Singer participated in a 100% female mission that went to space this Monday 14
The first mission of Blue Origin, a company of missiles Jeff Bezos, who took it about 11 minutes Katy Perry For space this Monday, 14. During the flight, the singer of successes like Smoking AND And He decided to sing another song: What to the wonderful worldEternal classic in the item of Louis Armstrong.
The American presenter Gayle KingOne of the six members of the flight crew revealed the information in an interview with News of the CBS. Although the other colleagues have suggested that Perry sang a success from his repertoire, he justified the choice.
“I have already sung this song in the past, but I would never have imagined that one day I would have sang a stretch in space,” he confessed. “But I think it’s not about me or to sing my songs. It concerns a collective energy there. It concerns us, it is a matter of making space for the women of the future, occupying space and feeling belonging. It is this wonderful world that we see out there and enjoying us,” said the artist.
What is the importance of “What to Wonderful World”?
Written by Bob Thiele AND George David Weiss, What to the wonderful world He was eternalized in the voice of Louis Armstrong, who published it in the world in a recording of August 16, 1967. The following year, the song already hit the top of the UK rankings. However, in the United States, it would have become a success only a few years later.
With the death of Armstrong in 1971, a rewriting in the studio of the previous year was widely used in television commercials and the music became unforgettable until it appeared on the soundtrack of Good morning, Vietnamwar movie Barry Levinson Published in 1987.
In the book What to the wonderful world: a life of recordingsReleased in 1995 by Oxford University Press, Thiele says that he and Weiss wrote music with the intention of being an antidote to the problems that the United States faced in the mid -1960s. It describes the period as an “deepening of the national trauma, with the murder of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, racial conflicts and turbulence in all places”.
Currently, decades after its release, the song continues to inspire new generations with its message that requires peace and harmony. Armstrong himself defined, according to the extract published on the Louis Armstrong House Museum website: “It is not the world that is so bad, but what we are doing with him. And all that I am saying is: see, what a wonderful world it would be if we had given him a chance”.
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