Juanes and more
than one million with white shirts for peace
COLOMBIAN Juanes arrived on the stage of the
Peace without Borders concert via his own initiative.
He was received with an ovation and the unrestrained
enthusiasm of young people for whom the sun was no
obstacle (and thanks for the afternoon clouds).
Impossible for it to begin in any other way:
Havana heard live his emblematic A Dios le pido
and the Colombian had a matchless chorus of 1.150
million people, as announced by Spaniard Miguel Bosé.
Juanes told the public that he couldn’t believe
what he was seeing and affirmed that the concert is
"the most beautiful dream of peace and love after my
children."
A cluster of themes, pop rock, naturally, and
ballads, until he came to La camisa negra
sung, of course, by everybody in the Plaza de la
Revolución, followed by It’s time to change (hate
for love…) with Bosé.
The duo also performed Nada particular (Sing
and fly free like the dove sings…)
As is evident from his beginnings, in a number of
his songs (La Tierra, Fijaté bien, ¿Qué pasa?,
Sueños, and more recently with themes like
Minas Piedras, Bandera de Manos and Odio por
Amor), Juanes is not indifferent to social
problems in the world and, in particular, in his
native Colombia.
Juanes, who lives in the United States, has been
voted by the U.S. People magazine as "the
most outstanding Latin rock figure in the last
decade."
The Colombian has won 17 Latin Grammys and one
Anglo Grammy, among other music prizes.
Juanes convened no less than 1.150 million people,
the majority of them youth, to peace in Havana’s
Plaza de la Revolución and they have responded to
him "Yes!"
