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One Love Manchester Benefit Concert: Ariana Grande gets emotional; Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and others perform
It was all about unity at Ariana Grande's One Love Manchester Benefit Concert for the Manchester attack victims.
The unfortunate Manchester Attacks which took place at Ariana Grande's concert left 19 dead and 15 wounded. Ariana had taken to Twitter to express her sadness and grief as she said, "Broken. From the bottom of my heart, I am so so sorry. I don't have words."
But not bowing down to hate, Ariana Grande held a benefit concert today in Manchester at the Old Trafford cricket ground in front of 50,000 fans - just two miles away from the Manchester Arena.
Dressed in a white One Love Machester sweatshirt with faded torn jeans and black boots, Ariana started the concert and was joined by many other artists throughout the night singing songs that inspired the crowd to stand up and fight against the hate.
Her duet with Miley Cyrus on Don't Dream It's Over won over the crowd while Ariana even joined Coldplay on stage as they spread the message of love. Justin Bieber broke down in tears as he performed on Love Yourself and Cold Water. He said, "I just want to take this moment to honour the people that were lost, that were taken. We love you so much. To the families we love you so much." Katy Perry performing on Roar left a powerful and lasting impact. Niall Horan performed his singles Slow Hands and This Town.
Scooter Braun, Ariana's manager gave a heartfelt speech as he recounted Adam's, a 15-year-old who lost his friend Olivia in the bombing, words. Adam told Scooter to tell the crowd at the concert, "Don't go forward in anger, love spreads.
"Before we go any further, I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being here today. I love you so so much. Thank you. I want to thank you so much for coming together and being so loving and strong and unified. I love you guys so much and I think that the kind of love and unity we’re displaying is the medicine that the world really needs right now. So I want to thank you for being just that," Ariana told the crowd in attendance.
Ariana also spoke about meeting one of the victim's other over the weekend and how it was her who inspired the entire concert's set list. "And I want to also say I had the pleasure of meeting Olivia [Campbell]‘s mommy a few days ago. And as soon as I met her I started crying and I gave her a big hug and she said that I should stop crying because Olivia wouldn’t have wanted me to cry. And then she told me that Olivia would have wanted to hear the hits," Ariana said.
"So that means that we had a totally different show planned and we had a rehearsal yesterday where we changed everything and this evening has been so light and so filled with fun and love and bright energy and I want to thank you for that," Ariana concluded. She ended the concert with her song Love Me Harder and Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
The One Love Manchester Benefit Concert helped raise 2 million dollars for the ones affected by the Machester Attack.
Watch the full concert below:
