Darío Gómez, the King of Spite, will be eternal from his throne. In Una Cruz, Tierra y Olvido he sang: “I hope that when I die they fire me I would like to without tears or pain”, and his fans have complied because his tomb in Campos de Paz became a site of pilgrimage and pilgrimage to which hundreds of followers arrive daily to pay tribute and take photos.
Since the artist was buried in the cemeterythis has experienced what was not experienced many years ago: from six to six, twelve hours a day, hundreds of people from the city and many foreigners of all ages come in taxis, cars, motorcycles and on foot with the intention to meet the idol that left them immortal songs like Daniela, Sobreviviré or Nobody is eternal in the world. At his grave they behave as if he were still walking among them.
The grave, marked with 01-011-01 and in which there is only the date of death of today’s most famous ‘guest’ of the cemetery, it is more like a garden thanks to the flower offerings of the visitors.
According to Marcela Bermúdez, purchasing coordinator at Campos de Paz, the high flow of visitors that arrives every day where El Rey del Despecho has become incalculable Well, apart from those who come directly to look for it, there are also those who initially go to visit another deceased and take a little walk around the grave, in which the selfie type photo cannot be missing.
There are also those who, with the sadness intact of the wake of a relative in Campos de Paz, seek a bit of calm in the final resting place of the interpreter.
“There are people who come to pray at the tomb, there are others who, without knowing each other, meet there and start sharing stories about him. You even see people come and sing some of his songs to him. There are also other visitors in their vehicles who play some of their songs,” said Bermúdez, referring to the deceased as if he were still on tour.
In fact, and unwittingly, the tomb of Darío Gómez is now a tourist reference in the city, because among the pilgrimage of visitors there are many foreigners who come to see where El Rey is.
Moreover, workers and visitors to Campos de Paz received a tremendous surprise last week when a bus It was not a funeral procession but a large group of tourists from Cali.
Yesterday there was another group of tourists. Two of them were the Bogota citizens Jeison Salcedo and Leidy Suárez, decided to add a visit to Gómez to their itinerary in the city.
She, visibly moved, pointed out that it was a must on the agenda. Jason, a little more timid, indicated that it was unthinkable to come to Medellin and not being in the place that caused such a national stir two weeks ago.
A Miracle Named Darius
The King’s presence in Campos de Paz is already being blamed for ‘miracles’, since many fans of the singer-songwriter buy from the florists of the cemetery from humble packages of flowers to showy bouquets, which has affected the profits of the latter.
And it is that until yesterday and in a test of devotion to the musician, in Gómez’s grave there was not a single dry flower and there were 16 elegant and leafy bouquets, as well as small packages of colorful plants that the employees of Campos de Paz were in charge of organizing in the most aesthetic way.
Fortunately, and contrary to what happened on the day of his funeral, visits from Gómez’s faithful followers have not caused any public order problems. In fact, according to Bermúdez, even the Police stopped making the rounds that they previously carried out continuously. because the behavior of the visitors has been exemplary.
“People come, pay their tributes, and in five or 10 minutes they leave. It’s like that all day. So here, fortunately there have been no problems of any kind.”, he added.
Rock lovers have to go to Graceland in Tennessee to visit the grave of King Elvis Presley; those of pop should go to Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in California, to be close to the remains of Michael Jackson, the king of pop. Fortunately for us, the followers of spite, we only need to cross 80th Avenue to meet Darío Gómez.the eternal King of Spite