TuCandela Bar — Restaurant in Miami

This review is specifically for DJ Andre Ferro.

My husband and I booked him for our wedding back in 2019 for our 2020 wedding (April). When the pandemic hit, we had to reschedule everything and we finally chose a new date- 2/5/2022. After almost 3 years of planning a wedding and dealing with the same vendors, we were so excited to finally get married this month. A week before the wedding, I noticed a post on instagram stating that Andre Ferro was scheduled to DJ an event in New York the same day as our scheduled wedding (2/5/2022). We reached out to him to make sure everything was fine and that he would be there. He assured us everything was ready and fine. On February 5th the day of our wedding, he didn't show up. Instead, he sent 3 colleagues in his place. The following mistakes were noted the night of the wedding:

His colleague got our first dance wrong. All 3 of his colleagues were drinking alcohol. Normally, this is not usual for vendors to be drinking on the job. Terrible transitions between songs. Particularly during the hora loca, he played slow songs. He also played YMCA, Mambo #5 and Journey MULTIPLE TIMES. This is supposed to be a well-known DJ in Miami- and his colleagues were playing garbage.

My husband and I noticed many of our family and friends commenting on how terrible the music was at our wedding. It was so embarrassing that multiple people noticed. They noticed so much that they were constantly requesting music and the DJ wasn't listening to requests! I am truly not sure if the colleague he sent in his place was even a real DJ, that's how terrible he was.

The morning after the wedding, my husband and I reached out to Dj Andre Ferro to communicate our disappointment. When we went down the list of things that went wrong, he apologized. When we brought up why he wasn't there, he told us that he had tested positive for Covid on Saturday morning and had to cancel his flight to New York. So, he had never planned to be at the wedding to begin with. I asked for a partial refund and he told me the only thing he could offer was to DJ my next event for free. I have been so disappointed since the wedding that I've contemplated writing reviews anywhere I could.

Fast forward 2 weeks and come to find that DJ Andre Ferro DID in fact make it to New York the day we booked him for our wedding! So not only did he never plan to show up to our wedding, he never communicated that to us. AND his colleague played terrible music.

I write this to let you know how terrible Dj Andre Ferro's services are, so that you may not trust or book him for ANY event. He will probably play YMCA 3 times and...

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