Farruko
Courtesy Imagine It Media / Mike HoFarruko is officially on the road with his La 167 tour that launched last fall in San Diego. With seven concerts left in the trek, as well as soon-to-be-announced festival performances, the Puerto Rican singer has opened up about his religious beliefs to fans.
During his concert on Friday (Feb. 11) at Miami’s FTX Arena, the artist born Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado preached the word of God to the audience multiple times. “God loves you just the way you are,” he told the packed venue. “We’re all sinners, none of us are perfect.”
Farruko expressed that even though he has all the money and success in the world, he would feel empty and cry at night. “Me, being number one, having the best cars, having it all, I couldn’t see my children,” he explained. “I destroyed my first family. I hurt a woman who loved me just the way I was.”
During his show, the reggaeton singer did not perform his dance hit “Pepas” and in fact, asked fans to forgive him for the lyrics. “Pepas,” which instead was played during the set for the crowd to sing, scored Farruko his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart on the Aug. 28, 2021-dated tally.
“I believed my own lie because my song was number one. I didn’t know the message I was sending,” he said of “Pepas,” meaning pill in English and narrating the story of someone who only wants to party all night long and live the moment. “I’m not proud of that. Who knows how many of your kids I hurt. Now I ask you forgiveness because love starts from within. Value life because we do not know if we are going to save ourselves.”
In summer 2021, Billboard exclusively announced Farru’s return to touring, where he said, “I promise to provide you with a show full of energy and a lot of great music as you all deserve it.”
While some fans on Twitter expressed they were not expecting a religious experience, others applauded the singer’s message.
Following his Miami performance, the singer addressed the concerns of his fans, saying, “I’m sorry to say that Farruko has retired and who’s here is Carlos.”
“I’m truly sorry for those who want to see Farruko,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “You still have time to not go and we will reimburse your money. Those who go and want a new experience of love, are more than welcome. Even if one person goes, I’ll be there and I’ll love you the same whether you attend [my concert] or not. You still have time to not spend your money and time. No one is obliged. There are more artists that you can follow and go see. I am only fulfilling my commitments because I am from word and I owe respect to my fans and God.”
Named after his latest studio album and in honor of one of the main highways in Puerto Rico near his hometown, the La 167 tour made stops in Houston, Atlanta, and San Juan, among other cities. The tour — presented for the most part by Loud and Live and Live Nation on select shows — is set to wrap up on March 5 in Puerto Rico.
Suki Waterhouse has spoken candidly about how she found herself crying constantly after the birth of her daughter.
The singer and actress reflected on her experience as a mother more than two years after she and her partner, actor Robert Pattinson, welcomed their baby girl in March 2024.
During an interview with The Standard published on Thursday, Suki explained that motherhood has completely shifted her outlook on life.
"I think it's made me marvel at our humanness. It's so funny, even just your kid getting a fever, watching a little body recover from that, it's brought me down to what it is to be alive and I really love that," she said. "It feels very survivalist and medieval in a way, especially birth, birth is medieval."
The Daisy Jones & The Six actress, 34, shared that she was caught off guard by just how exposed and emotional she felt after giving birth to her daughter.
"I'm almost two and a half years in now, but when she was first born, I remember thinking that I can't believe everybody does this and I can't believe how vulnerable I feel," she told the publication. "I was crying all the time."
Suki continued, "It makes me cry now thinking about it. It was just... shocking."
The Notting Hill singer also admitted that she has never considered herself someone who cries easily, making those emotions all the more surprising.
"It's so f**king weird! I'm not a cryer! I'm so not an emotional person, I'm such a Capricorn. But being a mum just fed me up in such a sweet way," she stated. "It just absolutely broke open my heart, and I'm just madly in love and, despite my crying right now, I enjoy it so much and I'm so taken by my daughter and so in love with doing it with my partner and I just feel the preciousness of it very much."
Suki and Twilight actor Robert, 40, have been in a relationship since 2018 and announced they were expecting their first child together toward the end of 2023.
The pair have largely kept their romance away from the spotlight and have yet to publicly share the name of their daughter.
