| 03/03/2021 – 09:32 (GMT-4)
Alexander Delgado, member of people Zone, He explained during the meeting with the Mayor of Miami, Rosa Maria Payá and other musicians from Patria i Vida the reasons why they were linked for a time with the Cuban Government, and specified that from the island they have come to ask them to return.
In a detailed explanation during the program Coffee Talk, Moderated by Enrique Santos, Alexander also abounded in the circumstances of his public greeting to Miguel Díaz-Canel during Laura Pausini’s concert in Havana, and in other details of her relationship with the Cuban authorities.
The singer explains that they came to be censored on the island in the early days, when they were not yet famous, but he needs that once they gained popularity with dancing, the Cuban government tried to put them on their side and keep them in this position at all costs.
“The government was very aware of the scope of one and they tried to keep us close.”, Alexander stressed.
“We never perceived this because the best thing we went to Cuba for was to see our families and to have the opportunity to sing to people, which was what we always did.”, He added, and points out that it was he who first realized what was happening.
Alexander cites as one of the highlights of this recognition of the situation when they took Diaz-Canel to Pausini’s concert and sent him a note telling him he had to greet him.
“The only way we had to reach the public was by legal means so if you didn’t have them (the government) you couldn’t do an event of this magnitude,” he said in reference to the concert of the Italian singer, and took the opportunity to complain about various circumstances and obstacles that surrounded this presentation.
“We met with the Minister of Culture the guy tells us he doesn’t know Laura Pausini. It was crazy,” he said to sum up the experience.
The musician says that although the government was already aware that they lived in the United States most of the time, on several occasions from the government they tried to get them to reside on the island.
Alexander has also alluded to problems importing a car he had bought in the US and didce that after paying to enter the country he spent even a year without a plate.
Delgado said that even after publicly showing opposition to the Cuban government, which happened in September last year, they were even asked to return to the country, which was not going to happen. .
“They initially started sending me ‘listen you can come in’ orders, but I know that’s a lie.”, Assured the musician, who referred to a call his mother received at the end of the year from the Ministry of Culture saying: “Listen, they say the boys are coming at the end of the year”, which was false .
“If I go in, here if you can‘ turn me off ’because I’m in your territory,” Alexander concluded, noting that they are already in the position they want. “Our position is already well defined, and they already know that they can count on us for whatever it is.”, He concluded in reference to his current permanent residence in the United States and his political stance.
About participation in Homeland and Life, Randy Malcom, Explained that at first they were nervous about the proposal because it was their first song with these characteristics, but then they concluded that it was necessary.
Although self-described as a “political ignoramus,” Randy Malcom added: “We have a powerful weapon that is our voice and it is our music”, And it was as a result of which they decided to participate.
“We’re going to do it our way, we’re going to tell the truth through music and through what it’s all given us, which is art and culture,” he said, concluding that “when things it is these from the heart that become the most powerful weapon. “
The duo Gent de la zona has been the subject of several attacks from the pro-government press after the premiere of Homeland and Life, Occurred on February 16.
In First Impact Statements (Univision) during the celebration of the Our Awards, The musicians they sent a message to the island government: “Until Cuba is free we will not stop.”
“By now all the leaders of Cuba have come out to attack us, to say that we are financed, all with a rather old and quite wrong concert, and we want to make it clear that we will continue in defense of the town of we will continue to promote this song PgATRIA i VEast and until Cuba is free we will stop, “Alexander said.
After the attacks and threats of the authorities that took place in the last two weeks, Alexander Delgado came to hold the government accountable for the safety of his family in Cuba.