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Bruce Springsteen lends his voice, and a song, to a Biden ad

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Bruce Springsteen lends his voice, and a song, to a Biden ad

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 08, 2020 Singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen attends the 2020 National Board Of Review Gala in New York City. - The Boss got the band back together for his 20th studio album out October 23, 2020, a work that sees the ever-reflective Bruce Springsteen converse with his past selves while meditating on his own mortality. Springsteen's album "Letter to You" fits neatly into his canon, a return to the layered guitars, dramatic percussion and glockenspiel that swelled into the signature sound he coined with his E Street Band, the group he's performed with since 1972. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)

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In August, Springsteen grants permission for the Biden campaign to use his song 'The Rising' as background music to a video shown at the opening of the Democratic National Convention
Bruce Springsteen lends his voice, and a song, to a Biden ad

American rock star Bruce Springsteen is lending his voice and one of his songs to a campaign ad for Joe Biden, underlining his support for the Democratic candidate just three days before the Tuesday election.

It will not be the first time the iconic singer/songwriter has shown his support for the former vice president.

In August, Springsteen granted permission for the Biden campaign to use his song “The Rising” as background music to a video shown at the opening of the Democratic National Convention.

He has publicly lashed Trump as a “threat to our democracy.” 

In narrating the campaign ad, which airs for the first time Saturday, Springsteen talks about Biden’s blue-collar roots in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a battleground state likely to play a crucial role in the election.

“Scranton, Pennsylvania,” the “Boss” says on the video. “Here, success isn’t handed down. It’s forged with sweat, grit, and determination.”

It was a barely veiled allusion to Donald Trump, whose millionaire father gave him a substantial chunk of his fortune.

“This place stays with him, these streets are part of him,” the 71-year-old singer says of Biden. “This is more than where he’s from, it is who he is for.”

The message, to be broadcast Saturday evening during a college football game, ends to the swelling sounds of “My Hometown,” from what is probably Springsteen’s most famous album, “Born in the USA.”  – Rappler.com

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