A reggaeton festival in Madrid (Spain), in which the Puerto Rican star of the genre daddy yankee was going to inaugurate his farewell tour, it was canceled a few hours after starting due to lack of permissionorganizers and regional authorities reported this Friday.
“After days and days without sleeping (…) to adapt to a new venue (…) finally the institutions have decided that more than 40,000 people are left without living this historic milestone today,” the organizers said in a statement. of Pure Reggaeton Festival at noon on Friday, just hours before opening doors.
The organizers, who will refund the amount of the tickets, apologized to the thousands of people who “have been waiting for months and making plans to attend a historical event of undeniable cultural interestas is the farewell to Latin music legend Daddy Yankee.”
The first concert of the final tour of the performer of hits like “Gasoline” and “Easy”, who this year announced that he was retiring from the stage, It was the highlight of this festivalwhich was to take place this Friday and Saturday at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in the Spanish capital.
The regional government of Madrid announced this Friday in a statement that denied permission to carry it out whenever “the plan presented by the organization (…) does not meet in any case the necessary security requirements”.
Given the high demand for tickets to see daddy yankeethe organizers moved the festival from the Caja Mágica, a smaller venue, to the Wanda Metropolitano, but it was only last Monday when they requested the new permit, when “For this type of event, the minimum application period is one month.according to Madrid.
Daddy Yankee plans to perform on Saturday at a Latin music festival in Torremolinos (Andalusia, south), which will now be the first concert of his farewell world tour, which closes in December in Miami, United States.
The tour will also have four stops in Colombia. The artist’s foray around the country starts on October 7, 2022 in calli, then moved to Bogota with three dates on the 8th, 9th and 12th of the same month. Afterwards, the tour will reach Barranquilla on the 14th. Finally, Yankee will say goodbye to the country in Medellín with two presentations on October 15 and 16.
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