2009 Nobel Peace Prize There have been a number of calls for Obama to either return the award or to have the Nobel Committee recall it, most recently in 2013. In April 2013 a petition was begun asking the Nobel Committee to rescind the Peace Prize. The petition garnered 10,000 signatures in its first day and nearly 20,000 by the end of its first week. Nobel laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore called the award "extremely well deserved". Obama received congratulations and kind words from other elected officials, such as from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former rival, Senator John McCain, who
Nobel Peace Prize Concert Diana Ross on stage at the end of the show when/after she was singing Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand). The Grand Finale in 2009, sung by all the artists, was Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror". All artists performed Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" as the finale to the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Concert. All artists joined with Angélique Kidjo on the stage singing the song "Move On Up" as the finale to the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Concert. Much of the concert of 2014 will future / be influenced by Bollywood performances. One of the surviving Hibaku