Michael Franti is sharing his side of the story after Spanish-American singer Victoria Canal accused someone in the music industry of sexual abuse. Last week, Canal, 27, released a statement on Instagram claiming that an unnamed “very powerful” man abused and groomed her eight years ago at the start of her career.

San Francisco-based singer, songwriter, and activist Michael Franti has denied the allegations of s*xual abuse and grooming made by musician Victoria Canal last week.

The Slowly, It Dawns artist recounted her harrowing experience involving a “very powerful, decades-older man” recently on Instagram. As mentioned earlier, Victoria Canal asserted that the person invited her after discovering her on the internet. In her own words, the singer-songwriter posted: