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SamaritanMag Spotlights Billy Talent's Charity Trust

Celebrating its 25th year together, Billy Talent has launched an innovative trust as a means of giving back to various organizations the band members wish to support.

SamaritanMag Spotlights Billy Talent's Charity Trust

By Aaron Brophy

After years of giving back, Canadian rock band Billy Talent has launched a charitable trust. The band, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, if you include their previous incarnation Pezz, announced the appropriately titled Billy Talent Charity Trust (BTCT) as a means to give back to various organizations they support, starting with a campaign to aid the MS Society of Canada.

The band — frontman Ben Kowalewicz, drummer Aaron Solowoniuk, guitarist Ian D’Sa, bassist Jonathan Gallant and drummer Jordan Hastings (who joined when Solonowiuk's multiple sclerosis preventing him from touring) — have teamed up with Funding Innovation to create Billy Talent Plaques, special, limited edition gold record plaques that include a live photo of the band, artwork of the band's various singles, as well as autographs from all the members. The framed awards will retail for $299 and are only available for two weeks. Proceeds will go towards the MS Society of Canada.

"From our start 25 years ago, it’s been important to our band to give back" – Continue reading Billy Talent Launches Charity Trust with Limited Edition Gold Plaques by Aaron Brophy on the Samaritanmag website


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Cher Said Iconic Hit ‘Believe’ Turning 25 ‘Pisses the F–k Out of Me’
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Cher Said Iconic Hit ‘Believe’ Turning 25 ‘Pisses the F–k Out of Me’

The 77-year-old icon is celebrating with a repackaged deluxe edition of the album that was nominated for best pop album and record of the year Grammys in 2000.

Cher has been turning back time for decades, defying the march of the calendar pages with an eternally youthful look and sound. But after more than six decades in the public eye, the ageless 77-year-old singer is having trouble wrapping her head around the fact that her iconic 1999 dance single “Believe” is turning 25 this year.

“It’s not that amazing, OK? Pisses me — it pisses the f–k out of me,” the singer told the Today Show‘s Harry Smith. “And you can’t put that out.” The dance pop hit that introduced the world to the wonders of AutoTune spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up three Grammy nominations, including best pop album for the LP of the same name, record of the year for the single and the singer’s only Grammy win to date, for best dance recording.

This article first appeared on Billboard U.S.

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