| 16/02/2021 – 15:28 (GMT-4)
A new anthem has arrived in the universe of urban music in Cuba. Homeland and Life is the new theme which brings together the talent and commitment of Maykel Osorbo, El Funky, Yotuel, Gent de Zona, Descemer Bueno and other Cuban musicians.
“Your five new self is over, I have doubled two / sixty years have passed and the domino is over,” says the return of a song that describes the decline of the Cuban totalitarian regime after more than sixty years of denial. rights and freedoms to the people.
It is Yotuel who begins this emotional poem that draws the feeling of a people who have grown tired of the repression, lying and manipulation of their rulers. “Today I invite you to walk through my lots / bread to show you what your ideals are for,” he opens, saying the former member of Orishas.
“What do we celebrate if people walk fast / change to Che Guevara and Martí for the currency?” Yotuel asks in the face of the island’s devastated economic landscape. “Everything has changed, it’s not the same anymore / there’s an abyss between you and me.”
For their part, the voices of Randy Malcom and Alexander Delgado are responsible for conveying in their verses the drama of a people struggling to regain their dignity. “We are the dignity of an entire people trampled at gunpoint and words that are nothing today.”
“No more lies / The people demand freedom, no more doctrine / We no longer call homeland or death but Homeland and Life,” say the voices of People in the area with their unmistakable timbre. A group whose trajectory in recent times describes an ethical reflection that its members have had the courage to face; like Descemer Bé, a musician with whom he collaborated on the hit Ballant, with Enrique Iglesias.
Homeland and Life ends with the voices of Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, two protest rappers who live in Cuba and challenge the monopoly of violence exercised by a totalitarian state. Recently, both rappers, linked to the Moviment Sant Isidre (MSI), starred in an online concert to raise funds to help Denis Solís, the unjustly imprisoned rapper for whom the hunger strike began at the headquarters of the ‘MSI.
“They broke down our door, they violated our temple / and the world is aware that the San Isidro Movement is still in place,” says Osorbo, one of the strikers at the headquarters of Dames 955, in which agents of state security to dismantle the protest.
“You’re left over / there’s nothing left, you’re going down. / The people are tired of enduring. / We’re waiting for a new dawn,” El Funky shoots to close a topic that promises to become new anthem of this civil society that, inside and outside Cuba, is demanding change.
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