More Than 20 Injured in Ferris Wheel Fire at Highfield Music Festival in Germany

At least 23 people were injured when two gondolas of a Ferris wheel caught fire at a music festival near Leipzig in eastern Germany, the German news agency dpa reported Sunday (Aug. 18).

The accident took place at the Highfield Festival at Lake Strömthal near Leipzig.

The fire started in one gondola and then spread to a second one on Saturday night, local police said. The operator of the Ferris wheel told dpa that no passengers were sitting in the gondola in which the fire started.

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Details in a statement from police in the state of Saxony said 65 people received medical care and 16 were transported to hospitals for further treatment, including four with burn injuries and one with an injury from a fall. None of the injured were in life-threatening condition on Saturday.

Police posted an update on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday regarding their investigation into the cause of the Ferris wheel fire.

“After the fire, investigators were deployed and an initial assessment was made. By means unknown, material underneath the Ferris wheel caught fire. As a result, the fire spread to a gondola. The investigation is still ongoing,” the statement said.

German rapper Ski Aggu was performing on the festival stage during the incident; in an Instagram Story, Aggu said he was dismayed and in shock.

His statement, translated from German to English, said he was told via his earpiece to continue his performance in an effort to avoid a mass panic situation in the crowd.

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Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets Department’ Hits 15th Week Atop Billboard 200

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department reaches a 15th week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated Aug. 24) — tying Carole King’s Tapestry for the third-most weeks at No. 1 among albums by women. The latter spent 15 frames at No. 1 in 1971. Only Adele’s 21 (24 weeks in 2011-12) and the Whitney Houston-led soundtrack to The Bodyguard (20 weeks in 1992-93) have more weeks at No. 1 among women.

Tortured Poets earned 85,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 15 (down 40%), according to Luminate.

Meanwhile, in a quiet top 10 (where no albums debut for the second time in three weeks), Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess hits a new peak for the third week in a row, as it climbs 3-2 with 72,000 units (up 13%), a new weekly high, by units, for the set.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Aug. 24, 2024-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Aug. 20. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.

Of The Tortured Poets Department’s 85,000 units earned in the week ending Aug. 15, SEA units comprise 57,000 (down 1%, equaling 74.77 on-demand official streams of the set’s widely available deluxe edition’s 31 songs), album sales comprise 28,000 (down 67%) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum (up 5%). On the Top Streaming Albums chart, Poets falls 2-3 and on the Top Album Sales chart, it clocks an eighth week at No. 1.

With Tortured Poets — Swift’s longest-leading album on the Billboard 200 — she adds her 84th career week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, extending her record among soloists. (Elvis Presley has the second-most among soloists, with 67.) The total encompasses her 14 No. 1 albums. (She’s tied with Jay-Z for the most No. 1s among soloists.)

In the tracking week of Aug. 9-15, news continued to emerge from the foiled terror attack on Swift’s cancelled Eras Tour dates in Vienna. The three Vienna dates (Aug. 8-10) were nixed on Aug. 7 and were the first cancelled shows of the tour, which began on March 17, 2023. On Aug. 15, the tour continued on to its scheduled five-night stand at London’s Wembley Stadium (Aug. 15-17, 19-20), for The Eras Tour’s final shows in Europe.

During the last day (Aug. 15) of the chart’s tracking week, Swift introduced one all-new digital album variant of Poets on her official webstore, which was available for six hours and sold for $4.99. The set included the standard album’s 16 songs, plus one exclusive bonus track, “The Prophecy (Long Story Short – Live From Lyon),” recorded during The Eras Tour on June 2.

Also on Aug. 15, for only six hours, Swift’s webstore restocked a $4.99 digital album variant that was available briefly the previous tracking week — it contained the standard album’s 16 songs plus a live version of “thank You aimEe (Mean – Live from London),” recorded on June 22 during her The Eras Tour. In the previous tracking week, the same digital album variant was sold in Swift’s webstore, but with one slight difference — the stylization of the letters in the title of bonus live song. It was initially stylized as “thanK you aIMee” (mirroring the studio version on the Poets album), and then on Aug. 15, its stylization changed to “thank You aimEe.” The capitalization of the specific letters in the title — KIM and YE — could reference Kim Kardashian and her ex-husband (and longtime Swift foe), Ye, formerly Kanye West.

In the tracking week ending Aug. 15, Tortured Poets sold nearly 10,000 in digital album downloads across all variants through all sellers (including her webstore, the iTunes Store and others). Even if Poets had not sold a single digital album in the latest tracking week, it still would have been No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The No. 2 title, Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, trails Poets by 13,000 units.

As for The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, the album reaches a new peak for a third week in a row, as it steps 3-2 with 72,000 equivalent album units earned (its best week by units earned; up 13%). In the last 10 weeks, the album has steadily inched its way up the list. It broke into the top 10 on the June 22-dated chart, rising 12-10. It has since moved 8-6-5-5-7-8-4-3-2.

The 3-2 ascent for Rise reflects the tracking week that contained a buzzy festival performance from Roan — her Aug. 11 gig at Outside Lands in San Francisco. The latter generated a quasi-viral moment where she chastised the VIP section for not singing along to the album’s “Hot To Go!”

Morgan Wallen’s chart-topping One Thing at a Time climbs 4-3 on the latest Billboard 200 with 63,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%). It also claims a ninth nonconsecutive week at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart.

Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft steps 5-4 on the Billboard 200 with 57,000 (up 1%), while Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene climbs 7-5 with 48,000 (though down 6%).

Charli XCX’s Brat is a non-mover at No. 6 (47,000; down 16%); Noah Kahan’s Stick Season steps 9-7 (just over 38,000; up 3%); Wallen’s former No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album is stationary at No. 8 (38,000; up 2%); Twisters: The Album rises 10-9 (34,000; down 7%); and Zach Bryan’s self-titled chart-topper returns to the top 10, climbing 12-10 (nearly 34,000; up 6%).

Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.

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Jelly Roll Says Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting Inspired New Album Track ‘Winning Streak’

Jelly Roll is speaking candidly about his experience attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings, a topic he says he’s never talked about in public before.

In a new interview with The New York Times, the artist — who’s topped both the Mainstream Rock Airplay and Country Airplay charts — was asked about an unreleased song, “Winning Streak,” which will be heard on upcoming album Beautifully Broken, scheduled for release in fall 2024. “Winning Streak” “basically describes going to an AA meeting,” NYT‘s David Marchese noted in the conversation. “Is alcohol addiction something you struggle with or have struggled with?”

Jelly Roll explained the song was written “from the perspective of a story I’d seen happen for real” at an AA meeting, which he’ll attend “for my demons.”

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“I still will have a cocktail every now and then and I’m a known weed smoker, but I got away from the drugs that I knew were gonna kill me,” Jelly Roll said of his relationship with drugs and alcohol in the podcast interview published on Saturday (Aug. 17).

“It was really hard for me to get away from those drugs,” which he’s previously said included substances including cocaine, pain pills and codeine. “Something I do [for] maintaining my relationship with those drugs is I will still attend the meetings, even though I’m not a textbook sober guy — but I never share, I just quietly sit and appreciate the message and the meaning,” he said.

Added Jelly Roll, “This is the first time I’ve talked about this publicly at all. I don’t tell people I go to meetings. It’s not a part of my story that I share because I have so much respect for the men and women in that program that get actually completely sober, that I never want my stuff to get in the way of them.”

Jelly Roll, who says in the chat that he’s “actively doing better every single day,” described the moment at an AA meeting that influenced his writing on “Winning Streak.” It tells someone else’s story, but in the first-person perspective.

He said that felt right for this particular track, and named first-person songs like James Taylor’s “Carolina in My Mind” that have inspired him and made him emotional, solely as the listener.

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“This kid, he’s going through it,” he said of the meeting that resulted in writing “Winning Streak.” “One of the old men sitting there was like, ‘Look man, it’s all good. Nobody came in here on a winning streak.’ It was such a beautiful thing. If you’ve ever been to an AA meeting, a big one, like this room had 20, 30 people in it, it felt like …. You watch the room kind of split when he said that ‘cause half of the room are old, sober dudes who remember being the young dude, so they chuckle, and the other half are other dudes who just immediately feel it in their bones and cry. But it’s all the same emotion and feeling, and right then, there it was. That was the beginning of ‘Winning Streak.’”

“Get By,” another new song from his upcoming album, will serve as the soundtrack for ESPN’s season-long college football coverage across ESPN networks and ABC. Jelly Roll, who’s latest new music release is the collab “Losers” on Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion album, will hit the road for a series of headlining tour dates later this month.

Listen to his full interview, clocking in at over a half-hour, with The New York Times below.

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“Light Me Up!”: Taylor Swift Plays ‘I Did Something Bad’ for First Time on Eras Tour

Taylor Swift did not announce Reputation (Taylor’s Version) Saturday night, but she did finally perform the album’s “I Did Something Bad” on The Eras Tour. At her Aug. 17 show, the song — a personal favorite, Swift said — got its tour debut during the acoustic set at London’s Wembley Stadium.

“The whole tour I’ve done 100s of songs, but I’ve not done one of my favorite ones,” teased Swift, guitar in hand in front of 92,000 people, “because I was waiting for the right crowd.”

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And then came “I Did Something Bad” for the first time in 2024 — a sharp, acoustic version of one of Reputation‘s big pop pillars.

Swift’s Eras rendition of the song still was a thrill, building up to a bridge that had her scream-singing the last “Light me up!”

Of course, it was a thrill to Swifties not just in a musical sense, but in getting hopes high that Swift’s much-anticipated Reputation (Taylor’s Version) might be this-much-closer to materializing.

With only two re-recorded album releases remaining in Swift’s queue, Reputation and her self-titled debut, and with the tip last December that Rep‘s previously unheard vault tracks are “fire” (it’s what Swift said), playing a Rep rarity, which many fans guessed would be saved to align with an album announcement, is an interesting choice. “I Did Something Bad” hasn’t been performed live by Swift since 2018.

Swiftstorians might recall that it was almost exactly seven years ago, on Aug. 18, 2017, when Swift cryptically went dark on socials ahead of the original Reputation album’s announcement. Without explanation, on Aug. 21, 2017, one post showed up on her feed: the first slither of the now-iconic snake imagery associated with her sixth studio album.

“I DID SOMETHING BAD” surfaced as a trending topic on social media into the late hours of Saturday, with fan memes aplenty. (Scroll through them below.)

In Saturday night’s acoustic set, she also played a piano mashup that pulled at the heartstrings: “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” from The Tortured Poets Department, and “Coney Island,” from Evermore. Swift has two more Wembley shows before wrapping her run of London tour dates.

Keep track of all of the surprise songs performed on The Eras Tour on Billboard‘s full list, after you watch “I Did Something Bad” and scroll through the general reaction Swifties had online.

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Keith Urban Plays Surprise Concert, Preps Brisket Behind the Counter at a Buc-ee’s in Alabama

Keith Urban gave just a few hours’ notice before performing a free concert Friday night (Aug. 16) in the parking lot of a large convenience store and gas station in north Alabama.

Hundreds of people turned out for the show in Athens, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) south of Nashville. It was outside a Buc-ee’s, a chain of roadside stores known for barbecue.

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“I came down to this Buc-ee’s about a month ago. And when I left, I went, ‘It’d be kind of fun to do a show there,’” Urban told the crowd during the concert, according to an Instagram video posted by WAFF-TV in Huntsville, Alabama.

Urban said his “caveman brain” told him it would be fun to set up a little stage for a small audience.

“I swear to you, I thought maybe 100, 200 people,” Urban said as a video showed a larger crowd.

People started gathering hours before the show, news outlets reported.

“I was at work and we heard it on the radio that there was going to be a surprise concert at Buc-ee’s in Athens,” Cindy Wilson told FOX 54 WZDX-TV in Huntsville. “And I was like, ’Oh my God, it’s on my way home.’ And it’s 15 minutes from my house. So I couldn’t believe it.”

While he was at the store, Urban also worked behind a food counter. A video showed him wearing a Buc-ee’s T-shirt and apron as he poured barbecue sauce on some brisket and chopped the meat into smaller pieces.

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Taylor Swift Calls Post Malone ‘Most Down to Earth Guy Alive’ Following His ‘F-1 Trillion’ Album Release

Taylor Swift is praising Post Malone following his new album release.

The 34-year-old pop superstar took to her Instagram Story on Saturday (Aug. 17) to gush over the “Sunflower” singer’s country debut, F-1 Trillion, which dropped on Friday.

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“Was lucky enough to hear this amazing music on set of the ‘fortnight’ video when Austin played it for me,” Swift captioned an image of herself on set with Malone, 29. She added, “It’s incredible how versatile his artistry is. And just the most down to earth guy alive.”

The “Anti-Hero” hitmaker’s post also included a link to stream F-1 Trillion.

Malone has spent months in Nashville, writing and collaborating with Music City’s top country artists and songwriters in crafting the new set. He teamed with Morgan Wallen for the six-week Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper “I Had Some Help,” and his collaboration with Blake Shelton, “Pour Me a Drink,” is at No. 14 on the Country Airplay chart.

F-1 Trillion also features collaborations with Luke Combs, Dolly Parton, Jelly Roll, Tim McGraw, Ernest, Hank Williams Jr., Lainey Wilson, Brad Paisley, Sierra Ferrell, HARDY and Chris Stapleton.

Earlier this year, Swift teamed up with Malone on “Fortnight,” the lead single from her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department. The track spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May.

Malone also joined Swift for the trippy music video of “Fortnight.” The visual features Post’s tattoos on Taylor’s face as she appears to wipe her face clean, only to reveal a face full of ink instead. In a series of flashback scenes, both of the musicians are fresh-faced, as Swift runs into the arms of a tattoo-free Malone.

See Swift’s post about Malone’s F-1 Trillion album on her Instagram Story here.

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Bebe Rexha Claims She Was Victim of ‘Hate Crime’ for Speaking Albanian at Munich Airport

Bebe Rexha is claiming she was the victim of a “hate crime” after an incident at a German airport.

In a series of emotional posts on her Instagram Story on Saturday (Aug. 17), the 34-year-old pop star alleged that she was “threatened” and banned from her Lufthansa flight at Munich Airport after speaking Albanian to a security official.

“I’ve been threatened because I thought the security agent was Albanian,” Rexha captioned a video of herself sobbing. “I spoke to him in Albanian asking where to get my ticket and now he is banning me from the flight.”

In a another post, she wrote, “I believe this to be a hate crime because I am Albanian. He would not let me take his name. He continued to mentally abuse me to make me feel like he was more powerful [than] he was. Not one of the women at @Lufthansa stepped in or said something. He would not give me his name. But I just found out he works for ATSG a service company document control hired by Lufthansa.”

Rexha also reposted a request from another Instagram user asking for the singer to be brought home safely, and called for the Munich Airport to “investigate the male officer who threatened a [woman]” for speaking Albanian.

Rexha was born in New York and is of Albanian-North Macedonian descent. The Brooklyn native’s father was born North Macedonia and her mother, who was born in the U.S., has Albanian roots as well.

A representative for Lufthansa told TMZ that the airline is in contact with Rexha to get the full story. Lufthansa reportedly added that “diversity and equal opportunity are core values to their company.”

See Rexha’s emotional posts on her Instagram Story here.

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Paris Hilton Shows Damage After Trailer Burns Down on Music Video Set

Paris Hilton says she is “safe” after a fire broke out on the set of her latest music video.

On Friday (Aug. 16), the 43-year-old Simple Life alum shared on social media that a blaze broke out in her trailer while filming a video for her new song “Bad B—- Academy.” The post included shots of the damage caused by the fire, along with a message pointing out that nobody was injured during the incident.

“Sadly an accidental fire broke out in my trailer on the set of my music video today,” Hilton wrote on her Instagram Story. “As heartbreaking as it is, l’m so thankful everyone is safe and I’m incredibly grateful for the amazing support I have around me.”

The “Stars Are Blind” singer’s post included a shout-out to her team, including video director Hannah Lux Davis, as well as Heidi Klum, Meghan Trainor and Lance Bass.

Hilton shared a second post with a photo containing some of her charred belongings from the video shoot. “Not how I expected my music video shoot for ‘Bad B—- Academy’ to go,” she captioned the image.

Hilton’s upcoming album, Infinite Icon, is scheduled for release during New York Fashion Week on Sept. 6. The upcoming release, executive produced by Sia, marks the entertainment icon’s first full-length since her 2006 debut, Paris, which spawned her biggest hit to date “Stars Are Blind.” The track reached No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Hilton recently collaborated with Meghan Trainor on the song “Chasin’.” Paris gushed about the “All About That Bass” singer in an interview with Billboard.

“One of my favorite features is with Meghan Trainor. She’s just so sweet and amazing,” she said. “We met years ago during New York Fashion Week. She just came up to me, like, ‘I’m the third Hilton sister.’ Then I immediately just loved her so much and we became best friends.”

See Hilton’s damaged trailer photos on her Instagram Story here.

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Maurice Williams, Writer and Lead Singer of ‘Stay,’ Dies at 86

Maurice Williams, a rhythm and blues singer and composer who with his backing group the Zodiacs became one of music’s great one-shot acts with the classic ballad “Stay,” has died. He was 86.

Williams died Aug. 6, according to an announcement from the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, which did not immediately provide further details.

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A writer and performer since childhood, Williams had been in various harmony groups when he and the Zodiacs began a studio session in 1960.

They unexpectedly made history near the end with their recording of “Stay,” which Williams had dashed off as a teenager a few years earlier.

Over hard chants of “Stay!” by his fellow vocalists, Williams carried much of the song and its plea to an unnamed girl. Midway, he stepped back and gave the lead to Shane Gaston and one of rock’s most unforgettable falsetto shouts — “Oh, won’t you stay, just a little bit longer!”

Barely over 1 minute, 30 seconds, among the shortest chart-toppers of the rock era, the song hit No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart in 1960 and was the group’s only major success.

But it was covered by the Hollies and the Four Seasons among others early on and endured as a favorite oldie, known best from when Jackson Browne sang it live for his 1977 Running On Empty album.

“Stay” also was performed by Browne, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty and others at the 1979 No Nukes concert at Madison Square Garden and appeared in its original version on the blockbuster Dirty Dancing soundtrack from 1987.

The song was inspired by a teenage crush, Mary Shropshire.

“(Mary) was the one I was trying to get to stay a little longer,” Williams told the North Carolina publication Our State in 2012. “Of course, she couldn’t.”

Williams’ career was otherwise more a story of disappointments. He wrote another falsetto showcase, “Little Darlin,” and recorded it in 1957 with the Gladiolas. But the song instead became a hit for a white group, the Diamonds. In 1965, Williams and the Zodiacs cut a promising ballad, “May I.” But their label, Vee-Jay, went bankrupt just as the song was coming out and “May I” was later a hit for another white group, Bill Deal & the Rhondels.

Like many stars from the early rock era, Williams became a fixture on oldies tours and tributes, while also making the albums Let This Night Last and Back to Basics. In the mid-1960s, he settled in Charlotte, North Carolina, and in 2010 was voted into the state’s Hall of Fame. Survivors include his wife, Emily.

Williams was born in Lancaster, South Carolina, and sang with family members in church while growing up. He was in his teens when he formed a gospel group, the Junior Harmonizers, who became the Royal Charms as they evolved into secular music and then the Zodiacs in honor of a Ford car they used on the road. Meanwhile, he was a prolific writer and needed little time to finish what became his signature hit.

“It took me about 30 minutes to write ‘Stay,’ then I threw it away,” he later told www.classicsbands.com. “We were looking for songs to record as Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs. I was over at my girlfriend’s house playing the tape of songs I had written, when her little sister said, ‘Please do the song with the high voice in it.’ I knew she meant ‘Stay.’ She was about 12 years old and I said to myself, ‘She’s the age of record buying,’ and the rest is history. I thank God for her.”

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Victor Manuelle to Receive The Entertainers’ Key to New York City & More Uplifting Moments in Latin Music

From career milestones to new music releases to major announcements and those little important moments, Billboard editors highlight uplifting moments in Latin music. Here’s what happened in the Latin music world this week.

Eladio Carrión’s Olympic Donation

Eladio Carrión is giving a donation of New Balance 990v6 sneakers to the athletes, coaches and staff of the Puerto Rican Olympic Team, according to a press statement. The announcement was first made during the season finale of Complex’s Sneaker Shopping series, where the Puerto Rican hitmaker made history with the show’s “largest purchase ever.” As a previous Olympic-qualifying swimmer, Carrión is “deeply committed to supporting and honoring the team’s dedication and hard work in their pursuit of excellence,” added the statement.

See Eladio Carrión’s episode below:

Victor Manuelle to Receive Key to NYC

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the return of the ‘Rise Up NYC’ summer concert series, which will offer free outdoor concerts to New Yorkers across all five boroughs. On Aug. 21, when Victor Manuelle is set to perform in the Bronx, the salsa hitmaker will also receive the receive The Entertainers’ Key to New York City.

“With great honor! I thank Mayor Adams for this recognition and for allowing me to meet again with the Hispanic public of New York City, in an event as significant as Rise-Up. I’m very excited to present my show and celebrate a night full of music and energy with the Latin community,” the salsa singer said in a statement.

¡Viva! Broadway

 The Broadway League and Museum of Broadway announced a new exhibit to celebrate Latin and Hispanic heritage on Broadway, titled ¡Viva Broadway!: Ayer, hoy y mañana. The exhibit will launch on Sept.15 in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

“The Broadway League’s ¡Viva! Broadwayinitiative is excited to collaborate with The Museum of Broadway in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by highlighting the remarkable achievements of Latiné and Hispanic artists on Broadway through an immersive month-long exhibit curated by the museum and the League,” Jason Laks, interim president of The Broadway League, said in a statement. “Visitors will get the chance to see iconic pieces from favorite Broadway shows up close. Additionally, the month will feature a range of special events and panel discussions with distinguished Broadway performers and industry professionals.”

The exhibit will feature a mural by famed graffiti artist Soraya Marquez, aka Indie184, and will be open to the public Sept. 15 – Oct. 15 at The Museum of Broadway in Times Square.

FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Anthem

FIFA unveiled “Aheh-Aheh,” the official song for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Colombia 2024 anthem. The song is a collaboration between Mambo Kingz, DJ Luian featuring Colombian artists Nath and Ysa C.

“This is a moment of great pride for Colombia,” said Ysa C in a statement. “We are showcasing our passion for football and our vibrant culture to the world. The FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup is not just about sport, it’s about celebrating our unity and diversity.”

“Being part of the anthem for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia is a tremendous honor and a testament to our love for the game,” Nath added. “It’s an opportunity to highlight our nation’s talent, resilience, and the vibrant spirit of our people.”

The tournament kicks off Aug. 31 in Bogotá, Colombia. The match schedule for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Colombia 2024 can be found here.

Carlos Vives Lunches New Summit

The Colombian star launched the new Tras La Perla Summit 2024 on Thursday at the Teatro Santa Marta. Billed as a summit that “seeks to strengthen the social fabric of its territory of influence and promote the construction of the future of the city of Santa Marta,” which will celebrate its 500th anniversary in 2025.

The summit is part of the Tras La Perla initiative, founded by Carlos Vives and his wife Claudia Elena Vásquez, which is “dedicated to transformation and local development with identity” in the city of Santa Marta and the region.

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