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African Children’s Choir Performs in Cape Coral

African Children's Choir

The African Children’s Choir has been performing for audiences all over the world for more than 30 years and will come to Southwest Florida for a performance at the First Baptist Church of Cape Coral on Nov. 26.

The group’s performances of African songs and dances, along with well-loved children’s songs, and traditional spirituals and gospel songs, delight audiences. Over the years choir members have performed with well-known artists such as Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Keith Urban and Mariah Carey to name a few.  However, the underlying mission of the choir is to raise funds for its humanitarian and relief efforts helping Africa’s most vulnerable children.  The Choir’s parent organization Music for Life has helped to educate more than 52,000 children in the African countries of Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa.

Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.