Double O (charity)

Double 'O' (Double 'O' Charity, Ltd.) is a charity established by the rock group The Who in 1976. Operation of the charity was assumed by Pete Townshend in 1983 when band initially retired from active touring. The trust disburses funds for such causes as relief of drug and alcohol addiction, domestic violence and sexual abuse. It also provides funds for music education, emergency disaster relief and young people's prison reform.

History

The primary objective of the trust is to make grants towards the relief of poverty, preservation of health and the advancement of education. Double 'O' was originally established to help fund the Chiswick women's refuges founded by family care activist Erin Pizzey. Later The Who performed concerts to benefit Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. After Townshend took over Double 'O' in 1983, he used it for support of drug rehab charities, the Prince's Trust and Rock Against Racism.

Townshend formed the band Deep End in 1985 and put on two charity concerts at the Brixton Academy through Double 'O' Promotions. In 1986 Double 'O' Productions put on the Columbian Volcano Relief Concert, and in 2000, the charity held an Internet auction to benefit the Mozambique Earthquake disaster. In 1999 the charity made a large donation to the Landsdowne House Alcohol Advisory Unit (The Chaucer Clinic in West Ealing). In 2005 The Who performed in New York City raising funds for Double 'O' as part of the children's charity event Four Seasons of Hope, sponsored by Samsung.

Double-O

Michael Aguilar, better known by his stage name Double O, is an Mexican & American producer and one half of the acclaimed hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall.

Life and career

Early life

Born in chicago Illinois, Double-0 was introduced to music early by his father who was also a DJ and a guitarist/singer in a band during his youth in Belize. Even though Michael Aguilar Sr. ended his music career in its infancy, his love for music was apparent and passed down to his sons. “Even when we didn’t have much money I can always remember there being a loud system in the house” says Double-O of his early years. “He was always concerned with having a proper sounding system in the house and later the car.” He later attended the University of Pennsylvania where he competed in track. Double-O is an accomplished track runner, having won multiple Ivy League championships and competing in the 2004 Olympics for Belize. While attending college he met classmate Jabari Evans, a rapper now known as Naledge. The two began working together and formed the hip-hop group Kidz in the Hall.

Double O

Double O may refer to:

Double O (Cyrillic)

"Double O" ⟨Ꚙ ꚙ⟩ is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is found in some early Old Church Slavonic manuscripts, where it is used in place of ⟨О⟩ in: двое "two"' обо "both"' обанадесять "twelve"' and двоюнадесять "twelve". The Cyrillic "double O" looks similar to the Latin-script double-o ligature: ⟨ꝏ⟩.

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