Andrés Calamaro left the stage during a show on Saturday 17 at the Cañaveralejo Arena Cali After receiving boos for his defense of bullfights. Precisely, the Colombian city of recently prohibited this activity. The singer made bullfighting gestures with his jacket as a crutch and dedicated his hit “skinny” to “bullfighters, ranchers, banderilleros and fans who are left without work” for the decision. But he did not receive the response he expected from the public, with more cool than applause, then he said “Sorry. They are canceled and blocked. Until ever”. And although he retired while his band was still playing, he returned a few minutes later to finish the song.
The next day, Andrés Calamaro The controversy continued through his Instagram accountwhere he wrote: “I do not know if fans are a majority in Colombia but neither is literature majority and at the moment there are no books and the library is still open. The cinemas claudicated in front of the platforms and the internet and it is not something to celebrate. Interestingly, the fans are decent and educated parents that we never mistreat animals, but LAnimals do not know how to do anything other than insult and desire bloody consequences for those who freely choose what to do with our time. Yes, the only reasoning they have is to insult. There is not much more to say. “
Then he explained what had happened in Cali: “Last night we gave the complete recital, I left two minutes on stage in an instrumental passage and we executed the 22 songs of the full repertoire. Cali never voted or referendo to close the square, this occurs with the complicity of the teenage ignorance of a minority and then they are political movements to weave alliances and add a majority. Colombia is bullfight as it is musical, it is traditional, culture, work and freedom. That will not change. Note the exquisite education of the arguments and then the infamous infamous violence that the animalist cowards left under their liar mantle of piety that hides an unforgivable selfishness and a clear disdain for the rights of the humble. ”
“It is possible that fans are a minority but we are in an era where the rights and freedoms of minorities are respected,” Calamaro continued. “Nor do I want to abuse the daring ignorance of those who do not know life outside the internet and barely pronounce themselves with words, centuries ago that support the existence of bullfighting and I was never increasing in the street, or once. I am not a bullfighter or an animals, but as like animals daily. Gastronomy is not perverse abuse, I warn if it is detachment from the Nazi animalist towards citizens and not favor of a fantasy even absurd for Walt Disney. Of course, in pack and barely spinning two words, they dare everything but in person they have no dignity to tell me anything. Finally I just regretted being in a bullring without bullsand I am solidarity with the people who run out of work in the field and in the square. “
Calamaro arrived at Cali as part of the 2025 Agenda tour, with which he already had presentations in Buenos Aires (the most recent, in the Quilmes Rock) and other Argentine cities. And he has just announced that he will sing again in the Movistar Arena Porteño, with a new repertoire: it will be the days November 25 and 26and will be accompanied by German Wiedemer, Julián Kanevsky, Mariano Domínguez, Andrés Litwin and Brian Figueroa, plus the newly incorporated winds of Andrés Ollari and Pablo Fortuna. The input For shows they will put themselves on sale Thursday 22 at 16 Through www.movistararena.com.ar.
