Close-up of Fabio, taken during the Rockin'1000 concert in Cesena in 2023
Fabio Zaffagnini, the marine geologist who had never organized an event in his life before crowdfunding a thousand musicians to play Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly" in Cesena, Italy in 2015 — a viral video that launched a global movement of over 100,000 musicians. © Francopane, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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