1 | 21/04/2021 – 16:47 (GMT-4)
Algeria Domínguez de León, mother of the renowned Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez, died this Wednesday, according to relatives on social media, who did not specify the cause of death.
“Even though I knew your departure was approaching, she’s never ready to lose a mother, I couldn’t say goodbye, but I stay with your love and the memories of everything we lived together. Not only you were my mother, Silvio’s, Mary’s, you were the mother of your grandchildren, of all our friends, acquaintances, you always took care of every heart that came into your life, “said Silvio’s sister , Anabell López, on Facebook.
“I want to remember you smiling and singing our song ‘Love me so much.’ Rest in peace, Dear Mother, you are light! Thank you, thank you, thank you!”, He added.
The troubadour had dedicated two of his records to his parents. The first, “Rodríguez”, in honor of his father, Dagoberto Rodríguez, and the second, “Domínguez”, in Algeria. The latter has a photo of his mother on the cover at 18 years old.
She also sings a song next to her son for that same phonogram. This is the issue The wind is you. “I’ve said it on another occasion, my mother is the music, although I think in a way mothers could be something like everyone’s music,” said the singer-songwriter in an interview for the site Sarró de the learner.
“We felt really good during the recording. She already knew the song from singing it so much and although she’s not very used to these tracks, we did very few shots. By the way, I left a comment about her, a guajiros riddle. at the beginning of the recording, when I’m telling him the distance to which he should be placed from the microphone, “he recounted on the subject they performed.
Algeria Domínguez Leon lived next to Dagoberto Rodriguez in the district of the Hill located in San Antonio of the Baths, present province of Artemisa, to 26 kilometers to the south of Havana, where Silvio was born.
In addition to household chores, Domínguez shared a singing duo with his sister Orquídia Domínguez during his adolescence, with whom he participated in radio stations and cultural events. He used to sing to his son the song “El colibrí”, from the popular tradition.
So far, the troubadour has not spoken publicly about the significant loss.