Meet the Singer Who Has Become a Voice for the Venezuelan Diaspora
Meet the Singer Who Has Become a Voice for the Venezuelan Diaspora
After Reymar Perdomo's song “Me Fui” went viral, the singer spoke to AQ about the challenges of leaving Venezuela.
Reymar Perdomo wrote “Me Fui,” a song about leaving Venezuela, to express her own despair at having to abandon her home, her family and all she’d known. She ended up giving voice to the Venezuelan diaspora, an estimated four million people who are fleeing the country’s political and humanitarian crises.
Perdomo, 29, had been a contestant on various local televised singing competitions, including the reality show Generación S, in 2016. When she decided to leave for Peru to look for economic opportunities, as an estimated 100,000 Venezuelans have already done, she faced many of the...
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