USA for Africa

USA for Africa was a U.S. charity supergroup formed in 1985 to record the benefit single "We Are the World," written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones. The project assembled a wide range of American pop, rock, and R&B singers for a pop-oriented ensemble performance that alternates solo turns with group harmonies. The act is primarily notable as a high-profile musician collaboration organized to raise funds for famine relief in Africa rather than as a conventional band with an ongoing musical output.