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Peru: Calle 13 antagonizes audience, then apologizes in its own controversial way
René “Residente” Pérez, lead singer of Latin Grammy-winning urban group Calle 13, performing Saturday night in Venezuela at the CECAL conference, a few hours before they performed in Peru to an angry crowd of more than 20,000 people. (Getty Images)
By SANDRO MAIRATA and NURIA NET
Channels: Entertainment, Latin American Affairs
“Those who want to leave, they can go to hell. Those who are staying –stay and enjoy. And if there’s anybody who wants to throw a bottle, jump onstage and we’ll meet up here.” That’s what singer René “Residente” Pérez told the crowd of 20,000 Peruvians who had been waiting for him and his Latin Grammy-winning group Calle 13 for more than 5 hours. The concert on Saturday night at Universidad de San Marcos stadium in Callao, a neighbor town of Lima, was supposed to start at 9pm but Calle 13 only got on stage at 3am, playing until the sun rose well past 5:30am.
According to Peru’s El Comercio, after local band La Sarita played an extended set starting at an already late 10pm, some started tracking Twitter and found the singer excusing himself for a delay in his flight from Venezuela. “Damn, René,” answered Sebastián Prieto, a member in the audience via Twitter, “hurry up because I’ve been standing here for 3 hours now.” Local promoters announced via speakerphone Calle 13 arrived around 2am, which increased booing; the band took an extra hour to set up.
The reason for the delay was that before arriving in Peru, Calle 13 performed that same night at the CECAL conference in Caracas alongside the Simón Bolívar Youth Symphony Orchestra (reprising their joint Latin Grammys performance). On stage in Caracas, Residente lamented that his native Puerto Rico was not invited to participate in the CELAC meeting since the island is a U.S. territory. “For next time, they should invite those who believe that Puerto Rico should be free… because we are also Latin Americans,” said Residente. “Don’t forget that this colony [Puerto Rico], came over here to remind you how beautiful this continent is, how beautiful Latin America is.”
