1 | 29/12/2020 – 19:27 (GMT-4)
“I still have faith in living in a Cuba open to change and away from all injustices,” said Cuban reggaeton player Yomil Hidalgo after receiving the Lucas Award for most popular video of the year for I have a battery.
“This 2020 has been a very sad and difficult year for Yomil and El Dany, I think my little brother (Dany) never imagined that this year we were going to receive this important recognition from Luke. It’s a sign that when what it surrounds you, it doesn’t transform, you have to transform yourself “, he commented previously.
On his Instagram, the artist reproduced his words and congratulated those who had to do with his success, as well as acknowledging that the doors to urban music are opening in Cuba.
On the gala of the Lluc and the award-winning Videl, the reggaeton player commented: today THE TRUE POPULAR MUSIC OF CUBA “.
The Lucas Awards are the most important in the field of music on the island. According to the project’s website, this year’s gala was held at the Teatro Astral, in Havana, between 26 and 29 December.
Yomil himself had charged against the San Isidro Movement earlier this month, after an Instagram user urged him to join the organization’s political cause against the political crisis Cuba is experiencing.
“I never supported the lack of respect, I support those who respect and all those who really want a well-being for Cuba, with freedom of expression and that every Cuban can earn a living by the sweat of his labor without limit, I never supported those who make money at the expense of the suffering of a people on foot, ”he said at the time.
The singer has been very controversial in his speeches on social media, sometimes criticized by his followers and others acknowledging the flaws of politics in Cuba.
That same December he shared with his followers a message in which he expressed his desire for a Cuba “without repression and without censorship.” The comment was part of a thread opened by the musician, in which he complained about the suspension of two concerts of his scheduled in the province of Holguin.
“We all deserve a better Cuba, because Cuba belongs to no one, Cuba belongs to everyone,” he had said in a shared post on his Instagram account in which he responded to a comment from reggaeton player El Chulo.
When in 2015 the singers returned to work together, as Yomil and El Dany, they defined as a duo of traptón-fusion of trap and reggaeton- who were among the best exponents of the urban music scene in Cuba night in the morning.
Their hit “Overdose” was in the top sales charts in the summer of 2016, and the year they were nominated for a Billboard Latin Music Award in the Artist of the Year category.
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