ON THIS DAY Saturday, OCTOBER 27, 2001
B.R.E.A.T.H.E Breast Cancer Benefit Concert 2001
Aaliyah was scheduled to perform live on stage with three-time Grammy winner Seal at Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, California. I wonder what songs they arranged to perform together? What a duet that would have been, and for a good cause.
<< Source of details from LA Times, Billboard.com and MTV.com >>
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Seal had just met Aaliyah 2 weeks prior (In August 2001) when they got together to talk about which songs to perform at the event.
“You meet and touch somebody and then, two weeks later, they’re dead. I kept thinking: ‘It’s just a dream. I’m going to wake up in a bit.’ But she isn’t here,” Seal said. “It’s really sad. She was so young and with such a promising future.”
Seal would go on to perform with Stephan Jenkins (of Third Eye Blind); Jenkins told LA times that he "cried like a baby" after hearing of Aaliyah's death.
Rashad Haughton presented a $41,000 check donation (from the Aaliyah Memorial Fund) to the event prior to Seal and Jenkins taking the stage.
The money raised at this event was donated (in Aaliyah’s name) to the Revlon/UCLA Breast Center and New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Performances at this event included: Crazy Town, Deftones, Jurassic 5, Lil’ Kim, Nikka Costa, Run‐D.M.C., Seal, Sugar Ray, and Third Eye Blind.
