Mr. Salazar, a short, sharp-eyed 40-year-old who is known as Potencia Latina, or Latin Power, is one of New York's first and best-known sonideros -- Mexican D.J.'s who play Colombian-style cumbia music, a mix of Latin melodies and African rhythms, while talking ceaselessly over it to relay messages from audience members to loved ones both near and far.
Inside, video screens above the stage project text messages from the audience: Taylor you're my idol <3 We love you more than we can say!!!
Inside, video screens above the stage project text messages from the audience: Taylor you're my idol We love you more than we can say!!!
I started out reporting cautiously about the region, but as supportive messages from the audience began to reach me via social media, I felt encouraged to loosen the format.
"There is something in our culture today that is more accepting of things you can't quite get your mind around," said Bonnie Hammer, the executive vice president of the Sci-Fi Channel on the USA cable network, which last summer introduced "Crossing Over With John Edward," a talk show whose host attempts to relay messages from departed souls to audience members.
Other tweets are expected to highlight messages from his weekly general audience, Sunday blessings and homilies on key Church holidays as well as papal reaction to world events.
Performing with the Shouters, Mr. McKiver took pains to explain to audiences the messages from slave to slave that were encoded in the lyrics of some songs.
He will continue to seek cameo roles in frivolous TV series and elsewhere, while transmitting messages from beyond, capable of making audiences moo like cattle.
Ian D Montfort is a self-described spirit medium, whose act involves reaching over to "the other side" and relaying messages from dead celebrities to his audience.
Its multitude of protruding wings are inscribed – with "wings of hope", "wings of despair", "wings of oblivion" – little messages from the artist to an audience he probably never dreamt would see it.
