Juanes is dejected by the cancellation in full show of his concert in New York due to excess of public

Colombian singer Juanes He said this Thursday that he felt “a little upset” by the cancellation of his concert last night at the center park of NYdecided for security reasons when an unmanageable number of thousands of people gathered in the vicinity.

“What happened last night was frustrating,” The artist pointed out when assuring that they were very excited about the presentation in the Central Park as part of the Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC), a concert in which he would present the songs from his new album, “Daily Life”.

But he could only sing one song and in the second the Police ordered him to interrupt the show. “you have to go now”, he told him, arguing that the situation was out of control.

“I was super excited with the reaction of the people (after starting the concert)” before 5,000 people, according to data from the authorities and “I had no idea what was going on outside” where 12,000 people who had not been able to enter the SummerStage area, where summer concerts take place, were still trying to enter the area, he said.

Juanes, who participated today in a LAMC forum at a Manhattan hotel where he answered questions about his career but first told the details of his abortive New York concert.

“I didn’t understand anything but they explained to me that it was for security,” stated the singer-songwriter.

After the incident, the artist uploaded a video on his Twitter account explaining what happened. “Very sad because we could not finish our show, but I want you to know that security will always come first for us, above anything else,” he said in the tweet in which he also expressed his wish to “see them soon” .

It marked the first time in three decades that SummerStage had to cancel a concert due to issues unrelated to the weather, said executive director of the City Parks Foundation SummerStage, which organizes the summer concerts.

JUANES PLEASES HIS AUDIENCE WITH AN A CAPELLA SONG

Many of those attending the forum had been present yesterday in Central Park, and to compensate them, Juanes agreed to interpret a song, with a guitar that was provided to him by the public.

“What do you want to hear?”asked in the crowded room to get the answer “I ask God” that the public -mostly emerging artists and producers- sang with the Colombian, who finally interpreted another song to everyone’s liking.

Juanes spoke about various issues, including mental health, his daily routine, compositions and the stage in which his career temporarily stopped, and also announced that his guitar “Luna White” will be released next August.

“It gives me a lot of emotion and pleasure. My official guitar will come out with Fender. For me it’s a very big dream, I can’t believe it. When I came to this country in ’96, I barely had (money) to get on a bus and to go to the Guitar Center (musical instrument chain) I wanted to die”, remembered.

He also indicated that two years ago Fender invited him to do the guitar project, “which is called Luna White (one of his two daughters is called Luna) and is “to record, to play any type of music” and everything that Proceeds from the sale will go to Fundación Mi Sangre, which Juanes founded, and to Fundación Fender Play.

The “Juanes touch” on that guitar is that the microphones were calibrated to his style, to his liking. It’s how I like to play the guitar, very soft, very sweet, and to make it happen I work with two Colombian experts on the subject.