WHEN YOU ARE stationed in New York as your country’s permanent representative to the United Nations, you are given a certain platform.
However, some people feel that just talking isn’t enough to get their message across.
Some ambassadors have taken to singing in aid of a more peaceful world.
The results aren’t a million miles from when our own politicians had a go at the singing business.
In the video, Romanian Permanent Representative Simona-Mirela Miculescu is joined by Canadian Guillermo Rishchynski, Cape Verde’s Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima, Eduardo Ulibarri of Costa Rica, and Marlene Moses of Nauru.
Together, the five have created the greatest girl/boy group since Hearsay and have recorded 12 songs, including an original.
Obviously, they did it on their own time and not that of the UN. And we’re glad they did.
Other popular tracks that have been, ahem, reimagined include ABBA’s “I Have a Dream”, which has had a Brazilian machado rhythm added, “What a Wonderful World” and the leadoff single “Heal The World”.
The CD is available at the UN Bookstore, as well as on iTunes and Amazon.
Proceeds from the album will go to support youth assemblies organized annually at the UN
If you do just one thing today, watch this live version of “Heal The World” and watch the Romanian ambassador get really, really into it.
Miculescu has experience, though. She was once the lead singer of a pop-rock band called Symbiosis.
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