100% of proceeds from the sale of the Hope For Haiti Now album and any of its individual live performance tracks will go to Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Oxfam America, Partners In Health, Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, and Yéle Haiti Foundation. 100% of proceeds from the sale of the individual studio track, “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour),” featuring Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge, and Rihanna, will benefit Partners In Health.

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Rolling Stones have more details on the Jay-Z & Bono track, which is produced on Swizz Beatz.

The track is called “Stranded” and will debut with a live performance on the Haiti telethon tomorrow.

Bono wrote the hook for “Stranded” — his new Haiti benefit single with Jay-Z and Rihanna, which is subtitled either “Haiti Mon Amour” or “Haiti Mi Amore” — while on the phone with producer Swizz Beatz. “The idea of the song is ‘We’re not gonna leave you stranded’ and that’s what the chorus is,” Swizz Beatz tells Rolling Stone. “So me and Bono started going back and forth with ideas, and he was like, ‘You know this word stranded keeps standing out to me’ and I asked him to sing it, and he put me on hold ’cause he’s recording the ideas on a Dictaphone — so he did it there and then on the phone.”

Swizz Beatz got the song started by sending simultaneous texts to Jay-Z and Bono — but when they both called, he accidentally hung up on Jay while trying to conference them. After three hours of phone tag, they all agreed to the project, which came together in geographically scattered sessions, with extra production work by the Edge. “I knew that Jay would be able to tell a story, and that Bono would be able to sing and bring it home. The last component that I added was Rihanna, and she’s kinda like the angel that’s on the track, softening it up and giving it that caring feeling, because this hook is so powerful.”

The song will debut with a live performance on Friday night’s multi-network telethon for Haiti, and will soon be released as a single on iTunes, according to Swizz Beatz.

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Bono has confirmed that U2, Jay-Z have teamed up with for a charity song for Haiti. The track is produced by Swizz Beatz.

According to Billboard, the trio

are among the latest celebrities to come together in an effort to raise money for Haiti following the devastating earthquake that struck a week ago. The three are joining forces for an as-yet-untitled Beatz-produced charity song that is expected to be sold on iTunes.

“Last night we wrote a song … Bono got a call from a producer, Swizz. He and Jay-Z wanted to do something for Haiti,” U2’s The Edge said on Saturday (Jan. 16) on the Dave Fanning radio show on 2FM. “So, Bono came up with the phrase on the phone, and last night we were here, we wrote a song - finished, recorded, and sent it back to them. So, that might be the next thing you hear from us!”

Swizz Beatz also confirmed the collaboration, posting on his official Twitter page over the weekend: “Me, Bono, Hova have something to say about Haiti. Stay tuned. I told you I was working on something amazing for Haiti. They need us!”

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During their performance of “Bloody Sunday” at the MTV EMA’s, U2 brought out Jay-Z.

“Turn on your radio, out in Berlin walls are falling, revolution is calling, out in Iran, an election a fix, out in Rwanda a genocide is sick. Turn on you’re radio, lets all harmonise to the people in power, hear an army cries. Buck Buck Buck be the sound of their tune, dont make have to make some mother-f*cking schools. Teach the youth of what lies ahead, teach the truth … cmon… get up stand up … stand up for you’re rights”

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Beyonce, Usher and Mary J Blige are some of the stars who will be leading Barack Obama’s presidential inaugration celebrations next week.

The R&B stars along with the likes of Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Shakira and Sheryl Crow will all perform at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial concert this coming Sunday.

Queen Latifah, Jamie Foxx and Denzel Washington will be among those giving historical readings at the event.

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