Annie Lennox really does rock and SING! On American Idols Gives Back, The 53 (CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?) Year old Scottish former Eurythmix singer performed Many Rivers To Cross and urged people to take action around women with HIV in South Africa.

Annie’s single Sing is from her album Songs of Mass Destruction. And she teamed up with 23 singers including Madonna, Celine Dion, Gladys Knight, Faith Hill and Shakira to record the song. Annie also started the SING campaign which raises awareness and money for organizations fighting HIV in South Africa. What inspired Annie?

going to South Africa for the very first time and being exposed to Mandela personally and witnessing him talking about the new event of HIV/AIDS, the pandemic, which has decimated millions of people across the continent of Africa and is continuing to decimate millions of people. He described it then as a genocide… I’ve been learning about this over the last four and a half years and it’s deeply disconcerting to me that people could be dying in such numbers and yet on our side of the planet, on the Western side, we don’t seem to realize it or respond to it. And I have personally witnessed the devastation that it has created in people’s lives. I’ve met child-headed houses, orphans and individuals who are right on the nub of life or death and it’s deeply and profoundly horrifying. So I’ve tried to respond to it, and I’m working alongside an organization called Treatment Action Campaign, who are just a fundamental, grass-roots South African organization.

Watch Annie explain her campaign. Watch her perform on American Idol. And watch Nelson Mandela introduce her SING music video. And watch Annie’s new special video of her class Why. The SING video will absolutely inspire you. If it doesn’t, you don’t have a pulse. by checking out SING, where you’ll find 10 ways to

1. DONATE DIRECTLY TO TAC HERE. SIMPLY CHOOSE HOW YOU WANT TO DONATE E.G. ONLINE, POST OR IN PERSON AND WHEN PROMPTED INSERT SING AS REFERENCE
2. ORGANISE AN EVENT TO HELP RAISE MONEY FOR TAC.
3. HOST A SING BANNER ON YOUR WEBSITE TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
4. ENCOURAGE YOUR LOCAL, SPORTS TEAM, CLUB, BAR, COLLEGE, TEACHERS OR ANY OTHER GROUP YOU KNOW TO TAKE PART IN THE GLOBAL SING ALONG EITHER AS A TEAM OR INDIVIDUALS.
5. ADD THE SING PROFILE TO YOUR MYSPACE AND PUT IT IN YOUR TOP FRIENDS TO HELP SPREAD THE MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
6. DOWNLOAD THE SING FLYER: BACK / FRONT
7. SEND BULLETINS ON YOUR MYSPACE PAGE ABOUT SING
8. IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN IN SCHOOL YOU COULD SPEAK WITH THEIR TEACHER OR HEADMASTER ABOUT GETTING YOUR SCHOOL INVOLVED BY EDUCATING THE CHILDREN ABOUT THE CAUSE, ORGANIZING FUNDRAISING EVENTS OR GETTING THE CHILDREN TO TAKE PART IN THE WORLDS BIGGEST SING-ALONG.
9. ONLINE PROMOTION TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES- TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT SING AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO FIND OUT MORE AND GET INVOLVED.
10. ASK YOUR BOSS TO EMAIL ALL EMPLOYEES WITH INFORMATION SING
11. CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE ON MYSPACE OR FACEBOOK TO THE SING LOGO