Instead of squandering his earnings on cars and clothes, singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc wants to spend it on feeding the world.
The American star said the reason he signed a recording contract was to help people “make a difference”. Inspired by the philanthropic efforts of Sean Penn, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson and the NHS, Blacc, 35, said feeding people was a motivation to make more big hits.
In an interview with ES Magazine, to be published tomorrow, he said: “Listen, I get everything for free. I get a free car, I get free clothes. When I signed my recording contract, I said the only reason for doing this is so I can help people make a difference. I am very specific about the things I am going to do. I am passionate about creating a level playing field — adequate healthcare, shelter, food and nutrition, adequate education.”
He added: “I plan to hire master market gardeners, purchase plots of land, start distributing fresh vegetables free to everybody who wants them... and in order to make that happen? Well, I just have to write another million-selling song like Wake Me Up, don’t I?”
Blacc wrote his breakthrough hit I Need A Dollar after being made redundant by Ernst & Young in 2010.
Since then Blacc, who is signed to Simon Fuller’s Battersea-based management company XIX and lives in Los Angeles, has made the album Good Things and the song Wake Me Up, which became No1 in more than 20 countries and has been streamed more than 235 million times on Spotify.
Blacc has a 10-month-old daughter, Mandela, with his wife Maya Jupiter, a former Australian TV host.
Read the full interview in tomorrow’s ES Magazine
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