R&B
star Akon has been accused of going to extreme lengths to avoid catching
Ebola during a concert in Africa ... by crowd-surfing inside a giant
plastic bubble.
The
'Locked Up' singer climbed inside the airtight blow-up during a
performance in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sunday and
rolled over the crowd, pushed along by the outstretched hands of 60,000
screaming concert-goers.
But
his actions prompted breathless reports from certain media outlets
that, rather than just being a creative way of performing closer to his
fans, it was a cynical attempt to shield himself from the deadly virus
that is sweeping West Africa. #WATCH video below:
'The Ebola
virus is no joke,' harrumphed The Source website. 'And to avoid
contracting it from anybody, when Akon left the stage to crowd surf with
the people that were attending his concert, he did so in a huge plastic
protective bubble.'
What
the website did not report was that the five-time Grammy nominee has
performed inside the stage prop on a number of previous occasions
including in Perth, Australia, and Dubai, both in 2010. Neither of those
countries were battling Ebola outbreaks at the time.
'As
Akon, I see myself as a child of Africa,' the artist told the crowd,
who is of Senegalese descent and spent time in Senegal as a child, which
he calls his 'hometown'.
Akon is not the only music star with a
penchant for inflatable-bubble crowd-surfing either. American rock band
The Flaming Lips are also known for the crowd-pleaser, as is DJ Diplo.
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