A Year Later, The Rogue ‘All Lives Matter’ Tenor Is Still Going Rogue

It's been more than a year since Remigio Pereira, former member of the opera pop quartet The Tenors, embarrassed his group and the whole country by replacing part of the lyrics to "O Canada" with "all lives matter" at a baseball game.

While doing a solo part of anthem during an MLB all-star game last July, Pereira sang, "We're all brothers and sisters. All lives matter to the great." Then he held up an All Lives Matter sign. He was subsequently kicked out of the group.

Though most of us have long since moved on—with the exception of yours truly, who wrote an unnecessary follow story in February—Pereira is evidently still stewing about the way things went down.

In a series of Facebook posts over the weekend, Pereira leaked audio recordings of what sound like heated conversations amongst him and the other Tenors that allegedly took place immediately after the baseball game incident.

"Well…it has been a year…'the right thing' has yet to be done…still no contact, still no resolution, still no promised public statement by The Tenors that I am not a racist," he wrote on Saturday in a post accompanying the first "leaked" recording. "Truth is, I have been living off my savings for the past year and I have run out. I own a business and am kept in the dark. No royalties, no profits, no nothing after 10 years…. I have a daughter who is bi-racial that I need to feed."

And with that he published the first of what's he's dubbed #TenorLeaks. Reached by VICE, a spokeswoman for The Tenors said the group has no comment on the leaks.

The first recording starts with a man's voice saying, "If we do something irrational like fire Remi, it's too strong a punishment for the crime right now." The man, who sounds like he's doing crisis communications consulting for the group, starts debating how to phrase a group statement when Pereira's voice interjects, "Why can't it just be—" but almost immediately he's cut off by two guys we assume are other Tenors, shouting "you have no say, you have NO SAY!" and "Do you want to ruin this group?"

The second recording, which Pereira prefaced by writing "Warning… Rated R for language," is pure gold.

The two-minute clip (you can and should listen to it above) opens with one of the men shouting "You just made us look like fucking racists!" while the other yells "Black Lives Matter is THEIR fucking line!"

"I want you out of this fucking group! I want you gone! I want you gone," the first guy continues. He suggests they tell people "Remi was off his meds" to which Pereira responds "I'm not on any meds."

"It doesn't matter" replies his presumed group mate as another says "maybe you should be dude."

One of the Tenors (we think) then addresses Pereira: "You're not healthy. This is not rational behaviour. You just fucked our entire career. And you need to do whatever you have to do to get it back, which includes going to rehab, and having someone follow you, and getting therapy and something, where it's like you're diagnosed with bipolar and this was an unfortunate accident."

At this point, Pereira defends his views on all lives matter.

"I'm not gonna lie," he says. "What I'm gonna say is the truth, OK? That I believe in everybody's life. All life on earth is important."

The clip cuts out for a bit and comes back to the guys spitballing a public statement again. They discuss using a line like, "He will not be performing with the group until further notice and has agreed to psychological help," but then one of the guys says, "Not psychological, 'cause that opens up another can of worms."

It ends with Pereira upset that people are calling him racist on Twitter.

"I would wish you guys could do at least one thing and say that we are not racist and I am not racist. Can you do that?" He's instructed to stop looking at Twitter.

In the third tape, Pereira triples down on "all lives matter."

"I'm saying the lives of everybody, the lives of everyone. Everybody's important, whether you're cop, whether you're black, whether you're Asian. Everybody's life is important. Everyone. And I'm sorry that I put the group in this predicament," he says. There's a long silence. It sounds like one of the Tenors says "we're never gonna get another anthem."

The guy giving them communications advice then compares the scandal to when Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies was busted with cocaine.

"This is what breaks groups up," he says. "This is as bad as what's-his-name getting caught with cocaine and that cost them $10 million. The Barenaked Ladies."

"I didn't commit a crime. Did I kill anybody?" replies Pereira.

The clip ends with a compilation of screenshots of tweets and headlines about gigs The Tenors have played without Pereira including the Grey Cup and an Elton John AIDS Foundation fundraiser. It also shows screenshots of how many followers the group has on various social media accounts.

The last image is a screenshot of an Instagram post from Sebastien Izambard, a member of the opera group Il Divo, that says "All lives matter."

Pereira has also posted a photo of the former quartet on his Facebook fan page with the caption "#photoshop #tenorleaks."

When I interviewed Pereira earlier in the year, he lectured me on the virtues of "agape love." He also, according to his Facebook posts, is a flat-earther who often posts memes of his own inspirational quotes.

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