2 | 15/03/2021 – 19:25 (GMT-4)
the comedian Alexis Valdés and the singer Willy Chirino they premiered this Monday the musical theme I am Cuban, A collective project that in just five hours has achieved more than 33,000 views on the YouTube video platform.
the presentation of the song it was done through a funny video in which Willy calls Alexis, who was fixing an old motorcycle, to invite him to eat the traditional Cuban malanga fries.
The unmistakable trumpet of the musician is heard in the subject Arturo Sandoval and it is already circulating among Cubans inside and outside the island, who proudly shout the phrase.
Its author, Alexis Valdes, told the news agency EFE that the song mentions different countries in the world as a sign of “national pride and dignity” and vindicates the Cubanism of “all of us who live outside Cuba”.
“I wrote it backwards because someone from the Cuban Ministry of Culture, a year and a half ago, referred to people who question government policy as not being Cubans, especially those who live outside Cuba,” he said. explain the popular comedian.
He explained that “as I wrote it, it became a song of national unity, of national pride“But the start was a claim to a right.”
“In Miami or Japan I’m Cuban (…). In Madrid, New York or the Vatican, and if I go to the moon, I’ll be Cuban (…), on a sailboat on the high seas I’m Cuban, even if I’m in Madagascar, I’m Cuban. Even if I can’t come back, I’ll be Cuban., Says the letter of the number that has begun to go viral on social media.
“This song was made between countries and cities,” Valdés explained when introducing the Cuban musicians who took part in the project.
Among them are the arranger Yandro Reinoso, resident in Budapest (Hungary); drummer Leandro Mena, in Las Vegas (USA); the third René Avich, in Sarasota, Florida; Arturo Sandoval on trumpet from Los Angeles (California) and Yoandi Vera, also on trumpet, who participated from Santa Clara (Cuba).
In the low one it was Maikel Dinza from Santiago of Cuba, whereas in the choirs they took part the same arranger and Michel Carballo with his key.
The mixing and mastering was done by Wady D., of the company M Plus Media, based in Hialeah (South Florida), who usually works with Chirino.
Valdés reported that for the realization of the video several people sent their images from different parts of the world, As is the case with Nelson Peña, principal dancer of Abay State Ballet Theater Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Chirino, meanwhile, had explained in his networks that they chose this date to release the song for historical reasons, In reference to the Baraguá Protest -March 15, 1878- starring the Mambi general Antonio Maceo in front of the Spanish Martinez Fields.
“Friends, one of the most important events in the history of Cuban freedom and that is most closely linked to the current reality on the island is LA PROTESTA Baragua on March 15, 1878. That is why Alexis Valdés chose this date as the release of the song I AM CUBAN, which he wrote and we recorded together last January “, said the popular salsero.
I am Cuban it is dedicated to all Cubans who walk around the world and keep their roots and identity alive, He assured.
Recently, Valdés and Chirino were invited to participate in the virtual meeting of Cuban artists with members of the European Parliament, Under the title “Homeland and Life, Art and Politics United by Cuba”, following the success of the song Homeland and Life, Played by Yotuel, Zone People, Descemer Bé, Maykel Osorbo and the Funky.
At this meeting, they denounced the Cuban regime’s arbitrariness against artists living in other countries, such as themselves and Sandoval himself, who have been banned from returning to the island where they were born.