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Marti has sold millions of albums worldwide and enjoyed multiple UK No 1 singles — including Love is All Around.

Marti said: "There's something really special about live music and that shared connection with the audience — especially when it's for Radio 2, who've supported me and my music over so many years."

Bordeaux president Laurent Marti's early and enthusiastic pitch won out.

It also operated as a mutual-aid project to feed people during the COVID-19 pandemic and as a nod to his parents: His father, who was an activist and student leader in El Salvador organizing with the Farabundo �Ѳ�����í National Liberation Front and his mother, a lawyer and former executive director at the Central American Resource Center.

Father Tony Marti from St. Francis High School in La Canada, where Stephan is a basketball player, had called earlier to offer prayers.