BY: CULTURE / EL PILÓN
Next December 22 will mark 10 years since the death of Diomedes Díaz, the greatest artist that Vallenata music has ever produced.
Prior to the celebration of the first decade without El Cacique de la Junta, close people have been sharing transcendental events that preceded his death.
This Wednesday, December 20, the announcer and connoisseur of Vallenato folklore, Jaime Pérez Parodi, also the eternal presenter of Diomedes, recalled what was the last presentation of the Vallenato idol.
“This… this is the worst dance I have ever sung, but I promise you that you will never see me like this again,” Pérez wrote on his social network Twitter, referring to the words of his group leader that December 20, 2013 to 2:20 am after leaving his presentation at the Trucupey nightclub in Barranquilla.
According to a testimony from José Zequeda, the artist’s manager at that time, given to EL TIEMPO in which he tells the details of that last ‘show’, Diomedes arrived at the nightclub after midnight. He left the stage at 12:20 am after Jaime Pérez Parodi’s presentation.
Next to him were his musicians and his accordion player, the king of kings Álvaro López. That same week he had released the CD ‘The Artist’s Life’.
That night she performed iconic songs such as ‘You are the queen’, ‘Colored snails’, ‘My boy’; She also wished those in attendance a Merry Christmas and New Year.
The Diomedists would never see him alive again. Diomedes was found dead in his residence on the afternoon of Sunday, December 22.
