Latinx Stars Will #RiseUpAsOne to Play Mexico Border Agence France-Presse
go to original October 6, 2016

RiseUp As One is an event to celebrate who we are and the way we live (RiseUp As One)

Leading Spanish-language US network Univision has announced that the “RiseUp As One” concert will take place on October 15 at the Cross Border XPress, the walkway that connects San Diego and Tijuana’s airport.

Artists to play the live-broadcast concert include Colombian superstar Juanes, leading Mexican pop singers Natalia Lafourcade and Julieta Venegas, Spanish pop star Alejandro Sanz and veteran Colombian performer Carlos Vives.

The lineup will also include rising US soul singer Andra Day, a protegee of Stevie Wonder, who is from San Diego.



The concert will not be overtly partisan but comes shortly before the November 8 presidential election, in which Republican candidate Donald Trump has railed against immigration.

Trump has vowed to build a wall along the US-Mexican border and launched his campaign by describing undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States as rapists.

“The US-Mexico border provides the perfect stage for this amazing event and is a way to highlight diversity and inclusion, despite borders,” said Camila Jimenez Villa, co-president and chief content officer of the Fusion Media Group, Univision’s English-language division aimed at millennials.

The concert “will celebrate, through the power of music, the connectedness of our world and the positivity that occurs when we show empathy, respect and openness to one another,” she said in a statement.

...Univision, which earlier announced the concert without giving details on location or performers, said it would broadcast live starting at 4 p.m. California time (2300 GMT).

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