March 29, 2001 – On the heels of winning their first Grammy Award for "Rock Song of the Year," the members of Creed yesterday unveiled their new self-designed Hard Rock Cafe Signature Series T-shirt and pin which will benefit the With Arms Wide Open Foundation, an organization founded by lead singer Scott Stapp to assist underprivileged children and families. Each limited edition T-shirt and pin features an abstract image of a parent holding a child with arms wide open, Creed's logo and Stapp's signature. Creed's Hard Rock Cafe Signature Series T-shirt and pin are now available for a limited time at all Hard Rock Cafe locations in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Additionally, a select number of personally autographed shirts will be auctioned on www.hardrock.com to benefit the With Arms Wide Open Foundation. Founded by Creed frontman, Scott Stapp, the With Arms Wide Open Foundation seeks to fund organizations and groups dedicated to fostering and ensuring healthy, loving, nurturing bonds between children and their parents.

"Hard Rock shares our commitment to give something back to the community. The Signature Series partnership is designed not only to raise money for the With Arms Wide Open Foundation, but also generate awareness for the importance of supporting organizations that help build strong and healthy families," said Stapp.

Hard Rock Cafe created its Signature Series T-shirt line in 1990 to benefit various charities. For the T-shirt series, musicians and artists donate their original artwork, which are reproduced onto limited edition T-shirts to benefit the artist's nominated charity. To date, the Hard Rock Cafe Signature Series line has raised more than $4 million for a wide variety of organizations, such as Walden Woods, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Special Olympics and Riverkeeper. Artists who have donated a design for the series include Santana, Elton John, Peter Max, Don Henley, Sting and Aerosmith.

Creed have achieved phenomenal success with their first two releases, "My Own Prison" and "Human Clay" with combined sales of more than 13 million copies. They are the first band in history to have four #1 Rock Radio singles from a debut album and have amassed an impressive collection of awards including Billboard's Rock Artist of the Year in 1998.