Did Pablo Escobar Force José Luis Perales To Sing At Gunpoint? Pablo Carbonell Reveals Truth

The musician Pablo Carbonell, leader of Los Toreros Muertos, caused a great controversy after the information he expressed in his memoir, "El Mundo De La Tarántula."

In his notes, Carbonell involves Spanish singer José Luis Perales and the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, assuring that the Colombian forced the singer and composer to sing 15 times the same song, since it was Escobar's favorite.

"I heard that José Luis Perales had been at a narco party and had had to sing the song 'Y Como Es El?' At first they gave him a thousand dollars each time, but when he had sung it about ten times he refused to repeat it. They put a pistol on the table and he had to play the song as often as the party organizer or the lady who was with him wanted," says Carbonell in his book, alluding to Escobar.

According to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, the Ochoa brothers, at that time, partners of Escobar and important members of the Medellin Cartel, were the source of Carbonell. The account that was discovered the day his band performed at the birthday party of one of the youngest of the clan.

The newspaper claims to have contacted the manager of Perales, but that in a first contact, he denied the information Carbonell detailed in his book: "I have 40 years [working] with Perales and there is no money in the world that made him sing the same song nor five times."

Apparently after the question the manager consulted with Perales on the subject and stated that Perales did not deny the information. "When I spoke to Perales I told him that I would put my hand on the fire for him, but he answered me with laughter that I did not put it on him, lest he burn me," said the manager, "Something of that happened, but it's one thing Which has been distorted over the years and is not as it is told. It seems that not less than 40 years ago he participated in a private party where he sang with more artists - he prefers not to give names - and has no idea if Pablo Escobar was there or even if the house was his.

Carbonell did not rectify the information he published in his book. "I am very sorry if Perales has bothered to tell the story, but in the 1980s something like that was quite common."

Listen below the alleged Pablo Escobar's favorite song.