The song, Beautiful Earth by the Classical Brit winners, taken from their album Together, has already had backing from former US Vice President Al Gore and will be released as an online single on March 22, with all profits donated to the environmental charity.
The group's Stephen Bowman said: "Ever since a child in the 80s I've known WWF and its iconic panda logo, but I never dreamed one day I'd be able to do something to help them around the world - we hope that us joining the Earth Hour campaign, using a simple song to spread the message worldwide, will show we're all in this together." Bandmate Humphrey Berney added: "WWF has always been at the forefront of campaigning and acting to preserve the planet. It is wonderful to be involved in their great work, especially at such a critical time." On March 27, millions of people around the world will show they care about climate change by turning off their lights for an hour - Earth Hour - at 8.30pm. Beautiful Earth will be released online on March 22, and a special edition of Together will be released on March 29.
About Blake
Blake are a classical vocal quartet. They are widely known as the group who formed on Facebook. They released their debut album "Blake" in November 2007, which won the Album of the Year Award at the Classical BRIT Awards in 2008. The album contains covers of popular classical songs and themes from the movies, to create a more commercial classical-pop crossover sound. They sang for Shirley Bassey at her 70th birthday party, and performed in front of 80,000 football fans at Wembley Stadium. They are managed by the TCB Group. In the summer of 2007 their version of the ‘Swing Low’ was chosen as the Official Anthem of the England rugby team for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. They sang at the opening of the 2008 Melbourne Cup in Australia and supported Katherine Jenkins on her UK tour. During Children in Need 2007, over £1,000,000 was raised while Blake were performing God Only Knows. Blake's second album, "And So It Goes", was released in September 2008. This contains more arrangements of pop music than the debut album, as well as a negro-spiritual and the Intermezzo from Cavelleria Rusticana. In February 2009, baritone Dominic Tighe announced that he was leaving the group, shortly before their maiden tour, to return to his acting career. The group continued with their use of social networking websites, by advertising for a new member on Twitter. After two weeks, and 55,000 subscribing to their "tweets", Humphrey Berney (better known as "Barney") joined the group. The quartet's good looks are an important part of their appeal. Founder member Jules Knight said, "We had a few people who looked like Paul Potts, one or two who were 75 and even had a few girls, but Barney is great and things are working well".
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