{"id":26427,"date":"2025-04-13T22:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/rawayana-dedicates-gobi-stage-performance-to-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T22:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:39:29","slug":"rawayana-dedicates-gobi-stage-performance-to-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/rawayana-dedicates-gobi-stage-performance-to-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawayana Dedicates Gobi Stage Performance to Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I want any Venezuelan watching this to feel empowered, to know that there&#8217;s nothing that holds us back,&#8221; Beto Montenegro told the crowd<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Caracas band<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bomba-estereo-rawayana-astropical-tour-1235292848\/\"> Rawayana<\/a> had plans to tour in Venezuela recently. But when political turmoil <span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Cambria, serif\">\u2014<\/span>\u00a0and tension with the country\u2019s president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro <span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Cambria, serif\">\u2014<\/span>\u00a0forced them to cancel, the band suddenly had a new idea: They decided to dedicate their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/coachella-acts-to-see-1235312528\/\">Coachella set <\/a>on Saturday to their homeland and all the fans who have been supporting them. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rawayana y Akapellah - Veneka (Video Oficial)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pMF6Agux_Sg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cHonestly, we\u2019re scratching the itch after not being able to play in Venezuela,\u201d \u00a0vocalist Beto Montenegro told\u00a0<em>Billboard Espa\u00f1ol<\/em>\u00a0 in an interview. \u201cOur idea is to bring the Venezuelan Caribbean to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coachella\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coachella\" data-tag=\"coachella\">Coachella<\/a>. That\u2019s the concept of the show. And to dedicate this to all the people who couldn\u2019t see us in December.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAs the band took the Gobi stage at 11 p.m. on Saturday, it was clear just how seriously they\u2019d taken their mission. They had set up the stage to look like a beach in the city of La Guaira, and fans flocked over both drawn by the music and the creative visual set up. Opening with the smooth, feel-good track \u201cNada Malo,\u201d featuring Bebo Dumont, who helped the band immediately launch into party mode. From there, they had more surprise guests join them: Servando came onboard for \u201cLa Tormenta,\u201d and Puerto Rican artist Rafa Pabon linked up for \u201cMiel.\u201d (\u201cI want us to close our eyes and imagine a direct flight between Puerto Rico and Venezuela,\u201d Montenegro told the crowd.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFellow Venezuelan star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/danny-ocean-venezuela-interview-1235078200\/\">Danny Ocean<\/a> stopped by for \u201cBinikini,\u201d one of the highlights of the set. (In between, little vendors pretended to sell sunglasses and inflatables.) And throughout the set, Montenegro continued making calls back to anyone tuning in from home on YouTube, where the show was streamed. Just before they closed off with \u201cVeneka,\u201d featuring rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/akapellah-pedro-elias-interview-1235105934\/\">Akapellah<\/a>, they sent a final message of pride and strength: \u201cI want any Venezuelan watching this to feel empowered, to know that there\u2019s nothing that holds us back. There\u2019s nothing that fucking holds us back,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-latin\/coachella-2025-rawayana-1235316683\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want any Venezuelan watching this to feel empowered, to know that there&#8217;s nothing that holds us back,&#8221; Beto Montenegro told the crowd The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}