One World: Together at Home — a global virtual benefit concert
A worldwide virtual concert series curated by Lady Gaga and organized with Global Citizen to support the World Health Organization and pandemic relief efforts.
One World: Together at Home was a global virtual benefit concert and programming initiative presented in spring 2020 to support frontline health workers and pandemic relief efforts. Organized by the advocacy group Global Citizen and curated by Lady Gaga, the special was produced in collaboration with the World Health Organization and broadcast across many television and streaming platforms.
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Format and content
The event combined short musical performances, interviews, and documentary-style segments filmed remotely. Artists contributed from home or private spaces; many segments honored medical personnel and shared firsthand accounts from clinics and hospitals. The broadcast mixed live and pre-recorded material and spanned diverse musical styles and languages to reflect an international audience.
Origins and organization
Conceived as a rapid-response fundraising and awareness effort during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Together at Home brought together philanthropic partners, production teams, broadcasters and streaming services to create a coordinated global telecast. The initiative built on a larger public-health fundraising campaign and sought to concentrate attention on the needs of care workers and vulnerable communities.
Impact and uses
The broadcast raised funds for pandemic response and directed resources to public-health organizations and local relief groups. Beyond fundraising, the program aimed to provide a sense of solidarity and to highlight the experiences of health-care staff, while modeling how large-scale cultural events could be staged remotely when in-person gatherings were not possible.
Notable aspects
Together at Home was notable for its scale, for assembling a wide roster of performers and public figures, and for demonstrating new production approaches under social-distancing constraints. It is often cited as an early example of high-profile, purpose-driven live-streamed entertainment during a global crisis.
Although sometimes referred to simply as Together at Home, the event is most commonly identified by the fuller title One World: Together at Home and remains a reference point for later virtual benefit events and hybrid performances.
Participants in the six-hour "pre-show"
| Artist | Music contribution | Country of incorporation |
| Andra Day | "Rise Up" | United States |
| Niall Horan | "Black and White" | United Kingdom |
| Vishal Mishra | "Aaj Bhi" | India |
| Sofi Tukker | "Purple Hat" | United States |
| Maren Morris and Hozier | "The Bones" | United States |
| Adam Lambert | "Mad World" | United States |
| Rita Ora | "I Will Never Let You Down" | United Kingdom |
| Hussain Al Jassmi | "Bahebek Wahashteni" and "Mohem Jedan" | United Arab Emirates |
| Kesha | "Rainbow" | United States |
| Lang Lang and Gina Alice Redlinger (his wife) | "Four Hands" | United States |
| Virtual Orchestra Instrumentation | "Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns. | different locations |
| Luis Fonsi | "No Me Doy por Vencido" | Puerto Rico |
| Jennifer Hudson | "Memory" | United States |
| Liam Payne | "Midnight" | United Kingdom |
| Black Coffee and Delilah Montagu | "Drive" | Sud Africa |
| "Mr. Brightside" | United States | |
| Eason Chan | "I Have Nothing" | Hong Kong |
| Lisa Mishra | "Sanja Ve" | India |
| milky chance | "Stolen Dance" | Germany |
| Charlie Puth | United States | |
| Jessie Reyez | "Coffin" | United States |
| Picture This | "Troublemaker" | Ireland |
| Jessie J | "Flashlight" | United States |
| Common | "The Light" | United States |
| Jacky Cheung | "Touch of Love" | Hong Kong |
| Sebastián Yatra | "Robarte un Beso" | Colombia |
| Ben Platt | "I Want To Hold Your Hand" | United States |
| Delta Goodrem | "Together We Are One" | Australia |
| Annie Lennox | "I Saved the World Today" | United States |
| Sheryl Crow | "I Shall Believe" | United States |
| Juanes | "Mas Futuro Que Pasado" | United States |
| Ellie Goulding | "Love Me Like You Do" | United Kingdom |
| Christine and the Queens | "People, I've Been Sad" | France |
| Zucchero | "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" | Italy |
| Jack Johnson | "Better Together" | United States |
| Kesha | "Praying" | United States |
| Cassper Nyovest | "Malome" | Sud Africa |
| Adam Lambert | "Superpower" | United States |
| Sofi Tukker | "Drinkee" | United States |
| Finneas | "Let's Fall in Love for the Night" | United States |
| The Killers | "Caution." | United States |
| Jess Glynne | "I'll Be There" | United Kingdom |
| Sho Madjozi | "Good Over Here" | Sud Africa |
| Michael Bublé | "God Only Knows" | Canada |
| Liam Payne and Rita Ora | "For You" | United Kingdom |
| Common | "God is Love" | United States |
| Christine and the Queens | "Mountains We Met" | France |
| Ben Platt | "Bad Habit" | United States |
| Picture This | "Winona Ryder" | Ireland |
| Juanes | "Es Por Ti" | United States |
| Eason Chan | "Love" | Hong Kong |
| Charlie Puth | "Attention" | United States |
| Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson | "Brown Skin Girl" | United States |
| Billy Ray Cyrus | "Sunshine Girl" | United States |
| Ellie Goulding | "Burn" | United Kingdom |
| Sheryl Crow | "Everyday Is a Winding Road" | United States |
| Hozier | "Take Me to Church" | Ireland |
| Angèle | "Balance ton Quoi" | Belgium |
| Sebastián Yatra | "Un Año" | Colombia |
| SuperM | "With You" | Korea Sud South Korea |
| Luis Fonsi | Puerto Rico | |
| Jessie J | "Bang Bang" | United States |
| Lady Antebellum | "What I'm Leaving For" | United States |
| Annie Lennox and Lola Lennox | "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" | United States |
| Niall Horan | "Slow Hands" | United Kingdom |
| John Legend | "Bigger Love" | United States |
| Jennifer Hudson | United States |
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