The Cuban group Los Van Van announced this Saturday that they will continue the tour they are currently doing in the United States, despite thesudden death on stage on Friday by bassist, guitarist and composer Juan Carlos Formell Alfonso.
After confirming the news of the musician's death during the concert held on Friday night at the Lehman Center in New York, the orchestra known as "the salsa train" in Cuba said that it will continue the tour, with which "we will be paying tribute to Juan Carlos in every presentation, in every musical note, in every Vanvanero choir as Juanca would have wished.
"Everyone who ever knew them knows how special they were as a human being, as a professional and as a musician. We are all destroyed by this news. We are happy that their last moments were on stage giving everything for our music, for our family, for Los Van Van and for their fans," says the statement, published on Facebook.
The 59-year-old musician suffered a heart attack in the middle of the show. A video recorded during this Friday's concert shows the moment in which the musician leaves his instrument and the stage, just before disappearing between the side curtains, collapses to the ground and has to be helped by support staff.
Formell Alfonso was born in Havana in 1964 and lived in New York since 1993; A few years ago he began to be the bassist of Los Van Van, the group thatfounded and directed by his father, the maestro Juan Formell.
The group is on a tour of the United States that will include performances in San Francisco, California, in addition to the one already held in New York.
At the beginning of May, it was announced that they will lead this year the celebration of the traditional San Francisco Carnival 2023, which takes place this last weekend of May.
The emblematic group has two concerts planned for this same May 27 in the Californian city: at the carnivals and at the Roccapulco Club.
The last performance in this stage will be on July 28 in San Diego, also in California.
In June and early July they will be playing in several European countries such as Spain, Switzerland, Germany, among others, before returning to the United States again.
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