U2, whose members include Bono and the Edge, committed during the event to donating $1 million to the relief efforts. Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO and current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and his wife, Connie, also pledged to match that donation and all donations made during the live broadcast of FireAid.

FireAid, featuring Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others in a fundraiser for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts, is the latest event to combine music and philanthropy.

One of the great challenges faced by the events during Grammy Week, including the FireAid benefit, is how to set the proper tone: How do you have a celebratory event like big concert or awards show without seeming tone-deaf to the tragedy and loss so many suffered in the Los Angeles wildfires that ravaged the