Top Italian performer, the rapper Fedez, has started up a fund to help the many colleagues in the entertainment business, who have remained unemployed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A great many singers, actors and musicians are self-employed and fall outside the financial safety net set up by the Italian government to help small businesses, workers and employees to offset their current drop in income.

Fedez and his wife, the influencer and fashion blogger Chiara Ferragni, who instituted fund collection earlier this year to build a new intensive care unit in the San Raffaele hospital of Milan, have so far involved 85 singers and celebrities as well as record label companies and events organizers in the initiative. Conspicuous donations have also arrived from Amazon Prime Video and the Intesa San Paolo bank.

The fund gathering campaign, called “Scena Unita” is sponsored by MIBACT (the Italian Ministry of Art and Culture) and managed by leading Italian humanitarian organization Cesvi.

Info: www.scenaunita.org