Peace without Borders in Cuba

Famous Colombian rocker Juanes fulfilled his dream of playing in Cuba and proclaiming changing times to the world: hatred into love.

A joyful noise erupted from the more than a million people jamming Havana's Revolution Square for the much-hyped "Peace without Borders" megaconcert celebrating, in defiance of extremely hot temperatures, the musical message of the opening to fellowship by artists from seven countries including Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Spain, Italy and Cuba.

Olga Tañon’s mind-blowing performance opened the first 30 minutes of the show to heat the stage that remained hot for the rest of the five-hour concert with artists like Síntesis and X Alfonso, Danny Rivera, Juan Fernando Velasco, Amaury Pérez, Víctor Manuel, Miguel Bosé, Jovanotti, Cucú Diamantes and Yerbabuena, the Orishas, Juanes, Silvio Rodríguez, Luís Eduardo Aute and Carlos Varela, ending with a gigantic collective finale backed by Juan Formell and Los Van Van.

Other musicians and friends of the project showed their confidence in the success of the concert, many via internet.

René Pérez (aka Residente), leader of Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican hip-hop and alternative-reggaeton duo Calle 13, declared in an internet message: “Don’t fail me; I’ve been ready for a long time to play in Cuba with the whole band”. Another Puerto Rican star, Luis Fonsi, wrote to Juanes on his Twitter page: “Brother, let your peace message be heard all over...