FireAid concert: Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga lead music's biggest stars in Los Angeles benefit show

Billie Eilish and Green Day kicked off FireAid, a performance benefiting victims of the devastating fires which afflicted Los Angeles earlier this month. 

Numerous blazes broke retired crossed the portion astatine the commencement of the month, tearing done thousands of acres and destroying businesses and the homes of longtime residents and celebrities alike. 

The decease toll of the fires has present reached 29.  

While the fires are mostly contained now, the roadworthy to betterment for galore is lone present conscionable beginning. 

Eilish and Green Day are conscionable 2 of the large names scheduled to execute this evening, with Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder among the different megastars.  

Green Day started disconnected the amusement with Eilish for a rendition of Last Night On Earth earlier they continued connected without her for Still Breathing and When I Come Around. 

Billy Crystal past appeared connected signifier to recall the harrowing communicative of losing his location successful the Palisades fire, fleeing the location with the apparel helium was wearing connected stage, and his affectional instrumentality to his burnt down property. 

Alanis Morrissette than deed the stage, starting disconnected with Hand In My Pocket followed by Thank You. 

The adjacent performer was Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals, who started disconnected their acceptable with Put Me Thru followed by Come Down.

They brought up astonishment performer, Dr. Dre, for Still D.R.E. and California Love. 

Music fable Joni Mitchell was the adjacent performer, opening her acceptable with Both Sides Now.  

Eilish and Gaga are among the galore musicians performing astatine tonight's concert, which is being held astatine 2 venues - the Kia Forum and Intuit Dome successful LA's Inglewood neighborhood. 

Proceeds volition spell to the victims of the unprecedented wildfires that blazed done the metropolis successful the archetypal weeks of the New Year. 

On apical of Eilish and Gaga, the billing boasts the biggest names successful music.

Earth, Wind & Fire, Gracea Abrams, Jelly Roll, Katy Perry, Lil Baby, Olivia Rodrigo, Peso Pluma, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Sting, and Tate McRae volition beryllium joining Eilish and Gaga astatine the Intuit Dome.

Meanwhile, astatine the Kia Form, Alanis Morissette, Anderson .Paak, Dawes, Graham Nash, Green Day, John Fogerty, Joni Mitchell, No Doubt, P!nk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stephen Stills, Stevie Nicks, John Mayer, and The Black Crowes are acceptable to deed the stage.

Dave Matthews was primitively scheduled to execute with Mayer but had to cancel 'a captious unwellness successful the family.'

'Contributions made to FireAid successful transportation with the FireAid payment performance and different nonstop donations volition beryllium distributed nether the advisement of the Annenberg Foundation and volition beryllium distributed for short-term alleviation efforts and semipermanent initiatives to forestall aboriginal occurrence disasters passim Southern California,' according to the FireAid website. 

'The Annenberg Foundation, with decades of philanthropic enactment successful our community, including accelerated response, volition assistance coordinate a squad to nonstop funds for the top impact.'

Additionally, merchandise designed by creator Yoshitomo Nara volition beryllium disposable for purchase, with nett proceeds going towards FireAid's wildfire alleviation efforts.

Viewers volition perceive from celebrities and non-celebrities alike, including those straight impacted by the disaster. 

'Our speakers volition beryllium radical that mislaid their homes successful the fires. People from Altadena, radical from Palisades, radical from neighboring areas,' enforcement shaper Joel Gallen of Tenth Planet told AP.

'We´re going to person packages, which is astir some the radical that mislaid their homes and besides the firefighters and the archetypal responders,' Gallen continued.

A firefighter is slated to talk astatine the concert, and thousands of archetypal responders are acceptable to beryllium successful attendance.

'There are astatine slightest 2,000 seats going to archetypal responders, firemen, policemen and radical that person mislaid their homes,' Irving Azoff, who is producing the event, said. Corporate sponsors person stepped successful to supply seats to victims who mislaid their homes successful the blazes arsenic well.

The amusement tin beryllium accessed via a assortment of streaming platforms, including Max and Prime Video.

'100% of each proceeds are going to assistance rebuild,' Gallen said.

Celebrities and moving people residents alike are picking up the pieces aft their neighborhoods were reduced to ash arsenic wildfires began tearing done the city. 

More than 100,000 residents were forced to evacuate their homes as a effect of the firestorms, which began connected the greeting of January 7.

The devastation began erstwhile the operation of dense upwind and a deficiency of rainfall created the cleanable information for a brushwood fire.

The Eaton Fire burned implicit 14,000 acres portion the Palisades Fire tore done astir 24,000 acres. They are some approaching 100% containment. 

Paris Hilton, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, were among the celebrities who mislaid their homes successful the Palisades Fire. 

The Hilton heiress has since launched an exigency fund, starting with $100,000 donation to different victims. 

On apical of her ain contribution, she has said she volition lucifer 'additional dollars raised up to $100,000 more.'