Featherweight cancels its presentation at the Viña del Mar 2024 Festival and its tour of Latin America

Hassan Emilio Kabande Laija, known as Featherweight, singer of corridos tumbados, canceled its presentation at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival 2024, which will take place between Sunday, February 25 and Friday, March 1 at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater, in the Chilean city of Viña del Mar, Valparaíso Region. This was made known by the production of this prestigious festival through a statement published on social networks. “Doble P” also canceled its Latin American tour.

“Featherweight announced that he will not be able to appear at the contest this March 1, as planned. According to the information provided by his team, the artist will cancel his entire Latin American tour, including the Viña del Mar Festival“. The production of Viña 2024 also shared the message sent by the Mexican singer's office, “we are sorry to inform you that due to personal reasons, Peso Pluma will not perform at the concerts/festivals scheduled in Viña del Mar, Lima (Peru) and Asunción (Paraguay), we hope to be able to return to these territories soon to give them what they deserve.”

Instead of Peso Pluma, the Argentine singer María Becerra will perform on March 1 at the LXIII International Song Festival of Viña del Mar. “The trans-Andean, which surpasses all records, will open the day on March 1, while the Argentine artist Trueno (Mateo Palacios Corazzina) joins the closing grid of the contest, who since 2016 has become a phenomenon musical in Latin America”.

Viña 2024 production reported that People who have purchased tickets for the Peso Pluma presentation and wish to return their tickets may do so through puntoticket (puntoticket.com/devoluciones)starting this Friday, February 23 at noon and for the next 72 hours.

Until now, Peso Pluma has not commented anything about the cancellation of his concert in Viña del Mar. let's remember last January, Francisco Vidal, President of the Board of Directors of TVN (National Television of Chile)the public television network that will broadcast the festival, announced that was in talks with the channel's Executive Director, Alfredo Ramírez, to analyze whether or not “Doble P” should be presented at Viña 2024.

This arose from the fact that Alberto Manfredo Mayol MirandaChilean sociologist, political analyst, political scientist, politician and university academic, He published a column in the newspaper BioBioChile titled: “Featherweight in Viña: Sometimes you have to listen to the voice of the drug trafficker”in which mentions that the Mexican singer has alleged links to organized crime.

“A promoter of narco culture will go up on stage (and we must all pretend that we are before an artist). Perhaps the entertainer will choose another way to present it. Perhaps the entertainer will say, repeating the text with which the official account of the Viña del Mar Festival already introduced Featherweight'with you, the artist who will make you feel the true essence of Mexican music.'”

Alberto Manfredo Mayol Miranda described Peso Pluma as an “artist” who defends drug trafficking“the one who (it is assumed in Mexico) has worked for drug traffickers, who unscrupulously names them in his songs, who systematically talks about weapons and the use of them, the one who talks about how much women with small waists are worth, the claimant of the big names of historical drug trafficking. There are songs that would have been commissioned by specific cartels, the most referred to being the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG). Although apparently the case of Peso Pluma is special, since it would have worked with the two main cartels (rivals to death): the aforementioned CJNG and the Sinaloa Cartel”. It is unknown if this controversy had to do with the cancellation of his presentation..

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