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Singer Don McLean addresses the crowd during a ceremony to award him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame …
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Singer Don McLean addresses the crowd during a ceremony to award him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2021.
“American Pie” singer Don McLean is nixing a performance at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting in the wake of the school shooting in Texas that killed at least 19 children.
“In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week,” McLean said in a Wednesday statement, according to multiple reports.
“I’m sure all the folks planning to attend this event are shocked and sickened by these events as well. After all, we are all Americans,” the 76-year-old Grammy Award winner said.
“I share the sorrow for this terrible, cruel loss with the rest of the nation,” McLean said. McLean’s representatives didn’t immediately return ITK’s request for comment on Thursday. News of McLean declining to take the stage at the NRA’s leadership summit, which begins Friday, was first reported by the Portland Press Herald. Biden, K-pop superstars BTS teaming up to raise awareness of anti-Asian hate crimes
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