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Google s 2020 Year in Search campaign featured a song by music producer Peter CottonTale, the first original song ever commissioned for the campaign, the company confirmed to Business Insider.
The song features Chance the Rapper, singer and actress Cynthia Erivo, and the Chicago Children s Choir, among others.
The 29-year-old CottonTale told Insider the song s goals were both to highlight Black creatives and the narrative of loss through the perspective of the Black community, which has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
CottonTale says over 80 Black artists, engineers, producers, and managers came together to create the song.
Google will donate $35,000 to the Chicago Children s Choir and $15,000 to the Merit School of Music. In 2020, just 3.7% of Google employees were Black, up from 2.4% in 2014, as reported by Fortune.
P Barney Barnes: ‘The logistics of sorting everything out is a mess’.
P Barney Barnes in Hemel Hempstead, which is in tier 4, said there were “tears on both sides” when he and his family realised they would not be seeing each other at Christmas. “It was a sleepless night last night,” said the digital marketer. “I haven’t seen my niece all year.”
Barnes was planning on travelling to Manchester during the five-day window and arranged delivery and collection of gifts during his stay. “I can accept Christmas is a luxury we may not be able to justify at the moment but the logistics of sorting everything out is a mess.”