Birdy to sing for George Clooney at Deutscher Medienpreis in Baden-Baden

The 16-year-old will dedicate her global hit "People Help The People" to the Hollywood star and peace activist

Baden-Baden, 19.02.2013 - When George Clooney is awarded on 26 February 2013 in Baden-Baden, an exclusive group of guests from the business, political and media worlds will be waiting to welcome the American actor. Not only a large number of newspaper and magazine editors, but also executives from big industrial companies and the TV celebrities Günther Jauch and Thomas Gottschalk have accepted the invitation to attend as guests.

Birdy will be coming to Germany this year for the first time to give George Clooney a musical surprise. The 16-year-old British singer has scored a global hit with "People Help The People" and the song is currently among the best-selling singles in Europe and the United States.

Birdy would like to dedicate this rousing song to Clooney and, according to Warner Music Germany’s President Bernd Dopp, tell him "that he has touched and inspired young people with his initiative to help others".

Media Control has awarded the Prize since 1992 to outstanding personalities. Previous winners of the Prize have been Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Boris Yeltsin, King Hussein of Jordan, Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Gerhard Schröder, Rudolph Giuliani, Queen Silvia of Sweden, Queen Rania of Jordan, Kofi Annan, Hillary Clinton, Bono, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Sir Richard Branson.