The City of Salamanca has canceled the concert of the rap group Los Chikos del Maiz scheduled for next January 10, considering that the lyrics of their songs are doing “advocacy of extreme violence”. The group has responded to the decision of the Consistory with the call for a performance that same day, in the sala Potemkim. The entries have already been exhausted.
The town hall in salamanca is paid to the musical group 500 euros, as collected in “one of the clauses of the contract” was already signed, reported Efe. The group announced on their social networks that will donate the compensation to the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory and calling it “censorship” the cancellation of his performance in Room B of the Center for the Performing Arts and Music (CAEM).
The controversy occurred at the end of December, when the Consistory of PP commissioned a legal analysis to suspend the concert of the rappers, after including them in the programming of the cultural center. In an appearance before the press by the mayor in salamanca, Carlos García Carbayo, emphasized when he began the process that “does not support neither the extremism nor the radicalismos”. Asked if did not know the letters of the group when he was hired, the mayor replied: “You see it’s not”.
In the last full municipal of the year, held on the 27th of December, the councillor for Culture, María Victoria Bermejo, acknowledged as “a mistake” to include a concert by the group in the programming of the Foundation of the Salamanca City of Culture and Knowledge to the first quarter of 2020. In his opinion, The Chikos of the Corn do “advocacy of extreme violence” in their song “allow messages that invite you to punch, to kick in the womb, or to the hanging”.
The training musical acts of all forms in the private room Potemkim, where you will be able to listen to those who had compared the 380 tickets for the initial concert. In addition, they were put on sale other 30 passes additional sold out after going on sale.
