Her Name Was Dolores by Pete Salgado

Author:Pete Salgado
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harpercollins Español
Published: 2017-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Jenni Strikes a Fan with Her Mic

It happened in Raleigh, North Carolina, in June 2008, at one of Jen’s concerts. She was happily performing to her crowd of adoring fans when suddenly someone flung a beer can onto the stage and hit one of Jen’s band members. Jen took matters into her own hands, but this time she went too far, and the media had a field day.

Truth be told, Jen had a history of dealing with her rowdy fans in her own way. Stuff like this happened often, since early on in her career. I remember one gig she had in Las Vegas where a macho guy threw a cup of beer at her and, without blinking an eye, she dropped the mic and darted straight at him. I dropped everything and ran behind her, trying to catch up, thinking, What the hell just happened? When it came to the fight or flight reaction, Jen always chose to fight; she never took anything sitting down, never took shit from anyone, even less so from her fans.

Gabo recalls another incident where a fan threw a lemon at her. She stopped the concert, brought the fan on stage, and slapped her across the face, right then and there, only to find out later that the lemon had a message written on it, “Jenni, I love you! Could you sing my song?” The fans were excited to see their idol and some were quite drunk, so they would do anything to call her attention, not thinking about the consequences. That one fan didn’t throw a lemon at Jen aggressively, but how the hell are you supposed to interpret that when you’re on stage and a flying object suddenly strikes your leg? Another time, a fan threw an ice cube at her and her reaction? She poured a glass filled with ice over his head. I kept telling her, “There are people who are hired to handle these situations. You can’t interfere. You’ve gotta let them do their job. Even if they do something wrong, it’s on them. It’s not your responsibility, because if you intervene, then you become liable and people can sue you.” But she also wanted to be heard. She would be damned if she felt someone was taunting her. She grew up with boys, she was a tomboy, she knew how to defend herself, and she wasn’t one to back down from a fight or confrontation. If Jen felt threatened or attacked, she didn’t take it quietly. She fought back because she wanted to teach her reckless fans a lesson. Everyone was usually buzzed at her concerts, and they usually laughed these confrontations off, until the North Carolina incident where things unintentionally took a turn for the worse.

I wasn’t there that night, but Gabo was, and he remembers how it unfolded as if it were yesterday. When that can flew on stage and hit one of Jen’s band members, Jen stopped the song in its tracks, faced the audience,

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