Much has been said before on social networks about the alleged plagiarism that singer Joe Arroyo allegedly inflicted on other artists. This week, however, a content creator for the social network TikTok released several videos, exposing the alleged evidence.
Leonardo Guzmán, known on Tiktok (@desmontandovisajes), showed in his account how the renowned artist copied his colleagues and did not give them credit. One of the videos reveals the song titled “La noche”, which was published by Arroyo in 1988, but this song was very similar to “Opa opa”, a composition by Haitian guitarist Robert Martino that he released in 1981.
Guzmán claimed that the Cartagena-based singer was an expert in “looting,” the practice of deliberately copying parts or entire songs of other authors without taking credit for generating versions, translations or new work.
“Many know that Joe Arroyo collected Haitian rhythm records that he blatantly called ‘Joeson’ and Martino was the victim. Note that Joe not only had to be inspired by the instrumental parts, the harmony or the melody, but also adopted the phonemes,” the content creator indicated.
It also shows that Robert Martino recognized the plagiarism and would have even tried to sue Joe, but he would have died and therefore the lawsuit never came to light.
Similarly, in a second video, Guzmán revealed the alleged plagiarism that the Colombian music icon allegedly committed with Mario Chicot and his song ‘Le première fous’ (1988), to create ‘Tal para cual’ in 1995. , he also explains that the same thing happened with ‘Yamulemau’, a song released by Joe Arroyo in 1988 that was inspired, in his own words in the past, by ‘Diamoule Mawo’, a song composed years earlier by the Gambian Laba Sosseh.
“The similarities are many and they last more than eight measures, which is almost the whole song: the harmony, which cannot be patented, is exactly the same degree; and the melody, which is patentable, is also the same, in the same manner as the verse and proclamations. We add that the form, the intro and the choruses have also been copied”, Guzmán exclaims.
This material is not liked by fans of Joe Arroyo, who are waiting for more tiktoker videos to be published.
Source: El heraldo
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