It’s 2014 and yes, the World Cup is here! And now US pop music stars
Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull will join Brazilian singer Claudia Leitte on
the official World Cup anthem “We Are One,” FIFA announced in Rio on
Thursday.
“Only music and football can attract 80,000 people to a stadium, but a concert has just one artist, while football has 22,” said FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke at Brazil’s Maracana Stadium.
“We are here to break down
barriers and show that through sports and music we are one,” said
Pitbull, a Cuban-American rapper whose real name is Armando Christian
Perez, at the event held here five months before kickoff.
Leitte said the song would show off her country’s love affair with musical and sporting rhythm.
“Music is my passion and football is the passion of the Brazilian people,” the singer said.
“We want to show the passion and the culture — that’s what we have in this record. We are in the finishing phases.
Organizers hope the recording
enjoys similar success to Colombian star Shakira’s “Waka Waka”
signature tune from the last World Cup, held in South Africa in 2010.
That track was a huge success, notching up more than half a billion Youtube views
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