About Yank Barry Yank Barry is a World-renowned philanthropist, former kingsmen lead singer and Nobel prize nominee. He is the founder of Charity Global Village Champions Foundation and VitalPro Foods Inc. He is a famous Canadian businessman, singer, writer, composer, arranger, producer, publishera and executive.

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Global Village Champions Foundation’s Yank Barry
joins the RT Academy!
We’re happy to announce that Yank Barry (@YankBarry), Chairman and Founder of Global Village
Champions Foundation, has joined the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences!
Yank is a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee who enjoyed 30 years in the music industry as a singer,
composer, arranger, producer and publisher. Yank’s philanthropic efforts have now expanded from feeding the
hungry around the world to freeing and caring for refugees who escaped terror in Syria, Iraq and Iran. We’re so
excited to have him on our board!
Learn more about Yank below!
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2. Yank Barry is a philanthropist, musician and food entrepreneur.
Yank, along with his friend and partner Muhammad Ali and his wife, Yvette, have fed over a BILLION meals
to the lost and forgotten worldwide through Global Village Champions Foundation. Yank is a three-time Nobel
Peace Prize nominee who enjoyed 30 years in the music industry as a singer, composer, arranger, producer and
publisher. Yank’s philanthropic efforts have now expanded from feeding the hungry around the world to
freeing and caring for refugees who escaped terror in Syria, Iraq and Iran. His work has been profiled on CNN
and NBC News and written about by The Jerusalem Post, Reuter’s and many other news outlets around the
world.

3. He is chairman of Vitapro, a leader in soy and the makers of ProPectin, which protects against the cancerous
effects of radiation exposure