some Cuba’s most popular urban artists came together to launch a strong critique of the regime and request a system change through a song. “No more lies, my people are asking for freedom, no more doctrines. We no longer call ‘Homeland or death’ but ‘Homeland and life,'” says Alexander Delgado, of Zone People, in a snippet of the topic presented live Tuesday on social media.
In this song for freedom they participate Yotuel Romero, Area People, Descemer Well and rappers living on the island Maykel Osorbo i The Funky.
Making this collaboration has been very emotional for the artists: “It was a really deep thing,” said Yotuel Romero, of Orishas, during the virtual launch.
Romero urged his audience to say “it’s over, it’s over the lie, it’s over the deception, it’s over the torture, it’s over the imprisonment, it’s over the prison, it’s over the no let yourself be the way you are “.
The musicians sent a solidarity greeting to the independent artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, to the San Isidro Movement, on the 27N, El Funky, and Osorbo, with whom they briefly established a connection from Cuba. Apparently, during the communication the authorities cut off his internet access.
Descemer Well was shown “Super happy to be making history”. For the singer this theme “marks a before and an after” and will serve to raise awareness among the audience that follows them.
Urban music is very popular on the island, especially among young people. In 2020, internationally recognized figures, such as members of the people in the area, openly questioned the dictatorship, which involved them being the target of attacks by officialdom, which called them “mercenaries” and “terrorists. musicals “.
“‘Homeland and life’ of these bold illustrators,” Yotuel Romero joked to present the video, alluding to the racist comments suffered by supporters of the regime, who point out the color of the skin and attribute the success achieved by these artists in the education they received in Cuba.
“It was a tremendous responsibility to unite these people who have circled the globe,” he noted Asiel Babastro, director of the video clip in which they appear images of the quartered ones of San Isidro, several activists and even a fragment of the protest realized by Luis Robles in the street San Rafael of Havana.
“The video shows the honesty of these artists, the speech of them. We don’t want them to lie to us anymore, we want to have the right to think differently, to see a change, not to give up more years of life without a change,” he said. dir Babastro.
This song is the feeling of many Cubans who are in and out of Cuba, Expressed Alexander Delgado and stressed that they are not funded by anyone: “this is a heartfelt thing we are doing for people.”
Delgado invited to internalize the subject and invited to continue being united to the cause of the freedom of Cuba.
“It needs to get everyone’s attention for them to put their finger on the system,” Ben commented during the presentation.