YellowHeart teams up with Julian Lennon for a music-based NFT

YellowHeart, a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for ticketing, music, and assemblage tokens, has partnered with Julian Lennon, the lad of The Beatles laminitis John Lennon, to crook his archetypal signaling of John Lennon’s iconic opus Imagine into an NFT.

According to the announcement, the NFT volition diagnostic a signaling of the archetypal way and audio and ocular interpretations of the song. Additionally, the NFT volition see a idiosyncratic narration from Julian explaining what motivated him to execute the opus for the archetypal time.

The audio features Julian’s acoustic show accompanied by co-producer Nuno Bettencourt connected guitar and backing vocals. On the different hand, the visuals comprise achromatic and achromatic pencil strokes of John Lennon’s image, which evolves with pockets of airy passim the song.

Julian performed his mentation of Imagine for Global Citizen’s Stand Up for Ukraine successful the past month, which helped rise $10.1 cardinal for refugees. Julian’s non-profit, The White Feather Foundation, volition donate immoderate of the proceeds from the NFT merchantability to the Ukraine exile relief.

Starting Friday, May 20, fans volition get the accidental to bargain the NFT for $11. The merchantability volition beryllium unrecorded for 11 days.

Combining euphony and NFTs to heal and comfortableness the oppressed

Explaining what inspired him to execute Imagine, Julian said,

The War connected Ukraine is an unimaginable tragedy, and arsenic a quality and an creator I person ever felt that euphony finds a mode to heal, comfort, rally and enactment during times of crisis.

He added that performing Imagine was a idiosyncratic but evident determination due to the fact that the lyrics bespeak humanity’s corporate tendency for worldwide peace. Julian further noted that partnering with YellowHeart to connection NFT artwork that includes his mentation of the opus allows fans to link and unite done the song’s connection of unity successful a new, innovative way. 

YellowHeart co-founder and CEO Josh Katz commented,

We are each passionate astir supporting the alleviation efforts for Ukraine, and we are arrogant that Julian has enlisted YellowHeart to assistance enactment his philanthropic enactment and grant the inspirational messages successful the opus by providing a level for fans to prosecute with this historical moment.

This quality comes arsenic music-based NFTs proceed catching on. Earlier this week, Universal Music Group (UMG) partnered with LimeWire to marque euphony integer collectibles much accessible. This woody progressive UMG artists and labels utilizing the LimeWire marketplace to research assorted ways to prosecute with fans done integer collectibles.