Lady Gaga, Joe Biden wants her with him in politics

It’s already been over two years since Lady Gaga sang the American national anthem on Capitol Hill on inauguration day by Joe Biden. The country had just witnessed the terrible images of the assault on the Capitol and the pop star entered with a wonderful golden dove with an olive branch pinned to her chest. A moving image capable of expressing the feelings and wishes of an entire people, still shaken by so much violence. Talent, passion and sensitivity: these are the ingredients that convinced the US president to entrust her with a new, prestigious task. Lady Gaga will co-chair the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities-PCAH i.e. the Presidential Committee for the Arts and Humanities.

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It is a White House advisory committee explicitly linked to cultural issues, which Donald Trump had abolished and which Biden intends to restore, bringing art and culture back to the center of his agenda in all its many manifestations. A decision that many have hailed as a sort of entry into politics for Lady Gaga, who will have an institutional role together with the producer Bruce Cohen and who will follow a series of national and international federal projects, encouraging the diffusion of the humanities and education. For this purpose, the committee was founded in 1982, which in 35 years, before its suppression in 2017, initiated and supported study programmes, educational workshops, competitions and congresses, raising awareness of a sector often taken for granted yet so vital .

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Versatile interpreter, both of music and cinema – how can we forget her interpretation in House of Gucci with Adam Driver and Al Pacino –, Lady Gaga will be the direct line between President Biden and the committee, composed among others by Jennifer Garner, Shonda Rhimes and George Clooney. Among the programs that will be reinstated are the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards, the Sundance Film Forward, a traveling festival with screenings and meetings with filmmakers, the Turnaround Arts, a project dedicated to elementary and middle school students in contrast to the poverty, and the National Student Poets Program, the highest honor given to young poets who present original work. Many initiatives to encourage culture in a country which, with its extremist tendencies, which consider Michelangelo’s David “pornographic”, risks intellectual decline.