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ARIANA GRANDE<br />
A FEARLESS<br />
MESSAGE<br />
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At her One Love Manchester benefit<br />
concert <strong>June</strong> 4, a resilient Ariana Grande<br />
showed the world that love always wins<br />
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Ariana Grande refused to sit<br />
idly by. Nearly two weeks<br />
after a suicide bombing<br />
claimed 22 lives — mostly<br />
adolescent fans — and left 120<br />
injured at her May 22 Manchester,<br />
England, concert, the pop star set<br />
out to heal the heartbreak. With the<br />
help of manager Scooter Braun, the<br />
23-year-old recruited some of the<br />
music industry’s biggest stars — including<br />
Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus,<br />
Katy Perry and Coldplay — for<br />
her One Love Manchester benefit<br />
concert at England’s Emirates Old<br />
Trafford Cricket Ground. Taking<br />
the stage for the first time since<br />
the attack, an emotional Grande<br />
praised the 50,000 fans gathered in<br />
the sold-out arena: “I think the kind<br />
of love and unity you’re displaying is<br />
the medicine the world needs right<br />
now.” The dosage was just right. The<br />
three-hour show raised $13 million<br />
for victims of the attack and was a<br />
stirring display of resolve in the face<br />
of terror. “Evil will test us,” Braun<br />
told the crowd. “Fear will never<br />
divide us, because on this day, we all<br />
stood with Manchester.”<br />
CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: WENN; MEGA; GETTY IMAGES/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK;<br />
MEGA (2); KEVIN MAZUR/ONE LOVE MANCHESTER/GETTY IMAGES (3); REX/SHUTTERSTOCK<br />
54 | JUNE <strong>19</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
By Jamie Blynn / With reporting by Sara Kitnick
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