Carlos Vives on a walk in Ponce

The Colombian singer Carlos Vives He is in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce this Saturday, the mayor of the Ciudad Señorial revealed on his social networks this Saturday.

Luis Irizarry published today an image of Vives and Ponce with the head of his cabinet, Luis Baez, and the director of tourism of the city, Iván Rodríguez.

“We were visited by Colombian singer Carlos Vives who stopped in front of the Mayor’s House to see the organization of the Ponceño Carnival”wrote the mayor of Ponce.

The Colombian artist and the Puerto Rican Ricky Martin They are recording a video on the Caribbean island of a song by the South American singer, as the Puerto Rican star’s representative office confirmed to Efe this week.

Local media had promoted the presence of both musicians in Puerto Rico and, starting with Old San Juan’s historic center, toured different parts of the Caribbean island’s geography to make recordings.

Ricky Martin showed a photo of himself on social networks this week asking his followers “a lot of encouragement,” although he gives no information about where he is or his professional activity.

The local press said earlier this week that the Colombian artist and his work team arrived in Puerto Rico on Wednesday to produce the video, which they assured they will direct. Carlos Perez, the Elastic People.

The video recording would include locations such as the beaches of Piñones, in the municipality of Loíza and other parts of the Puerto Rican capital’s metropolitan area.

The video is part of a project by the Colombian that was due to be released in March.

The two artists had planned to get together months ago to work on the project, but the situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic so far has kept this from happening.

The Colombian’s plans for 2020 include a great tour of Europe, but they were upset by Covid-19 and that of 2021 remains uncertain.

Carlos Vives was awarded Best Contemporary Album / Tropical Fusion for his album “Cumbiana” and Best Long Version Music Video for “El mundo perdidos de cumbiana” at the Latin Grammy Awards last November.

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