This November was speculated to mark the third iteration of Soulshine At Sea, a four-day live performance cruise that goes from Miami, Florida to Cozumel, Mexico. Right now, nevertheless, the fest’s organizer Sixthman introduced that the sold-out cruise has been canceled. Their assertion didn’t give a cause for the cancellation, however it seems prefer it has one thing to do with accusations of abusive habits from the cruise’s scheduled headliner, Michael Franti, who has denied the allegations.
Final week the singer-songwriter Victoria Canal posted a prolonged assertion to her Instagram detailing a year-long abusive relationship with an older, established male artist who helped her launch her music profession after he “plucked [her] out of the Web” when she was 19 years previous. “This particular person verbally admitted to me (whereas I used to be in an especially weak place) that getting me on this place had been his plan all alongside — from the second he noticed my face on the Web — a confession that froze me in time, and debilitated my physique from feeling pleasure and freedom for years and years,” Canal wrote.
Whereas Canal didn’t identify Franti within the assertion, Franti himself has gushed about discovering Canal on Instagram in 2018, when she would have been about 19 years previous. Just a few days after Canal shared her preliminary assertion, she adopted it up with one other Instagram put up with screenshots of messages detailing comparable allegations of abusive habits from the identical particular person; many particulars in these messages align with tales individuals have shared about Franti on Reddit.
After Canal’s posts, Tank And The Bangas introduced that they’d dropped off their upcoming tour supporting Michael Franti & Spearhead. “Whereas we’re not conscious of any particular particulars associated to the matter, in gentle of the current put up made concerning the artist, we’ve got made the tough resolution to not take part,” reads their put up, for which Canal thanked them on her Instagram tales. Dispatch and Maggie Rose, two artists who had been additionally scheduled to carry out Soulshine At Sea, subsequently introduced they’d be dropping off of the cruise, citing “deeply regarding allegations involving one other artist on the lineup.”
“We’re actively working to announce a brand new occasion that may sail November 4-8, 2025,” Sixthman added of their assertion concerning the Soulshine At Sea cancellation. “Extra particulars can be shared tomorrow, Monday, August 18. As we communicated on Friday to booked friends, all friends can be supplied choices concerning their reservations, which embrace a full refund or future Sixthman credit score.” Shortly after that information, Franti issued an announcement of his personal, confirming that he had been in a romantic relationship outdoors his marriage with an artist with whom he was working. “I’m conscious of the current posts this artist made about our relationship, and whereas I help her want to precise herself publicly, the connection was utterly consensual, based mostly on mutual emotions and attraction.”
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