Latin singer Chesca Positive for COVID, MLK performance of the day still relevant

Latin singer Chesca – an artist supposed to perform at Joe bidenMLK Day Celebration – Just announced she’s caught the coronavirus … but the show will continue, with her in the mix no less.

Chesca took to IG to break the news on Saturday, writing in Spanish that she recently attended a recording session at a Miami studio … where one of the producers looked sick. She says she asked if it was related to COVID, and he assured it wasn’t – he said he was having a hangover.

It’s not, it turns out … Chesca says it was COVID from the start, because everyone in the studio that day caught the virus. Chesca posted her positive test result, with a caption that read … “#F *** COVID.” Looks like she had a quick antigen test as well.

Chesca tells TMZ … “Luckily none of us have bad symptoms and feel good. We have all tested positive too. I have mild symptoms at 0 and feel good just a little bit of aches. .

She adds, “I feel good and do the show on my own. They put a camera on and I’ll be alone.” So Chesca is going to perform on Monday, as planned.

She is one of more than a dozen speakers and performers to take center stage on Monday to honor Dr Martin Luther King Jr. It looks like some appearances will be virtual, while others will take place in person, with CDC guidelines in mind.

Some of the people who will be talking or singing / playing … Aloe blacc, Reverend Dr. Bernice King, Martin Luther King III, Representative Sharice Davids, Rosario Dawson, Andra’s Day, Yo-Yo Ma, Reverand Al Sharpton, Sean Patrick Thomas, Diane warren, Lynn whitfield, and Baby Winans.

The show will air Monday on Bideninagural.org, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook starting at 8 p.m. ET.