RCA artist Pitbull, aka Mr. International, was honored Sunday (Sept. 28) at the 15th annual T.J. Martell Foundation Family Day, hosted at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
The 305 rapper headlined the grand fête’s concert and took home the first-ever Family Day Artist Achievement Award. Also recognized was RCA Records President and COO, Tom Corson.
Via Billboard:
The T.J. Martell Foundation uses Family Day, a carnival-style fundraiser with silent auctions and musical performances, to help raise money for cancer, leukemia and AIDS research. To date, the foundation has raised over $5 million, with Corson and his team contributing over $300,000.
For Corson, the decision to also highlight Pitbull was an easy one, considering the artist’s history in the industry and path to stardom. “He’s one of the great stories in music in the last five or six years. I know what family means to him, and I know that he’s a guy that really stands behind causes. I just hoped he would do it, and he agreed in an instant.”
Congrats to Pitbull and RCA’s head honcho.
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