Bono becomes 65: a musician with a mission

Bono (65), singer of the legendary rock band U2 and creditor Christian, has been raising his prominent voice again and again with some pathos for the good in the world – and polarizes like hardly any other living music icon.

Paul David Hewson, as the world star born on May 10, 1960 is called in Dublin, is a big friend of durability. He has been playing with his former schoolmates, the guitarist The Edge (David Howell Evans), the bass player Adam Clayton and the drummer Larry Mullen Junior, in the same band. With his wife Alison Hewson, the musician has been happy and faithful for decades – he got to know her at school in 1982 Traualtar. Just a little later he led his band U2 to a first career highlight, which should still follow countless others in a nice reliability.

With the third studio album “War” and the politically charged hits “New Year’s Day” and “Sunday, Bloody Sunday”, the determined rockers in 1983 also achieved the big breakthrough in 1983. The album “The Joshua Tree”, published in 1987 with the single dropouts “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found what i’m Looking for”, the band members finally made world stars.

At that time, U2 had not only made a name for herself through her music, but also through her massive commitment to a better and fairer world in which the singer Bono played an important role. A first milestone in this regard was the participation in the “Live Aid” charity organized by Bob Geldof in 1985.

In the following decades, the singer developed into one of the most prominent figures in the international world improvement scene and used his influence primarily for the fight against AIDS and poverty, as well as for debt relief in developing countries. In 2002, together with the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, he founded the organization “DeBt, AIDS, Trade in Africa” ​​(data), which is committed to debt, free trade and combating AIDS on the continent. For his social commitment, Bono has now been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In his role as a tireless activist, he has hit many powerful in the world in his role as a tireless activist and shaken countless hands. In addition to political personalities such as Bill Clinton, George Bush, Nelson Mandela or Angela Merkel, the two popes of John Paul II and the recently deceased Francis also received him a conversation.

His commitment to a fairer world not only brought Bono recognition, but also a lot of criticism and ridicule. His critics accuse the musician, whose current private assets are estimated at around $ 700 million, lack a lack of credibility and messianic self -love. According to the “Irish Independent”, even his colleague Mick Jagger is said to have lovingly blasphemed about him: “He is a poet, a philosopher. And I think I saw him walking over the water last night.”