Latin singer Chesca Positive for COVID, MLK day performance still

Latin singer Chesca – an artist who was supposed to be at Joe Biden‘s MLK Day Celebration – has just announced that she’s caught the coronavirus … but the show will continue, with her no less.

Chesca went to IG on Saturday to announce the news and wrote in Spanish that she had recently attended a recording session in a studio in Miami … where one of the producers looked sick. She says she asked if it was COVID-related, and he assured that it was not so – he said he was hungry.

Not the case, it turns out … Chesca says it was BOUGHT the whole time, because everyone in the studio contracted the virus that day. Chesca posted her positive test result, with a caption that read … “#F *** COVID.” Looks like she got a quick antigen test too.

Chesca tells TMZ … “Luckily none of us have bad symptoms and they feel ok. We all tested positive too. I have mild to 0 symptoms and I just feel good that I have a little body pain.”

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

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

Some of the people who will speak or sing / perform … Aloe Blacc, Rev. Dr. Bernice King, Martin Luther King III, Rep. Sharice Davids, Rosario Dawson, Second day, Yo-Yo Ma, Reverand Al Sharpton, Sean Patrick Thomas, Diane Warren, Lynn Whitfield, en Bebe Winans.

The program airs Monday on Bideninagural.org, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook from 8 p.m. ET.