A Change Is Gonna Come has come to America." A duet of the song by Bettye LaVette and Jon Bon Jovi was included in . In Washington DC, in the days leading up to the Inauguration of Barack Obama, this song could be heard played constantly in the city centre. In 2004, Patti LaBelle performed the song on the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert to a standing ovation. Julian Casablancas, lead singer of popular rock band The Strokes, has cited "A Change Is Gonna Come" as his favorite song of all time. In 2009, Aaron Neville, along with the Mt. Zion Mass Choir, released a
Julian Casablancas forming what is now known as The Voidz. Though the band's sound has not always been well received, The Voidz aim to “bridge the gap” between music that is both aggressive and complex. They share the goal of “representing things unseen” and "exploring [music] from the margins”, as Jake [Bercovici] has said. Inspired by the complex nature of Middle Eastern music scales, Casablancas claims to be more interested in “the in between notes” than the traditional 7 note scale of Western music. The band is bound by a mutual love for powerful music that does not gain much attention in