Desingerica Postpones US Tour as Team Member Lacks Visa
The rapper says his US tour is on hold because a team member did not get a visa. Sources disagree: some report a postponement, others a cancellation.
Rapper Dragomir Despic, known as Desingerica, will not hold his planned tour of the United States on schedule, because one member of his team did not get a US visa. He explained the reason last night on the show “Premijera Weekend Special” on Pink, and news sites picked it up on Sunday morning.
The name of the team member who was left without a visa has not been released. It is also unknown which cities the tour was supposed to include, or when: none of the published articles on this story names cities or dates. They only say the rapper was due to play a series of shows in America for the local diaspora.
What did Desingerica say about the visas?
The rapper speaks of a delay in the procedure, not a cancellation. This is how he put it on the show:
“We had a delay with submitting the visas. America would really be on fire, but someone from the team could not get a visa, so we left it for later so we can sort everything out. I would not want to go there without being at full strength. When that gets sorted, we go, and I think it will be sorted soon.”
So the tour goes ahead only with the full team, and the deadline is “soon.” No specific new date has been given.
Postponed or cancelled?
Here the sources disagree, so it should be said as it stands. Telegraf and Kurir report that the tour was postponed. Mondo and Blic report that it was cancelled, and Mondo’s headline also claims the visa was “denied.”
The statement Desingerica gave contains no word about a denial. He says someone from the team “could not get a visa” and that they left the matter “for later.” That describes a problem with submitting paperwork, not a consulate’s decision. Mondo adds that the visas in question are work visas, which the rapper does not mention in the part that was quoted.
Pinkove Zvezde, a second front
Desingerica sits on the jury of “Pinkove Zvezde” alongside Zorica Brunclik and Miroljub Arandjelovic Kemis. Telegraf notes that his contestant won the competition and that this caused tension on the jury. According to that reporting, Brunclik and Kemis allegedly asked the production for special guarantees and protection from the rapper’s comments.
As Telegraf tells it, Desingerica did not stay silent. He said publicly that “some people don’t know how to lose like sportsmen” and that he is “a serious firm” to them.
No source links this feud to the American tour. It comes up here only because the rapper has been in the public eye more for the show than for his music in recent weeks.
What happens next?
For now there are three facts: the tour is not happening on the planned dates, the reason is one team member’s visa, and the rapper says he expects a solution soon. Whether a new date will be announced, and in which cities he will play, has not been stated.
