Elton John’s annual AIDS Basis Oscars pre-party will return on March 12 with a headlining efficiency from Rina Sawayama. The Academy Awards viewing social gathering might be hosted by John and his husband, David Furnish, with particular appearances from Eric McCormack and MJ Rodriguez.
“Past excited to be acting at #EJAFOscars on March 12 in help of @EJAF,” Sawayama wrote on Twitter. “Based by my great buddy @EltonOfficial, they’re on an extremely vital mission to finish HIV stigma and inequalities around the globe, and to unfold extra love and compassion.”
In a separate assertion, John expressed his pleasure about internet hosting the annual occasion for its thirty first 12 months. “I’m overjoyed to be reuniting with previous and new pals on one in every of my favourite nights of the 12 months, particularly after lacking final 12 months’s viewing social gathering resulting from an unlucky conflict of schedules with my ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Street’ tour,” he shared.
“As all the time, I’m so appreciative of each attendee, donor and sponsor who continues to help the Basis’s work throughout the globe within the struggle to finish AIDS. With such significant generosity, we are able to make a more healthy and extra inclusive world.”
John and Sawayama’s friendship flourished naturally after he stumbled throughout her music and the 2 ultimately collaborated on her SAWAYAMA lower “Chosen Household.”
“He’s so hungry for brand spanking new music,” advised Shania Twain final 12 months for Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians sequence. “He tells me about new bands and artists I don’t learn about. He discovered my music, and he was supporting the singles earlier than the album [2020’s Sawayama] got here out. Then he needed to talk, and we FaceTimed. Weirdly, I wasn’t nervous in any respect. Being queer myself, having numerous queer pals, it felt like an extension of my pals, which is such a bizarre factor to say, as a result of I imply, he’s Elton.”
A couple of weeks after the Oscars, Sawayama will make an look as one in every of ten featured queer artists within the Excellent Music Artist class on the 2023 GLAAD Media Awards alongside Fletcher, Hayley Kiyoko, Betty Who, Orville Peck, Demi Lovato, and extra.
This kind of outward visibility rests on the root of the Elton John AIDS Basis. “Whereas we’ve seen large progress because the Basis’s inception 31 years in the past, the present, troubling state of the world brings threat of relapse, and there’s nonetheless a lot work forward,” Anne Aslett, CEO of Elton John AIDS Basis, shared in an announcement.
“By supporting our annual Elton John AIDS Basis Academy Awards Viewing Occasion, you might be instantly serving to us keep providers by offering entry, company, care, and justice to those that want it essentially the most – the LGBTQ+ group, individuals who promote intercourse or use medicine, and younger individuals who lack the data or company to guard themselves.”
Furnish, who serves as chairman of the inspiration, added: “Elton and I are wanting ahead to the Basis’s milestone occasion celebrating our achievements with so many supporters and allies, however extra importantly, elevating much-needed consciousness and funds for the progressive work that the Basis is doing to finish the AIDS epidemic. With rising new HIV infections and the tragic and pointless lack of lives in lots of components of the world, the help of our work is extra essential than ever.”