{"id":110258,"date":"2023-06-26T14:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=110258"},"modified":"2023-07-03T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:31:07","slug":"ciara-grammy-award-winning-singer-songwriter-entrepreneur-and-philanthropist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2023\/06\/ciara-grammy-award-winning-singer-songwriter-entrepreneur-and-philanthropist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciara: GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and philanthropist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110202\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110202\" class=\" wp-image-110202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-400x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-200x125.png 200w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-400x250.png 400w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-600x375.png 600w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-800x500.png 800w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato-1080x675.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ciara_credit_lisa_kato.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Lisa Kato<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #046b99\"><strong>Ciara<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size:18px\">Ciara is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She has sold more than 23 million records worldwide. Ciara is not only known for her vocal talent and dance moves, but also the founder and CEO of her own label, Beauty Marks Entertainment (BME).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size:18px\"> In 2020, Ciara, along with husband Russell Wilson, launched The House of LR&amp;C, a new concept in retail built upon the principles of Love, Respect, and Care, with a focus on sustainability and doing good. Wilson and Ciara are committed philanthropists, co-founding the Why Not You Foundation with a focus on pediatric cancer, fighting poverty and education.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size:18px\"> Since 2014, they have raised more than $10 million for pediatric cancer research. Recently, they became New York Times Bestselling authors with the release of their first children\u2019s book \u201cWhy Not You\u201d (Random House). Through the foundation, the Wilsons have also funded a charter school in Seattle, which opened in late 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ciara Ciara is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7707],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdg-circle-of-supporters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}