When it comes to philanthropy, Billie Eilish has her money the place her mouth is in the meanwhile.
The Grammy winner lately accepted the Music Innovator Award on the Wall Street Journal Magazine Innovator Awards held in New York City.
Late night time discuss present host Stephen Colbert thanked her proper earlier than for permitting him to “break some news.”
“This is extraordinary,” Colbert said. “Billie Eilish will be donating proceeds from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to support organizations, projects and voices dedicated to food equity, client justice, reducing carbon pollution and combating the climate crisis. That donation, ladies and gentleman, is $11.5 million.”
“That’s wonderful,” Colbert mentioned. “Billie, on behalf of humans, thank you very much.”
Eilish then took to the stage to settle for the award and had some phrases for the billionaires within the room, which reportedly included Mark Zuckerberg.
“We’re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and people need empathy and help more than kind of ever, especially in our country,” she mentioned. “I’d say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things, maybe give it to some people that need it.”
Eilish then added: “Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me.”
“If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?,” she mentioned. “No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.”
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She then expressed her love once more and thanked everybody.