Today's Blind Items - Going Deep Out Of Pocket - Kindness - Anniversary Month

This singer has nearly gone broke multiple times because of his generosity. I first met him way back in the day. He was just becoming a star. In his corner of the entertainment world he is probably a permanent A lister. He is foreign born and a multiple Grammy Award nominee/winner. He came to the US illegally when he was a teen. Since he has made it big, he has taken certain causes under his wing. Yes, I used the word wing because it is the day before Thanksgiving. Also, it is holiday related. Thanksgiving included. Our singer noticed that some of his cousins never made it to holiday celebrations. The reason? The owners of farms treated Thanksgiving as a normal Thursday. They might take off slightly early, but it was still a Thursday and farming needed to be done. Enter our singer. he started meeting with farmers and discovered that about half the farmers would actually be willing to not work on Thanksgiving and other holidays but that the workers wanted to work because they needed the money. The farmers couldn't afford to pay for no work being done. The profit margins were too thin. So, our singer stepped in and paid the salaries for about 100 farm workers that year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. From those humble beginnings, he now not only pays for about 2500 farmers not to work those two days, he also spends tens of thousands of more dollars to buy them all meals for their families for each of those days.