Throughout music's greatest evening, John Legend and the Recording Academy took time to honor victims of the present conflict in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to crowd in a pre-recorded message from Ukraine, the place he informed the gang the significance of music and ongoing help for Ukraine.
"The conflict does not allow us to select who survives and who stays in everlasting silence," Zelenskyy mentioned within the pre-taped message "Our musicians put on physique armor as an alternative of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals. Even to those that cannot hear them. However the music will break via anyway."
Through the message, 12-time Grammy award winner John Legend carried out "Free," accompanied by Siuzanna Iglidan, Mika Newton and Lyuba Yakimchuck, three Ukrainian artists.
Subsequent to Legend, Iglidan performed the bandura, a Ukrainian folks instrument thought of the nationwide musical instrument, CBS Denver reviews.
"We defend our freedom," Zelenskyy added. "To reside. To like. To sound. On our land, we're combating Russia which brings horrible silence with its bombs. Fill the silence together with your music. Fill it at present. Inform our story. Inform the reality concerning the conflict in your social networks and TV. However not silence."
Zelenskyy appeared on "Face the Nation" earlier Sunday, telling host Margaret Brennan that Russia's invasion, now in its sixth week, is about "the destruction and extermination" of the greater than 100 nationalities in his nation.
"Certainly, that is genocide — the elimination of the entire nation and the individuals," Zelenskyy mentioned.