Here's the thing: getting cut off mid-set at your own concert is bad. Getting cut off mid-set while your fans are watching is worse. But according to Yahaira Plasencia, that is simply what working with this particular promoter looks like.
The incident happened on July 28 at the Olympic Arena in Badalona, Barcelona, during the festival Perú Salsa All Stars II — a Fiestas Patrias celebration for the Peruvian community in Spain. Videos that went viral on TikTok showed the volume on Daniela Darcourt's set dropping noticeably while she was still onstage, followed by an abrupt exit and visible confusion in the crowd.
Darcourt pushed back fast. In a public response to a user online, she wrote: 'No honey, I always arrived on time… it was them who changed the schedule on me and on all the other artists. Cutting our show however they saw fit. A total lack of respect, but what matters to me is the audience… not a promoter who doesn't know what he's doing.'
That was the frame Darcourt set: not her fault, but a last-minute scheduling reshuffle that hit multiple performers.
Enter Yahaira Plasencia, who was asked about the episode after her own show on July 30. Her read was notably different. 'That promoter that took Yosimar to Daniela is the same promoter that took me to Yosimar last year. The same promoter. A very serious promoter, very good,' she said.
She then named the mechanism: 'What happens is that they are very strict with the schedule and unfortunately that's just how it is.'
Plasencia also confirmed this is not a one-off. She said that last year, the same producer pulled Son Tentación offstage under similar circumstances — a detail she noted had gone largely unreported at the time. 'It has happened,' she said flatly.
Her personal workaround, she explained, was to volunteer to go on early rather than fight for the closing slot. 'I would say: wait, put me on first and I'll leave. Because some people always want to close. You guys close, I'll go first and bye, I'm going home.' Pragmatic, if unglamorous.
She did acknowledge that Darcourt came out of it with public support intact. 'I think Daniela had the backing of all the people, so it's fine, these things happen,' Plasencia said.
The episode is a clean illustration of a structural problem in live festival production: when schedules slip — and they always slip — someone gets cut, and whoever gets cut takes the reputational hit regardless of who caused the delay. Darcourt's instinct to go public immediately was the right call; silence in that moment reads as guilt. The audience, at least, got the message.
