The city of Ponce, where the hip hop and reggaeton artist was born, Tempo, became the stage for the launch of the “FREE TEMPO” campaign.
A group of females trained to do this task will be collecting signatures and distributing informative material of the campaign which is complemented with the exposition of several walls painted by the young artist named Klass, who illustrated in a form of “graffiti” the logo of the “FREE TEMPO” campaign. Both promotional efforts are part of the strategy of the positioning the commented campaign that attempts to collect signatures to request a new trial for Tempo, which sentence of 24 years in prison was based in purely circumstantial evidence.
David Sanchez Badillo, better known as "Tempo", is the most relevant figure of the new history of the Latin urban music. He was born in the Public Housing Project “Lirios Del Sur” in Ponce, Puerto Rico where he was raised with his two younger sisters Jessica and Daimar. In that city of the South of the Island, he went to school and studied for a semester in the “La Escuela Libre de Música Juan Morell Campos”. Since then, it was evident that Tempo had a gift for the rhythm and prose.
The four murals, in red, black and white, the colors of the campaign and the city, make a call for the liberation of the artist and these are located in four strategic places in Ponce: the public housing project Los Lirios, where the artist was raised, in the By-Pass, in the beach and by the exit of Road number 1.
It is expected that the “FREE TEMPO” campaign that pursues the celebration of a fair trial and the possible liberation of the young artist gets the public attention and releases a petition to all the sectors so that justice can be done. The goal of the “FREE TEMPO” campaign is to reunite 5 millions signatures for a petition to the Federal Court of Boston that will be looking at the sentence appeal of 24 years in prison.
