U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken launched the global music diplomacy initiative and personally played a guitar and performed a song during the concert.
Blinken posted the video on his Instagram.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has launched the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative, a worldwide effort to elevate music as a diplomatic tool to promote peace and democracy and support broader U.S. foreign policy goals.
Blinken himself took part in the celebration of the initiative’s launch. The Secretary of State played the guitar and sang.
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“I couldn’t miss today’s opportunity to combine music and diplomacy. It was a pleasure to launch the new Global Music Diplomacy Initiative,” he signed off.
According to the State Department’s website, the initiative aims to leverage public-private partnerships to create a music ecosystem that expands economic equality and the creative economy, provides social opportunity and inclusion, and expands access to education. The initiative will build on ongoing public diplomacy music programs to create public-private partnerships with U.S. companies and nonprofits to use music to create connections with people around the world.
Along with senior Biden administration officials, a bipartisan cohort of members of Congress, music industry icons, arts and humanities leaders, and alumni of music diplomatic exchange programs, Blinken announced the American Music Mentorship Program, a Fulbright-Kennedy Center Scholar Award in Arts and Science, and a program to bring American music and song into classrooms around the world as part of the U.S. investment in English language learning around the world.
