Obama Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo(VIDEO)

This was a great  concert honoring laureate U.S. President Barack Obama, it was  hosted by Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith & Featured performances by Natasha Bedingfield, Wyclef Jean, Westlife, Toby Keith, Donna Summer, Lang Lang, Amadou & Mariam, Luis Fonsi, Alexander Rybak & Esperanza Spalding.

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world, past winners have included Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Al Gore and other remarkable individuals and organizations. For the past fifteen years, the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony has been followed the next day by the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, a musical celebration honoring the laureate.

The concert was presented by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and was produced by IMG.

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Concert lineup included:

Will Smith – Two?time Academy Award® nominee Smith has enjoyed unprecedented success in a career encompassing films, television and multi-platinum records. Smith has made it a mission to help others through his humanitarian efforts. Among the issues most important to Smith are children’s education and outreach; in many and varied ways, Smith has long supported schools across the country. Smith has focused his efforts to make a difference through the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, which Smith and his wife founded in 1997. Also through the Family Foundation, Smith is part of the Kanimambo Foundation, a non?profit organization that implements innovative programs in Mozambique to improve the state of education, orphan care, and HIV/AIDS education and medical assistance.
Smith serves as an ambassador for Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Foundation, the African response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Last year, Smith became a National Board Member for Malaria No More, a foundation with a simple goal: to end malaria deaths everywhere. Smith has also long been active in the Make a Wish campaign, granting wishes and supporting the foundation?s efforts to better the lives of children with life?threatening conditions for over a decade and a half.
 

Jada Pinkett Smith – Pinkett Smith’s most recent film work includes voicing the role of Gloria in “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” and playing opposite Meg Ryan and Eva Mendes in the remake of “The Women” from writer?director Diane English. Pinkett Smith also teamed up with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle in “Reign Over Me” for Columbia Pictures. Jada is perhaps best known as the take charge Niobe in the hugely successful sequels “Matrix Reloaded” and “Matrix Revolutions.”
To further sharpen her skills as a producer, Jada Executive Produced the 2008 movie “The Secret Life of Bees” based on the bestselling novel by author Sue Monk Kidd. The film captured the hearts of many and won two NACCP Image awards along with two People’s Choice Awards.

Natasha Bedingfield – The United Kingdom’s biggest female pop star, Bedingfield has taken the United States by storm with the first British chart?topping hit by a female in almost 20 years. Vanity Fair singled her out as the spearhead of a new “Britpop” invasion, and she now has a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Natasha has sold more than 10 million singles and albums worldwide and has five top 10 U.K. singles. Her 2006 U.S. debut came with the No. 1 single, “These Words.” Later that year, “Unwritten” became the most played song on mainstream American radio. Natasha’s success continues with “Pocketful of Sunshine” which also has become a favorite on radio stations across the country.

Wyclef Jean – Wyclef is a multiple Grammy?Award winning songwriter, musician, producer, humanitarian, and Goodwill Ambassador to Haiti who effortlessly crosses genres, generations and geographic boundaries with his music and charitable efforts. Over the past two decades, Wyclef has garnered countless top 10 albums/singles for his collaborative and solo works while selling over 50 million albums worldwide. His musical journey began as a child in Haiti where he sang in his father?s church. After moving to the U.S. he formed The Tranzlator Crew, with his New Jersey classmates Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel which later became the Fugees. The Fugees sophomore album, 1996's The Score, became a full blown cultural phenomenon producing three hit singles and earning two Grammy?Awards. The Score went on to become the world?s #1 top selling hip-hop album of all time. In 1997, Wyclef embarked upon a successful solo career. Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival Featuring The Refugee All?Stars? earned him another Grammy nomination. Five other critically acclaimed albums followed.

Westlife – During their 11 years at the top of pop’s hierarchy, the band has sold over 40 million records globally. In the UK alone they have scored nine multi?platinum albums and a record breaking 14 No.1 hits (behind only Elvis and The Beatles). They have also picked up innumerable awards and appeared on hundreds of magazine covers around the world. They are the only recording artists to win the prestigious ‘Record of the Year’ an incredible four times (other top awards include two Brits and an MTV Europe Award). They are the third biggest selling pop band worldwide and the UK's biggest selling band of this decade.

Toby Keith – As he's done for the last sixteen years, Keith has gone to work playing the shows, writing the songs and recording the album that currently became “American Ride.” Like the hard working fans who buy his music and the soldiers he visits every year on his USO Tours, he takes his job seriously, gives it his all, gets up the next day and does it all over again. Of course, Toby Keith just happens to be doing it at the highest levels of entertainment industry success.
His 1993 debut was a No. 1 Billboard Heatseeker. His next four albums all reached at least top 10 on the Country Albums chart. Every album since, starting in 2001 with “Pull My Chain,” has reached No. 1. On the singles charts, he's scored a #1 hit every year since 1993. Across 44 single releases and 20 album releases including four hits collections, he?s only released six singles he didn't write. He?s sold more than 30 million albums, been among the top all-genre touring artists for a decade and his songs have been honored by BMI for 63 million broadcast performances and counting.

Luis Fonsi – Puerto Rican superstar Fonsi has had a decade long career, performing sell out shows and selling albums throughout Latin America and Europe; but it has been his seventh and most current release, “Palabras Del Silencio” that has already secured him a spot amongst the elite of Latin singers.
“Palabras Del Silencio” is a work of art for Fonsi; the singer / songwriter poured years of hard work and dedication to this album, co?writing and producing ever song on it. The results of his dedication have been evident; the first single off the album, “No Me Doy Por Vencido” maintained itself for an impressive 28 weeks at number one on Billboard’s “Hot Latin Songs” chart and was the only Spanish language song selected by iTunes as one of “The Best Songs of 2008”. Also, the album has appears in the Latin Pop Album Charts for the past 57 weeks and continue counting.

Donna Summer – Singer/songwriter/pop culture icon Summer rocketed to international superstardom in the mid-1970s, when her groundbreaking merger of R&B, soul, pop, funk, rock, disco and avant garde electronica catapulted underground dance music out of the clubs of Europe to the pinnacle of sales and radio charts around the world. Maintaining an unbroken string of hits throughout the 70s and 80s, most of which she wrote, Ms. Summer holds the record for most consecutive double albums to hit #1 on the Billboard charts (three) and is the first woman to have four #1 singles in a twelve month period, three as a solo artist and one as a duo with Barbra Streisand.

Alexander Rybak – Norwegian violinist and singer, Alexander Rybak won the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with a landslide victory. Alexander’s song Fairytale,” a song inspired by Norwegian folk music, was written as he walked the mountains of the Norwegian west coast and he performed it together with the modern folk dance company Frikar.
After Eurovision “Fairytale” became a major hit in Europe and was # 1 on almost every European I?tunes charts the following week. It also reached top 3 on the European Billboard chart, #1 in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Russia and #2 in Ireland, Finland and the Netherlands, he was also top 10 on the British charts. The second single from “Fairytales,” “Funny Little World,” entered the Norwegian charts at #2 only beaten by Fairytale at #1. This is the first time in history that a Norwegian artist has had the two top chart positions in Norway.

Lang Lang – Heralded as the hottest artist on the classical music planet by the New York Times, 27 year old Lang Lang continues to play sold out recitals and concerts in every major city in the world.