'RiseUp AS ONE' Concert Bridges U.S.-Mexico Border Sandra Dibble - San Diego Union-Tribune
go to original October 16, 2016

Fonseca y Debi Nova - Rise Up Canción Oficial (RiseUp AS ONE)

Their voices rising in English and Spanish, an all-star cast of performers called for building bridges — not walls — during a Saturday concert in San Diego by the U.S. border.

The outdoor concert, called “RiseUp AS ONE,” was a celebration of immigration, cultural diversity and Latin identity — and a call for political participation — before an audience of some 15,000 people gathered as the sun went down by the border fence in Otay Mesa.

The message reached a far broader audience, as the concert was broadcast live nationally and streamed worldwide by the event’s hosts, the Spanish-language television network Univision and Fusion, a cable channel and digital platform aimed at English-speaking millennials.

The lineup included Spanish singers Miguel Bosé and Alejandro Sanz, Colombians Carlos Vives and Juanes, Mexico’s Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican-American Lila Downs, Tijuana-raised Julieta Venegas, San Diegan Andra Day, Mexican-American singer Lupillo Rivera, the famed Norteño band, Los Tigres del Norte and Puerto Rican rapper Residente.

In between rhythmic cumbias, ballads and norteño songs, the performers sounded a political message: That it’s time for U.S. Latinos to exercise their political clout.

The concert’s timing a little over three weeks before the U.S. presidential election was no accident. And the setting, right by the Cross Border Xpress elevated pedestrian bridge that spans the fence, presented a counterpoint to Republican candidate Donald Trump’s call to build a continuous wall on the Mexican border.

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