San Juan, Puerto Rico; August 29, of 2006 – The entrepreneur Adam Kidron, CEO and President of Urban Box Office – UBO, reacted to information disseminated throughout the media related to the “FREE TEMPO” which is pursuing to raise consciousness among the public of the innocence of the Puerto Rican star David Sanchez, better known as Tempo.
Right from New York City, where the UBO Headquarters Offices are located, Kidron made statements with the intent to put an end to speculations, animosity and misunderstandings that may put in jeopardy the success of the “FREE TEMPO” campaign.
“Here in Urban Box Office we don’t want to create controversy about the authorship nor the originality of the “FREE TEMPO” campaign. What is known as “FREE TEMPO” is nothing but a spontaneous reaction of the fans, his fellow colleagues artists and Tempo’s family members, who were outraged when Tempo was convicted for crimes that he did not commit; Being the cause of conviction the exact same crimes that his so called partner and mentor, Francisco Murillo, better known as Buddha was acquitted for” Kidron said.
On the other hand, the executive added that his company, UBO, has been the one company responsible to organize and sponsor the “FREE TEMPO” campaign as well as the actual court appealing process of David Sanchez Badillo, who is actually confined in the Federal Correction Complex in Coleman, Florida. It is worth to mention that his friend and colleague Raymond Ayala – Daddy Yankee made a financial contribution in the beginning of the appealing process.
“All the UBO Staff, our members and shareholders, yes, we do claim the strategy of the “FREE TEMPO” campaign, the historical press conference that took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico during the month of January of 2006, the hiring of prestigious professionals that have created a concept, guidelines, criteria and coordination of all the media publicity in Puerto Rico and United States. In addition, the contracting of Public Relations Strategists and Publicity who have now spent months in front of an operation that will impact the Latin community within the next three months. We have documents that demonstrate beyond any doubt that this strategy is ours and that Buddha has received copy from us of the above-mentioned strategy in the beginnings” Kidron stated.
TEMPO SENDS A MESSAGE
Finally and with the sole intention of putting an end to any animosity or controversy, David Sanchez Badillo, through Adam Kidron, President of UBO, wanted to clearly establish that he does not support or endorse in any shape or form and neither has he authorized Buddha to launch any product related to his person or to the “FREE TEMPO” movement.
In the same note, he added that Tempo has not invited nor he has any intention to invite Buddha to visit him in prison; that he (Buddha) did not pay for his defense as he promised and furthermore, he engaged in business transactions without Tempo’s consent with another record label company.
LAUNCH OF WEBSITE COMING SOON
Finally, Adam Kidron announced that very soon, the “FREE TEMPO” campaign will be released in the website WWW.FREETEMPO.ORG, designed by Elastic People. “We want to use this opportunity to urge the public to join UBO’s efforts to make justice possible and make Tempo’s freedom a reality”, stated the entrepreneur.