The singer Rocío Saiz is in the media spotlight after denouncing through her social networks the interruption of her concert at the Pride of Murcia this Saturday at the hands of the authorities. As the artist recounts on her Twitter profile, the police interrupted her performance at the moment she took off her shirt and showed her breasts. Everything happened during her performance of Como yo te amo, and this complaint has generated a stir on social platforms.
The artist was willing to sing her song and show her breasts in front of the public, something that she says she has been doing “for 10 years” and that would never have been a cause for conflict… until now. According to the also activist, she would have committed “exaltation of order, exhibitionism and contempt for authority.” “Oh, they stop me!” The singer expressed when part of her team took the stage to ask her to cover her chest with the flag of the LGBTIQ collective.
The public that was in the Cardenal Belluga square enjoying the concert began to boo to demonstrate their rejection of the artist’s censorship, while shouts of “freedom” were heard, demonstrating their support for the singer. “If I don’t cover myself, they take me to jail, so I’m going to cover myself,” Saiz told the audience, who ended the performance with his shirt on.
The denunciation of the facts was not left alone on the stage. At the end of the concert, Saiz published a statement on his social networks in which he regretted what had happened. “I wish I didn’t have to write this again. At Mrucia’s pride, in the same song as always, where I’ve taken my shirt off for 10 years, the police stopped the concert. They wouldn’t let me continue if I didn’t get dressed. Or I put my shirt on or handcuffed me,” he said.
The artist of themes such as Let yourself go or Self-censorship, affirms that she dressed out of “respect for the public” and assures in her statement that when she was going to leave a national police officer asked her for documentation. “The public and the organization have put themselves in the middle. Mane and Any have not been allowed to enter the dressing room for our things if they did not speak to the inspector. Book coercion. I obviously refused,” she explains.
“Having millions of followers does not make you influential, having podcasts does not make you an activist, having awards without leaving home does not make you a collective. Enough posturing, what we are left with is hell. I have tried to be less radical to to be able to have a job, but for what”, he sentenced on Twitter.
On the other hand, the activist denounces that the inspector would have recognized that she would not have been involved in that situation if she were a man. “Because if a man does it, it’s not illegal,” says Rocío, visibly upset. The artist has been totally dejected after this situation, and she claims to feel tired of fighting for her rights. In addition, this is the second time that the singer has faced a problem of this type in the Region of Murcia.
It all happened at the Bside festival in Molina de Segura, in 2018. His performance, as a member of the group ‘Las chillers’, received criticism from the Popular Party, which described it as a “profane and shameful show”. The group’s representatives regretted that a political party shared tweets “branding the concert as erotic.” Now history repeats itself for Saiz, who has shown herself married to fighting.
