Concert: Sounds Right (UN Live) x Climate Live Entertainment + Culture Pavilion
Join us for an evening filled with live music performances from incredible artists from all around the world, hosted by Nátaly Neri, Charity Ekezie, Mikaela Loach & Dominique Palmer, featuring a talk from UN Live about their Sounds Right initiative. Performances from: Madame Gandhi, Leshao Leshao, Thaline Karajá, Isleña Antumalen, Loica & Matsipaya Waura Txucarramãe.
Nátaly Neri
Nátaly Neri is a Brazilian content creator and storyteller. With a Bachelor's and a Degree in Social Sciences, Nátaly Neri has been a content creator on the internet since 2015, garnering over 1 million followers on her social media channels. She is a strong advocate for sustainability and shares content on themes such as veganism, slow living, conscious fashion, as well as racial, social, and gender relations.
Charity Ekezie
Charity Ekezie is a Nigerian content creator and storyteller who uses digital media to challenge stereotypes and share authentic narratives about Africa. Through her viral videos on Youtube and other platforms, she educates global audiences about African culture, lifestyle, and innovation. Charity is passionate about using storytelling as a tool for social impact and believes in the power of digital voices to inspire understanding, sustainability, and change across borders.
Mikaela Loach
Mikaela Loach is an acclaimed author, climate justice organiser, and speaker, recognised as one of the most influential women in the climate movement by Forbes, The Guardian, and BBC Woman’s Hour. Prospect magazine chose her as one of the “World's Top Thinkers” in 2024. Mikaela holds a degree in Global Health Policy, and her impactful climate activism has garnered an online community of over 300,000 combined followers.
Madame Gandhi
Kiran Gandhi, who performs as Madame Gandhi, is an award-winning artist and activist known for her uplifting, percussive electronic music and positive message about gender liberation and personal power.
In 2022, she traveled to Antarctica while pursuing her Masters in Music, Science and Technology at Stanford University's CCRMA to record the sounds of glaciers melting to create awareness and empathy around climate change. These sounds are now featured in her latest song “In Purpose” available on all streaming platforms, where for the first time ever, NATURE is credited as an artist to receive a portion of all streaming royalties. This is part of Earth Percent's Sounds Right initiative.
Isleña Antumalen
Isleña Antumalen is a Mapuche-Huilliche artist, singer, and songwriter who fuses electronic, urban, and ancestral music to express resistance, identity, and connection to territory. With her debut album Ñaña, she established a powerful proposal that bridges roots and future, gaining recognition in both the Chilean and international scenes. Her art engages with the defense of water, land, and life, intertwining activism, performance, and spirituality. She has participated in global events, bringing the voice of Indigenous peoples from southern Chile to the contemporary cultural and climate debate.
Thaline Karajá
Singer, musician, and Indigenous Karajá activist, born in Santarém (PA) and raised in Tocantins. She studies Social Communication and IT in Finland, in English and Finnish. For 11 years, she has been active in the environmental, Indigenous, and feminist movements, with experience at Greenpeace, Engajamundo, and the UN. She has represented her people in the European Parliament, at five UN COPs, and in marches for the Amazon and the climate across Europe. In 2020, she participated in The Voice Brasil, moving millions of Indigenous people. She sings, mobilizes, and carries her ancestry with her every step of the way. She continues to decolonize spaces and amplify the voices of Indigenous peoples in the fight for climate justice and land demarcation.
Gabriel Smales
Gabriel Smales is an innovation leader working at the intersection of culture, technology, finance and campaigns to address global challenges. Over the past decade, he has designed and led impact initiatives that tackle issues ranging from financial inclusion and smallholder agriculture to biodiversity conservation and climate action.
As the principal orchestrator behind Sounds Right – a global music initiative to recognise the value of nature led by UN Live – Gabriel is working to redefine how culture can mobilise the mainstream for environmental action. Since launching NATURE as an official artist, the music has been streamed 250 million times by 26 million people around the world, generating over half a million dollars in royalties and donations for conservation, and sparking public discussion about how we value nature in our society. Sounds Right recently won the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Innovation, Gold for Sustainable Development Goals, and 8 other awards in music and creative sectors. Please see this 2-min film capturing highlights from NATURE’s debut year here.
Leshao Leshao
Amos Leshao Sopia (Leshao Leshao) is a Kenyan musician and civil engineer from the Maasai community. Singing in the Maasai language, he blends tradition with contemporary music to advocate for climate action and indigenous rights. He has performed globally, including at SB 62 in Germany and COP29.
Dominique Palmer
Dominique Palmer is a Climate Justice Activist, writer, and graduate of Political Science and International Relations in the U.K. She is part of Climate Live, and a founding member of the Youth Climate Justice Fund. Her work focuses on intersectional and equitable climate action, making environmentalism inclusive, slow fashion, harnessing creative means to communicate the climate crisis, and finding joy through uniting.
Palmer is a winner of the prestigious Planetary Health Award, BBC 1 Xtra ‘Future Figure’ and in 2023, was honoured as a ‘Young Leader’ at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards. She was also named in Forbes 2020 Top U.K Environmentalists List for her work. She was named one of the U.K’s most high profile youth activists on Sky News, and has featured in major publications including British Vogue, DAZED, the Sunday Times Style, and Global Citizen.
Loica
Loica, is a Chilean singer, song composer, climate justice advocate and human ecologist. The connection between the environment and music is the backbone of her identity. Loica's songs spring up as a refuge that helps her to stay grounded in the face of climate devastation, and in her search for music as an act of restoration for a damaged planet.
She is an artist in residence at Artivist Network where she leads SingTheWay project, and a Global Music student at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.
Matsipaya Waura Txucarramãe
Matsi Matziri is the son of the Kayapó and Waurá peoples. A member of the People's Climate Alliance, he works as a community communicator and composer. His work stems from a commitment to respecting people, memory, and diversity, building bridges between tradition, art, and the future.
Sounds Right
Sounds Right is a music initiative to recognise the value of NATURE and inspire millions of fans to take environmental action. For the first time, NATURE can generate royalties from its own sounds to support its own conservation.
Museum for the United Nations - UN Live
Museum for the United Nations – UN Live is a ‘borderless’ museum that sparks global empathy, action, and change through the power of popular culture and dialogue. UN Live takes the concept of the museum to a different level. With no physical building, we are a museum that reaches people everywhere, by meeting them where they are with cultural experiences.
SingTheWay - Leshao Leshao, Loica & Matsipaya
SingTheWay is a project that aims to equip and inspire the climate movement with an accessible library of existing songs, poetry, and chants from around the global climate movement, while at the same time, inviting and supporting the creation of new songs from artists around the world. SingTheWay is a collaborative project led by a small team of artists and activists from The Artivist Network, The Movement Hub, and Radish Radio.