Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil. Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and...

, Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

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, Mari Boine Persen, Courtney Pine

Courtney Pine

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, Hossam Ramzy

Hossam Ramzy

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, Enrico Rava

Enrico Rava

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, Lou Reed

Lou Reed

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, Robbie Robertson

Robbie Robertson

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, Michael Rose & Junior, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

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, Clara Sandroni, Shakespear's Sister, Steve Stevens

Steve Stevens

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, Dave Stewart and The Spiritual Cowboys

Dave Stewart and The Spiritual Cowboys

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, Sting, Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer

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, Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt

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, Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega

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, Venice

Venice (band)

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, Christopher Warren-Green

Christopher Warren-Green

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, Adam Woods and Guo Yue

Guo Yue

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Track listing

1. Robbie Robertson - Chief Seattle Speaks
2. Kevin Godley, Sting, Courtney Pine, Gypsy Kings, Ark - (Instrumental)
3. Gypsy Kings, Nusrath Fateh Ali Khan - Este Mundo
4. Laurie Anderson & Pool - (Instrumental)
5. The Chieftains, Guo Yue, Bagamogyo Players - (Irish Istrumental)
6. Avelha Guarda Da Portela - Brasilian Party
7. Steven van Zandt - Foreplay To One Heart
8. Steven van Zandt, Peter Gabriel & Street-People - One Heart
9. Dave Stewart And The Spiritual Cowboys - One Music From Another
10. Junior, Steve Stevens - One World
11. Michael Rose, Steel Band - One World
12. Clannad, Chrissy Hynde, Geoffrey Oryema, Ri Na Eruinne, Mari Boine - Gula Gula
13. Nativ Land & Themba - Oh Ya
14. Milton Nascimento - De Fira
15. Peter Gabriel, Suzanne Vega, Geoffrey Oryema - One White Field
16. Great Muungano Cultural Troup - (Drum Instrumental)
17. Lou Reed, Richard Guilliano - One World, One Voice
18. Salif Keita - Nami Watah
19. Laurie Anderson - The Whale
20. Johnny Clegg & Savuka, Eddie Grant, Long Shawah - Free World
21. Christopher Warren-Greene, David Gilmour, Venice, Howard Jones, Bob Geldof, Terence Trent D'Arby - Meet Again (A Hole To Fill)
22. Kodo-Drummers & Leningrad Symphony Orchestra - Finale