News: 25-hour Dubai ‘singathon’ to be staged for Philippines’ typhoon Haiyan victims

Twenty-five hours of non-stop singing and playing the guitar and the piano — all without pausing for food, water or sleep.

This is what Dubai-based singer-philanthropist Glenn Perry has set out to do on Thursday night at the Arabian Courtyard Hotel for Typhoon Haiyan victims in the Philippines.

The typhoon flattened communities in the central Philippines and killed at least 5,600 people on November 8.

“I will put myself through a lot of torture but that is just minuscule compared to the pain and suffering they’ve gone through. They’ve lost their money, family, children, their entire livelihood,” Perry told Gulf News upon his return from a 10-day relief work effort in the central Philippines.