16/02/2021 – 3:28 PM (GMT-4)
A new anthem has reached the universe of Cuban urban music. Homeland and Life is the new theme that the talent and commitment of Maykel Osorbo, El Funky, Yotuel, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno and other Cuban musicians.
“Your five nines is over, I double sixty-two years are over with dominoes,” says the chorus of a song that describes the decline of the Cuban totalitarian regime after more than sixty years of denying human rights and freedoms.
It is Yotuel who starts this emotional poem that evokes the feeling of a people tired of the oppression, lies and manipulation of their leaders. “Today I invite you to walk through my lots / to show you what your ideals are for”, the former Orishas member begins by saying.
“What do we celebrate when people are in a hurry / trade Che Guevara and Martí for their currency?” Yotuel asks, given the island’s devastating economic panorama. “Everything has changed, it is not the same anymore / between you and me there is an abyss.”
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 with words that are nothing today.”
“No more lies / People ask for freedom, no more doctrine / Let’s no longer call homeland or death, but Homeland and Life”, say the voices of Gente de Zona with their unmistakable timbre. A group whose trajectory has recently described an ethical reflection that its members dared to face; Like Descemer Bueno, a musician with whom they collaborated on the hit Bailando, along with Enrique Iglesias.
Patria y Vida ends with the voices of Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, two rebellious rappers living in Cuba who challenge the monopoly of violence of a totalitarian state. Recently, both rappers, affiliated with the San Isidro movement (MSI), organized an online concert to raise money to help Denis Solís, the rapper who was wrongfully imprisoned and for whom the hunger strike started at MSI’s headquarters.
“They broke our door, they raped our temple / and the world is aware that the San Isidro movement still exists,” said Osorbo, one of the strikers at Damas 955 headquarters, where security agents forcibly defeat state to protest.
“You are already over / you have nothing left, you are already getting out. / People got tired of holding on. / We are waiting for a new dawn, ”shoots El Funky to conclude a song that promises to be a new civil society anthem that calls for change inside and outside Cuba.
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