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“An initiative embracing dance to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS among young people. A key part of the Durex Network is working with like-minded organisations to raise awareness of the safer sex message. We are delighted that one of our first partnerships has been established with Dance4Life.”
Peter Roach, vice president of the Durex Network |
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Friends  Dance4Life Ambassadors
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Dance4Life Ambassadors
Nafis Sadik, Patron of Dance4Life
Dr. Sadik is Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia. In 1987, Dr. Sadik was appointed Executive Director of UNFPA, becoming one of the highest ranking women in the UN system and the first woman to lead one of its major programmes.
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Tiësto, International Dance4Life Ambassador
Tiësto began as a DJ and producer in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 90’s, and soon became the Number 1 DJ in the World. As International Ambassador for Dance4Life he has appeared at many events, produced and released the ‘Dance4Life’ track and attracted much media interest to Dance4Life.
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Paul van Dyk, International Dance4Life Ambassador
Paul hails from Germany, but is a truely international DJ, touring all around the world, and having had his own hits since the early 90s and remixing other artist's work such as Justin Timberlake and Depeche Mode. He has been involved with Dance4Life since 2004.
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Her Excellency Priscilla Jana, International Dance4Life Ambassador
Her Excellency became a Dance4Life Ambassador when she was the South African Ambassador to the Netherlands, and was involved in the launch of Dance4Life in 2004. Now South African Ambassador to Ireland, she has ties to Dance4Life Ireland.
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Ilco van der Linde, International Dance4Life Ambassador
Ilco started organising events in 1979 when he was sixteen with Bevrijdingspop and went on to organise many other events such as Racism Beat It Festival. He co-founded Dance4Life, and was Director of Dance4Life International until January 2007.
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Alexander Shelley, Dance4Life Germany
The 27 year old English conductor Alexander Shelley is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most creative musical talents of his generation. While undertaking regular appearances with major orchestras all over the world, he greatly enjoys bringing classical music to younger audiences.
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Alexey Vorobyov
Alexey was one of the finalists in the "Secret of Success", the Russian equivalent of the X-factor. He then signed with Universal Music and since then has been the face of MTV and continued releasing singles and acting. He joined Dance4Life in 2008 as an Ambassador and has already visited schools with Dance4Life.
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DJ Aly and Fila, Dance4Life Egypt
DJ Aly and Fila met in kindergarten, set up their own studio when they eighteen, and have become Egypt’s most talented and in-demand DJs. There biggest success to date was ‘Eye of Hours’. They DJ-ed at the Dance4Life Event at the Pyramids.
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Benjamin Bates, Dance4Life Netherlands
Benjamin is a DJ, producer and makes electronic music. A good friend of his has been living with HIV since 1996, and this has spurred him on to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS. His second studio album, Recyclomania, included the Dance4Life anthem 2007, "On my feet (This world needs more people like you)."
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DJ Black Coffee and SHANA, Dance4Life South Africa
Thandukwazi Demor Sikhosana, Mnqobi Mdabe, and Nathi Maphumulo [Black Coffee] are Simply Hot And Naturally African (SHANA). Experimenting with the African traditional genre, they fuse elements of house and afro soul and add it to the mix. They performed at the Dance4Life Event in 2006.
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Black Mango Music, Dance4Life South Africa
Black Mango Music is a record label run by Africans living in and between London, Johannesburg, Harare and Cape Town. They concentrate on releasing the new wave of African music coming out of the continent. Several of their artists performed at the Dance4Life Event, such as Goldfish and Carla Diamond.
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Dare Art Alade, Dance4Life Nigeria
Dare Art Alade, 25, is a very popular and talented musician from Nigeria, who came third in Project Fame, the TV programme based in South Africa, where music students from across Africa competed in the Fame Academy, writing, singing and perfoming their own songs.
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Don Diablo, Dance4Life Netherlands
Don Diablo is a DJ who signed his first record deal at the age of fifteen, and his recently been nominated as one of the five most popular dance artists in the Netherlands. Not only did he perform at the Dance4Life Event, but he also travelled to South Africa with TMF to make a TV programme about HIV/AIDS there.
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Ebby Sykes, Dance4Life Tanzania
Ebby Sykes is a singer and musician, and his song ‘Sema Naye’ has appeared on the Dance4Life moodclip and can be heard on the Dance4Life radio. He also performed at the Dance4Life Event in Dar-es-Salaam, and gave his normally relaxed songs a reggae beat to get the crowds going.
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Fid Q, Dance4Life Tanzania
When Fid Q created 'Ukweli na Uwazi' on the now classic 'Wachuja Nafaka' album, Bongo hip-hop was born again through the sharp lyricism of Fareed Kubanda, aka Fid Q! He is without doubt the biggest rapper in Tanzania, and when he appeared at the Dance4Life Event in 2006 the crowd went wild.
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Giel Beelen, Dance4Life Netherlands
Giel is a well-known radio DJ in the Netherlands with a morning show on 3FM, and appears regularly on TV. He kicked off the Schools Project live on his radio show which was broadcast into all the classrooms of the participating schools. He also co-presented the Dance4Life Event in 2006.
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Jesse Voorn, Dance4Life Netherlands
Jesse is known in the Netherlands as a DJ who mixes all types of music, and is to be found in most of the Dutch clubs and dance festivals. As a Dance4Life Ambassador he was spinning on the Dance4Life truck at the Fast Forward Dance Parade in Rotterdam in 2006, and in the same year at the Dance4Life Event. Recently Jesse released his track SeeMe, featuring ZoëXenia. The money that is raised with this track will be donated to Dance4Life!
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DJ Jimmy Jatt, Dance4Life Nigeria
Jimi Amu a.k.a DJ Jimmy Jatt, undoubtedly Africa's no. 1 disc jockey, is revered for his role in setting the pace for hip-hop music across his country, Nigeria. He performed at the Dance4Life Event in 2006.
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Kaffy and her Zebra Dance Group, Dance4Life Nigeria
Kaffy (Kafayat Shafau) is known in Nigeria as the Danceathon Queen! She and her dance group, Zebra, made it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2006 for dancing for an amazing 53 hours, 30 minutes, non-stop! They also performed at the Dance4Life Event.
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Katung, Maureen and Gideon, Dance4Life Nigeria
Katung, Maureen and Gideon were all members of the Big Brother Nigeria house, and are very well-known with the youth in their country. Gideon compered the Dance4Life Event, and Katung and Maureen brought the rest of the housemates to the Event with them!
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DJ Khaled Abdel Rahman, Dance4Life Egypt
Khaled joined the Egyptian Air Force but after a plane crash decided to become a DJ. It payed off, as in 2000 he won the title of The Best DJ in The Century in The Middle East. Not only does he DJ, but he produces and organises dance events, and he helped set up the Dance4Life Event in 2006.
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Marco V, Dance4Life Netherlands
Marco V has been a driving force in the global electronic music scene for the past ten years, and has become a much respected DJ and producer of trance and techno. In 2006 he travelled to Tanzania to take part in the Dance4Life Event there, and that isn’t the first nor last time he’ll be playing for Dance4Life.
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Maxi Jazz, Dance4Life Netherlands
Maxi Jazz is the singer from Faithless, who have hits such as 'God is a DJ' and 'Insomnia'. They were hugely influential in the 90's, getting dance music accepted by the rock and pop public. Maxi Jazz collaborated with Tiësto on the 'Dance4Life' anthem and sang the lyrics. He also donated money from the ticket sales for the Faithless concert in September 2007 to Dance4Life.
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Metis, Dance4Life UK
Metis is a UK-based spoken word Hip Hop artist, originally from California, who has performed widely throughout both New York and London - including at the Dance4Life Event there in 2006!
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Miljuschka Witzenhausen, Dance4Life Netherlands
Miljuschka was born in 1985 and at the age of twenty became a VJ for TMF, the Dutch music channel. In 2006 she travelled to South Africa and filmed a programme for TMFabout visiting HIV and AIDS youth projects which are supported by Dance4Life. She also co-hosted the Dance4Life Event in the Gelredome. In 2008 Miljuschka will host different Dance4Life events again.
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The Partysquad, Dance4Life Netherlands
In 2006 The Partysquad decided to support Dance4Life. The revenues of the anthem they made for the TMF awards were donated to Dance4Life. Besides they performed at the Dance4Life event.
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Sander van Doorn, Dance4Life Netherlands
Sander hit the big time in 2006, appearing on BBC Radio 1 three times, including with a live set from Ibiza; remixing the Arctic Monkey's 'When the sun goes down'; and crashing in to the DJ Mag Top 100 at number 32. He has appeared at many Dance4Life events, and has remixed the 'Dance4Life'anthem.
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Sandrien, Dance4Life Netherlands
Sandrien is probably one of the biggest rising stars of the Dutch dance scene. Her sparkling personality in combination with her qualities as a DJ, brought her to the top of female DJ’s in Holland over the last two years. Sandrien became an Ambassador for Dance4Life in 2006 and performed at the Dance4Life Event in 2006.
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Stella Damascus, Dance4Life Nigeria
Stella Damasus is one of Nigeria’s most popular actresses, as well as in the rest of Africa. She came to the Dance4Life Event in Lagos, and thrilled the young people with her presence. She is also a singer, and has signed a new recording contract.
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Tim Westwood, Dance4Life UK
Westwood is the most recognized urban DJ of the decade, the most influential figure in hip-hop in Europe, is a BBC Radio One DJ with 1.5 million listeners, and presents the most successful MTV UK production of all time, Pimp My Ride UK. He DJ-ed at the Dance4Life Event in London in 2006.
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Unique Sisters, Dance4Life Tanzania
The Unique Sisters are three sisters, and have been described as Tanzania’s very own Destiny’s Child. They take their role as Ambassadors of Dance4Life very seriously, and participated in touring the schools, a press conference and the Dance4Life Event.
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Vladimir Pozner, Dance4Life Russia
Vladimir Pozner is one of the most popular and reputable Russian broadcasters, and is President of the Russian Television Academy. He is known for his active participation in pushing back the HIV epidemic in Russia. He has supported Dance4Life for a few years now, and has appeared in videos for Dance4Life Russia.
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Wust El Balad, Dance4Life Egypt
Eight talented guys from all across the country joined together in Downtown, i.e. Wust El Balad, Cairo, forming one of the most successful bands in Egypt now. Being from different musical backgrounds, each guy brought his own flavour to the group. They performed at the Dance4Life Event at the Pyramids.
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Youssra, Dance4Life Egypt
Youssra is one of Egypt’s foremost actresses and singer, and is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. Incredibly popular in Egypt and across the Arabic world, she has starred in TV and cinema films. She was present at the Dance4Life Event and gave many interviews about Dance4Life to the media there.
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Dr. Zahi Hawass, Dance4Life Egypt
Dr. Hawass is the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt. In 2006 he was awarded an Emmy and was named as one of the "100 most influential" people in the world by Time Magazine. He arranged that the Dance4Life Event took place at the Pyramids in 2006.
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ZoëXenia, Dance4Life Netherlands
ZoëXenia is a Dutch producer and singer. She uses her voice not only as vocal, but instrument itself - as she demonstrated at the 2004 Dance4Life Event. A highlight of 2006 was her performance for Dance4Life at Gelredome stadium, performing from a high pillar before the immense crowd.
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Zolani Mkiva, Dance4Life South Africa
Zolani Mkiva is one of the youngest practitioners of one of the oldest oral traditions in South Africa: the Imbongi, or Praise Poet. He rose to prominence when he was called upon to praise the recently released Nelson Mandela at a Welcome Home Rally in the Transkei in 1990.
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