Popular pop band Westlife and singer Natasha Bedingfield will perform at the upcoming Nobel Peace Prize Concert honouring this year's winner US president Barack Obama. Chart-topper Bedingfield will share the stage with Wyclef Jean, Toby Keith and Chinese pianist Lang Lang at the event on December 11.
Donna Summer, American jazz singer Esperanza Spading, Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, Norwegian fiddler Alexander Rybak and Amadou & Mariam, a blues and jazz duet from Mali, will also form the line-up, reports the Daily Express.
Acclaimed actor Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett are set to host the evening that will be broadcast to "a global television audience," organisers revealed.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2009 prize to Obama for his "efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".
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