Entertainment Industry Supports “We Need You” Campaign

Entertainment Industry Supports “We Need You” Campaign Encouraging Women To Vote

On Tuesday, October 20th, Tony-nominated actor Ariana DeBose took to Instagram and Twitter to show her support of “We Need You,” a new GOTV song and video encouraging women to vote in the 2020 elections. Known for being an original cast member in Hamilton, her feature role alongside Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep as Alyssa Greene in Ryan Murphy’s The Prom, and her role as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of West Side Story, DeBose's recent support brings new energy and visibility to the campaign.

Along with Debose, support from Women in Music, Broadway World, and the Music Managers Forum, shows that the entertainment industry is loving this fun, bootstrapped, grassroots GOTV campaign from six women who took it upon themselves to inspire millions of women to vote.

Watch the official "We Need You" music video below:

After realizing that 50 million registered women voters did not cast their ballot during the 2016 election, Brittany, Dahlia, Jessenia, Soleil, Virginia and Ximone combined musical forces to send a simple, yet powerful message to women everywhere – "We Need You!"

“We knew we needed to do something,” shares Virginia Marcs, a member of the Creative Natives Songwriting Collective that initiated the idea of creating a theme song, “to give women the inspiration to do whatever it takes to make sure their vote counts.”

“We believe that a wave of women voters will be the deciding factor in the 2020 presidential election,” shares Jessenia Vargas, a former Miss Queens pageant winner and alumnus of The American Musical And Dramatic Academy in New York.

“We want to empower the historical turnout needed to honor the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment and the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act,” shares Brittany Brook, founder of Moonshadow Music and a Creative Natives Collective member along with Ms. Marcs.

“Own your greatness has always been my message,” says Soleil Laurent, “and now it’s time for all of us to own how powerful we women can be in politics.”

Brooklyn-raised international folk artist Dahlia Dumont shares, “Some women didn’t like Hillary. Maybe some women like chauvinism. Some feel like the electoral college system makes them feel like our votes don’t matter. Well now is the time to show that world that our votes do matter.”

With their goal is to inspire millions of women to vote in record numbers in the 2020 Presidential Election, the team encourages everyone to share the “We Need You” song and music video on social media, using the hashtag #WeNeedYou2020.

“We are women who care and who seek to use whatever talents and energy we have,” shares Ximone, a recording artist and founder of the digital music magazine Siren Magazine. “We are willing to be seen, stand up, and be counted,” she continues. “Our time is now.”

The artists are inspired to get this message out to women voters across the country, regardless of political affiliation, and have all agreed that if any royalties are earned from the song, for the lifetime of the song, all proceeds will go to the League of Women Voters.

Learn more at: https://weneedyou.vote/