Residente cancela dos festivales por su relación con el fondo KKR

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Resident cancels two festivals for their relationship with the KKR fund

The artist of Puerto Rico Resident He has announced the cancellation of his performances at the Benicàssim International Festival and in the Morriña Fest in A Coruña.

At the moment only the Spanish artist JUDELINE He had decided to cancel his performance at the FIB, Benicàssim International Festival, which will be held on July 17 to 19, but now it is added Residentwho was a member of Calle 13 and with an important solo career.

In fact, resident has made a statement in social networks in which he explains the reasons why he refuses to participate in two events indirectly financed by the US KKR fund. This is the FIB of Benicàssim and the Morriña Fest of A Coruña. “These last days I have been completely immersed in a script in which I am working while I was on tour, disconnected from many things and spending quality time with my son, which is really what fills my soul and helps me to recharge from the tours of exhaustion that they often bring. Thanks to my brother, who directs my social networks, I recently learned something that nobody from my team had the slightest idea. Researchers to verify it thoroughly. illegal settlements within the occupied Palestinian territories, thus contributing indirectly to the genocide and the systematic violations of human rights against the Palestinian people. I will not act in these festivals.

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