Thursday, September 07, 2006

Should I Save For An Airline ticket too?

Rain goes on World Tour with the organizers who put together Madonna and Britney Spears' concerts.

Singer Rain will hold his World Tour in 12 different countries, which will total 35 different concerts, with a team or concert organizers who have helped organized the concerts of famous pop stars Modonna and Britney Spears.

Rain will release his 4th album next month and in the coming December he will start off his World Tour in Las Vegas, US and will go through Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, China, and Korea for his second world tour titled "Rain's Coming". This is the largest world concert given by a Korean artist, and for Rain the staff that will be working for his tour are people who are best at their jobs in the world.

Jamie King, who is famous for working on Madonna's recent "Confessions Tour" and working with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera's choreography, is the man in charge as the Stage Director. Jamie King used to be a dancer for Michael Jackson. King choreographed Ricki Martin's "Livin La Vi Da Loca" the 1999 World tour, Britney Spears's "Oops, I did it again" 2000 World tour. Christina Agulera's "Stripped Tour", and he won the MTV best choreography award in 2001 for Madonna's "Drowned World tour".

Jamie King and Rain met in July in the US and they exchanged their ideas about the tour, and it seemed that Jamie King already knew of Rain's famous in the Asian countries and even in the US.

In addition to Jamie King, the staffing for Rain's World Tour is phenomenal.

Dago Gonzales, who is famous for his work with Britney Spears, Madonna, and Usher as a Video Director, will be working as the Video Director at Rain's World Tour.

In addition, Roy Bennet, who has worked on the MTV VMA as the lighting director, will be in charge as the lighting director at Rain's World tour.

But before the 5 months of his World Tour starts, Rain is presenting a showcase concert for free to his fans.

He is inviting about 40,000 fans to his showcase for his 4th album on October 13th at the Jam Shil Olympic Stadium. They assume that about 10,000 fans will be foreign fans from outside of Korea.

The showcase is planned to be operated the same was as his concerts for the World Tour, although the fee to enter the showcase concert is free, they will be collecting donations. The donations collected during the showcase will be given to the Art Center for the Handicapped "Beautiful Lamp". The donation will be used for the building of the center and providing support for education, culture, and religion programs that will be set up for the handicapped.

There will be donation boxes through the stadium for the attending fans to give donations, and when the showcase is aired through the TV, more donations can be given through the ARS system.

It has also been said that, Rain and his organizers are talking with the TV stations in each of the 12 countries included in the World tour to find a way to collect donations in order to give to the needy children.

StarM, which is the main organizing company for Rain's World Tour, the company's representative Lee In Gwang said "The collection of donations for the World Tour in order to raise more public awareness was an idea that Rain came up with by himself. Other than watching Rain's amazing performance, fans can add to Rain's good will by donating in order to help the needy children."


Source: from rain-usa/tokki
credits: jinlees of soompi

I'm happy to read the above article since it really gives us an idea of just how big and spectacular the concert will be. With big name personalities in the music business giving their talent to ensure that the audience will leave with a very good impression of what Rain is capable of achieving as an international arist. The only letdown for me is not seeing the Philippines in the list of countries he will go to perform. I've been excited for the past couple of months that my country is always in the list of venues for his World Tour so being excluded all of a sudden is a real bummer. Now should I have a plan B that will include travelling to another country just to catch the show?

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