The “King of Bachata” spoke, but without cell phones or recordings, with the Dominican press that accompanied him to the four presentations of his tour in Peru
He has just made history and he hardly believes it. He is proud. No other artist had ever managed to sell four parties in a row in Peru. “And that the businessman wanted a fifth date.” She turns to him who is a few steps away and asks: “How many more dates could we have endured?” “One more, the fifth,” replied Jano, the president of Tropic Music, the production company of the tour in Peru.
Romeo talked long and hard, but without cell phones or recordings, with the press that accompanies him to the four presentations of his tour in Peru. The meeting took place on the afternoon of Monday, February 13, in a large room of an important hotel in the Peruvian capital.
In response to an elCaribe question, related to the reality of international tours for which artists must psychologically prepare and which mean a significant amount of energy at stake, does he take a little time for himself, even a couple of hours, in which he gets to know The author of Obsession acknowledged important sites in the city that he visits: “Thinking about it, it is something that I should do and that I don’t do; although it is something that also has to do with my shyness and the need to not be teaching myself. In other words, manage the outings to generate more need for people to want to see me, ”he said.
“At home my family calls me Tony,” he drops. “But I’m Anthony, that you see up there is Romeo, a character,” she says with conviction. “If it were up to me, I wouldn’t do interviews, although I recognize how important it is,” he clarifies. “I am essentially shy. They do not know the work that gave me at the beginning to stand on stage. The first times I did it looking down and Lenny told me to look at the public, ”he narrated.
Shyness will be mentioned again at least three more times during the conversation where she felt at home.
Another question – comment from elCaribe had to do with the young man who got up to sing with him, and at the end he said “I am a man, but I love you”. And the way he got out from under “that lout.”
“I am not homophobic. They have raised us very macho and that is not right. I have four children and I raised them without those ties of the machismo that prevails in our world today, ”he said. Later he referred to the fact that “everything is in the upbringing that you give your children and your responsibility as a father.” He remembers that his told him “Tony, don’t come here with drugs or traffic.” And her mother told her sisters never to prostitute themselves.
“I live in a constant process of creation. I live composing 365 days a year. My life is very simple when I’m not on tour. If it were up to me, I would wear the same clothes all the time. I am Anthony, the character you see up there is Romeo and Romeo likes to dress up for his fans,” he declares.
The last of the questions had to do with the death in Santiago de los Caballeros, at the hands of a police officer, of the child Donelly Joel Martínez, he regretted the fact and said he felt concerned about the deaths that occur due to police abuse, not only in the Republic Dominican Republic, but throughout the world, and he mentioned the particular case of the United States.
He expressed his conviction that it is unusual that there are police officers without the capacity or academic preparation to handle stressful situations that can cause victims.
In the middle of the meeting, he received representatives from Sony Peru who gave him a Gold Album recognition, certification for reproductions on all Formula Vol 3 platforms. One more reason to be proud.
