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    Akon and Chris Brown at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards

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    Actress/model Eva Pigford and actor Lance Gross attend Akon & Holly Robinson Peete’s Children’s Holiday Bowl at the Lucky Strike Lanes in Los Angeles

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    Akon arrives at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards

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    Akon Grammy Awards blurb

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    Akon shows Stacy his fancy watch made of diamonds

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    They come from his personal diamond mine

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    Akon goes all-white for the Grammy red carpet

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    Hip Hop artist Akon performs a crowd favorite at MTV's TRL

 

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February 2, 2010

Stars Gather To Cover ‘We Are The World’ For Haiti

The charity anthem “We Are the World” has been rerecorded by 80 artists who came together in the same Hollywood studio where the original was cut 25 years ago.

Pink, Natalie Cole, Kanye West, Jennifer Hudson, Celine Dion, Brian Wilson and others stood shoulder-to-shoulder on risers at Henson Recording studios Monday night to raise money for Haiti earthquake relief.

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