james taylor cancels manila show over drug killings
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James Taylor cancels Manila show over drug killings

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Manila - Arab Today

Grammy award-winning singer James Taylor said Wednesday he has canceled a February 2017 concert in the Philippines in protest at the alleged extrajudicial killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war.
“I don’t think of my music as being particularly political but sometimes one is called upon to make a political stand,” the US star said in social media posts on Twitter as well as on his Facebook page.
“For a sovereign nation to prosecute and punish, under the law, those responsible for the illegal trade in drugs is, of course, understandable, even commendable,” he said, calling drug dependence a “scourge” and a “worldwide problem.”
“But recent reports from the Philippines of summary executions of suspected offenders without trial or judicial process are deeply concerning and unacceptable to anyone who loves the rule of law.”
Duterte, a fiery populist provincial politician, was elected by a landslide earlier this year largely on a vow to 100,000 criminals.
Taylor, 68, rose to fame in the 1970s for writing and performing sensitive songs such as “Fire and Rain” and “You’ve Got a Friend” and has won five Grammy Awards over his long career.
In recent press interviews he has openly discussed his recovery from heroin addiction in his teens, just before he became globally famous.
Taylor informed local promoter Ovation Productions about his decision late Tuesday and rejected last-minute appeals to reconsider, Ovation president and chief executive Renen de Guia told AFP.
De Guia said Taylor was the first foreign performer he is aware of to have canceled a Philippine concert over the killings, and hoped he would be the last.

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