1 | 16/02/2021 – 21:07 (GMT-4)
The new theme of urban music that is already reaching the ears of Cubans, Homeland and Life, Also released its video on Tuesday.
This is a collaboration between Maykel Osorbo, El Funky, Yotuel, Gent de Zona, Descemer Bueno and other Cuban musicians dedicated to demanding an end to the Cuban regime and the freedom of Cuba.
The video is an extraordinary fact, and it was possible thanks to the union of this star team, those shown in the video singing from Miami and Havana.
The direction was by Asiel Babastro, one of the favorite directors of urban music in Cuba, and had the special appearance of the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, the work with the San Isidro Movement has generated empathy which dismisses this song.
“It’s over, it’s over, 60 years of dominoes,” he said, referring to the Cuban government, which has held power for more than 60 years with a one-party authoritarian regime.
The video alternates images of the leading musicians with excerpts from recent videos that exemplify repression in Cuba, such as the demonstration of the young Cuban Luis Robles on the Boulevard de Sant Rafaél last December, the assault on the Sant Isidre Movement and the demonstration of artists that took place on November 27 in front of the Ministry of Culture.
In a video call made by the artists before the video premiered, Osorbo and Otero Alcántara noticed that almost everyone in the clip was black, connected by their humble origins and the neighborhoods that had seen them grow.
The song proposes a new slogan to replace the old and dogmatic official “homeland or death”, used by the government: “We no longer call homeland or death, but Homeland and Life,” sings Alexander de Gent of the area emotionally.
The images in the video show a burning tribune, which may be an allegory of the end of the official Cuban ideology and a possible reference to the work. A forum for democratic peace, By the Cuban painter Antònia Eiriz, and which was censored by the government of Fidel Castro in 1967.
The image of Martí next to that of George Washington heads and ends the video, a clear reference to the democratic ideals of the two historical figures and a visual resource that approaches the diaspora of the United States with the Cubans on the island.
In just a few hours on Tuesday, the video already surpassed 25,700 views and has all the numbers to become an anthem sung by many Cubans, who have been demanding the Cuban government political, economic freedoms and the end of the dictatorship.
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