translated from Spanish: Karen Bejarano recalled meeting with Juanes: “I started yelling at him”, I’m not just anyone!”

Karen Bejarano, recounted in the program Sigamos de Largo, the meeting she held with Colombian singer Juanes in 2004. The former Mekano recalled what happened, but assured that it was not a pleasant moment. “I went in 2004 to the closure of the Telethon at the National Stadium and I was going as a stellar number, obviously, after ten o’clock at night, after the news. Then in that minute we were on the same label, he international and I national,” he began.” They tell me ‘we’d like you to get to know each other because you’re the same label.’ (…) I’m going into Juanes’ chamber, please don’t get wrong. It was like this, like a studio the room, there was its manager, its stylists. And nothing poh, I came in, I introduced myself, we stayed in conversation. I remember it was a three-body armchair and I sat in this part and he was there.” Bejarano continued his account, ensuring that during the conversation the artist told him “hopefully one day we’ll stumble on some stage and do something together.’ And I couldn’t believe it.” I leave the room and behind me comes his manager. He touches my shoulder, I turn around and say ,’yes?’ ‘It’s just that Juanes was delighted with you.’ (…) And I, silly, say ‘oh, how good. Did you like it?’, because I sang him a piece of a song from him.”” He says ‘well, he loved it, so after the Telethon, the presentation of both, they could go to dinner. He’d like to go to dinner with you, then you’ll see.’ I was 18 at the time,” he added. The singer said she reacted with outrage. “I started screaming, ‘What?! I’m not a prostitute!’ I started yelling ‘I’m not just anyone, I told him I was polonating!’, and I start crying. The rooster says to me ‘now, calm, quiet.’ ‘No, because this can’t be. I’m not like that!’ I swear to you. Everyone started looking everywhere.”

Original source in Spanish