The current lack of a salsa music pioneer is being mourned by followers of the style in all places — and that features Dangerous Bunny.
The red-hot Grammy winner, 31, simply took time throughout his newest live performance in São Paulo, Brazil, to hope tribute to Willie Colón, whose dying was confirmed earlier on Saturday, Feb. 21.
“Immediately, one of many legends who contributed to this stunning and legendary style handed away,” Benito is heard saying in Spanish in a fan-captured video on Instagram, per Billboard. “So, on behalf of myself and Los Sobrinos, we want Willie Colón peace. A lot power to his household. The inspiration of so many of those nice musicians who left their mark on this earth won’t ever die so long as there are proficient younger individuals like these right here, retaining the music, salsa and all Caribbean rhythms alive.”
View this put up on InstagramSaturday’s present marked the second of two nights Dangerous Bunny headlined Allianz Parque on his Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour. He heads to Sydney, Australia, subsequent week.
Information of Colón’s dying was confirmed in an announcement launched by his household. “Whereas we grieve his absence, we additionally rejoice within the timeless reward of his music and the cherished reminiscences he created that may dwell on perpetually,” the household shared on Colón’s Fb web page.
Born within the Bronx to Puerto Rican mother and father, Colón was behind dozens of albums, together with La Gran Fuga (The Huge Break) in 1970 and El Juicio (The Judgment) in 1972. Maybe his most influential album, Siembre (Snowing), was recorded and launched with Rubén Blades in 1978 and stays a landmark work in salsa music.
Earlier this week, Dangerous Bunny celebrated yet one more profession milestone when his track “DtMF” (quick for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”) hit No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart, marking an enormous second for the Puerto Rican celebrity’s solo profession.
The achievement got here on the heels of certainly one of music’s largest dwell phases: his Tremendous Bowl LX Halftime Present efficiency in Santa Clara, California.
