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L.A. Skid Row choir receives unprecedented approval from Red Hot Chili Peppers to cover ‘Under the Bridge’ on ‘AGT’
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of the lone holdout artists who rarely clear their songs for talent competitions. Back in 2014, frontman Anthony Kiedis told Hollywood Life, “Nothing against Glee or any of those American Idol-type shows, but you know… music that is near and dear to our hearts and the people we wrote it for and play it for, it doesn’t make sense to be seen in a television format. It seems emotionally displaced.” And nearly a decade later, there’s still never been a Peppers performance on the American versions of Idol, The Voice, or The X Factor.
But this week, Los Angeles choir the Freedom Singers surprisingly covered the RHCP’s biggest hit, “Under the Bridge,” on America’s Got Talent — and while the Peppers did sell their catalog to Hipgnosis for a reported $140 million in 2021, Yahoo Entertainment confirmed with their publicist that “the band did in fact approve” this specific use of the song. It makes sense that they’d make an exception in this case, considering that the Freedom Singers, who met through the Arts & Culture Department of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, are, to quote Kiedis himself, the people for who, the L.A. rock icons wrote “Under the Bridge.”
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