Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor is partnering up with American actor Robert Downey Jr. for an unlikely musical duet – as part of an upcoming charity project.
The Nothing Compares 2 U singer and the Iron Man star will join Sting, Jonathan Davis, Serj Tankian and Jon Anderson, among the artists participating in the anti-nuclear album The Prayer Cycle 2: Path to Zero.
O’Connor and Downey will be performing a song called Fallout, based upon a poem written by The Doors frontman Jim Morrison shortly before his death in 1971.
"I went to the family through their attorneys and told them about this project, and they agreed to license it. Being a Jim Morrison fan, I was pretty excited about it," said American composer Jonathan Elias, who is producing the album.
The Prayer Cycle 2: Path to Zero is a follow-up to Elias’s 1999 record The Prayer Cycle.
All proceeds from the new album will go to anti-nuclear campaign Global Zero, an international initiative promoting the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
Founded in Paris in 2008, the organization has several notable signatories, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Russian politician Mikhail Gorbachev, and Canadians Lloyd Axworthy, Romeo Dallaire, Douglas Roche and Jeffrey Skoll.