With the arrival of the PP-Vox coalition in the governments of different cities, the censorship of cultural shows. A censorship against which numerous artists are mobilizing and that has led the singer-songwriter Rayden to make a drastic decision: cancel his last concert, which he had planned to give in his hometown, Alcalá de Henares.
Since I announced that retires from the world of music few months ago, Rayden has been preparing what will be his final tour and he wanted to close it with a farewell concert in Alcalá de Henares. But the arrival of the extreme right to the institutions of this town has truncated his plans, due to a “moral duty” that has to do with “not going along with the same hand that promotes and monetizes hatred.”
This is how the singer himself explained it in a statement addressed to his fans, where he says that for him concerts are a “meeting point”, a place where music acts as a “dialogue” and in which everyone has a place, since they have come held in “rooms free of sexist violence and spaces where the LGTBI+ collective felt safe“.
“I have tried to make songs that talk about respect, self-esteem, mental health, reciprocity, equity, feminism, integration, immigration, love in all its forms…”, he says Rayden in this release.
Therefore, before the censorship and cultural cancellation that punish art in localities with the same representation as in Alcalá de Henares (with a PP and Vox government after the May 28 elections), and out of a “moral duty”, has decided to cancel this performance that would have taken place end of August 2024.
“I am deeply sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but my conscience would not leave me alone if it were from the same hand that promotes and profits from hatredwhich ‘sends the LGTBI+ collective to the trash, who votes against the trans law, who sees them, along with the immigrant population, as third-class citizens deprived of the same rights as the rest,” reads the letter.
Thus, Rayden’s last performance in the Community of Madrid will take place on December 2, 2023 at the Wizink Center.
Source: Lasexta
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