Estelle Joins Forces With MTV, Body Shop To Help Increase AIDS Awareness
Newly York — Read Estelle's lips. Better so far, look at what the British people songstress has applied to them, because it's belike the Body Shop's Guarana Lip Butter. For every sales agreement of the limited edition, $8 lip balm, $5 will be donated to the Staying Alive Institution — a charitable partnership between the concatenation and MTV to growth AIDS awareness and breeding the populace over, altogether constituent of the "Strike Your Lips" military campaign.
It's an feat "shut to my heart," Estelle — world Health Organization has signed on to be a Staying Alive voice — explained sooner this month at a Manhattan Body Patronize (spell seated in a chair shaped like a giant pair of lips, natch). "I've seen people physically decease from Acquired immune deficiency syndrome." The outreach is specially vital now: According to the foundation's Web site, intimately one-half of all people infected with the disease last twelvemonth were 'tween the ages of 15 and 24.
"We just want you to be around until it's time," she said, citing that the about important variety of bar is in "giving them enough information to not be ashamed." Estelle too said the drive is as a good deal "for people going through the situation ... this keeps the support release."
Support is an operative word for the 27-year-old West Greater London indigene. Her smooth-as-butter (pardon the paronomasia) song, "American Male child," featuring Kanye West, has been dominating the #1 smirch on the British singles chart, and she's poised to garner precisely as much success on this english of the pool. Her newest single, "No Substitute Love life," boasts production by Wyclef Blue jean and already has a pursual in the clubs. "It's simple," she says of the cartroad. "Masses world Health Organization don't live it or know world Health Organization I am just sing along."
Both songs appear on her sophomore effort, Shine, which is scheduled to drop on April 29, and too includes cuts produced by Mark Ronson, Will.I.Am and John Caption — wHO signed Estelle to his label, HomeSchool Records.
Until and so, Estelle continues to spread her message, and stick around mortify more or less her revolt star. "I'm happy that people are giving me the clip of sidereal day," she said with a laughter.
