"Adam Kidron" is a British-born ex-music producer, serial entrepreneur, and the ex-Chief Executive Officer of Urban Box Office (UBO), a reggaeton and urban culture/urban Latino record label based in New York City. He is currently a managing partner of 4food, a food company launched in New York in 2009. Kidron is also the President of 4FOOD4LIFE Inc, a non-profit organization. Kidron is currently under the public eye within various tech blogs over the failure of Beyond Oblivion and the Boinc platform.

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It's just not a big thing. It's like the secretary said, the anthem has been done in country, in hip hop. We wanted to give people a way of demonstrating their desire to want to be Americans.

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It's the one thing everybody has in common, the aspiration to have a relationship with the United States . . . and also to express gratitude and patriotism to the United States for providing the opportunity.

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It has the passion, it has the respect, it has all of the things that you really want an anthem to have and it carries the melody.

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We chose to record The Star-Spangled Banner to show our solidarity with the undocumented immigrants and their quest for basic civil rights, as well as to say thank you for their contribution to our comfort and our dreams.

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