| 21/12/2020 – 13:42 (GMT-4)
Cuban reggaeton Ovid Crespo -better known in the art world as Ovi– He was arrested in Cuba with Mexican artist Natanael Cano while both were distributing food and money in a neighborhood in the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Ovi, who lives in the United States, traveled to the island with his friend Nathanael to see his relatives and get to know his friend in the neighborhood where he grew up. However, what they did not expect was to be held for about eight hours for distributing street aid to people who knew him before he became famous.
“I went to see my family who had not seen her for about 3 years and I was very happy to be able to return to the country where I was born. I was helping the boys who grew up with me, I was helping my relatives. I had some problems there because the Cuban government is very strange, “the artist told a Mexican television program and specified that he was chosen because he wanted to form an uprising against the government.
“We started helping the boys in the neighborhood and the police came and asked us if we were giving money for demonstrations or counter-revolution. We had difficulties, but thank God I was able to see my family … I was in the neighborhood where I was born and wanted to help with my bills in money, with food or clothes, but it looks like someone called the police.In Cuba there is communism, that no one can be rich, everyone has to be poor, “the singer added.
“They detained us because we were making a video in the neighborhood, I live in Ciego de Ávila and we started giving money in the neighborhood, to children and the elderly. The police, the State Security and the army arrived with dogs, they searched our camera to see if we can say anything against the government. We were not doing anything wrong, we are just helping the people, “he said, although this did not stop him from being arrested for several hours.
After his release, Natanael Cano immediately returned to Los Angeles. The reggaeton player stated that the Mexican singer has decided not to return to Cuba until there is freedom on the island.
Ovi, in turn, stayed with his family for another two days. The singer lamented the harsh situation in the country and the precarious living conditions in which many Cubans survive.
At just 20 years old, Crespo flew from Cuba to Ecuador and from there crossed different borders on foot for 25 days to reach the United States.
When he arrived in the country, he had no family or friends and confessed that he often felt ill. However, thanks to his efforts, he went from chaining jobs in Arizona to recording in a Los Angeles studio his first album, entitled Buen Viaje, under the label Rancho Humilde.
Ovidio Crespo, now 24, has gone from studying for a career in medical science in Cuba to being a representative of the so-called “tumbado corridos”, which marks a new path in the urban genre by combining the sounds of that genre with Mexican corridos.
“We all go through a difficult situation, every artist knows what happened, people see you when you already hit, but I don’t know what is behind your past or your history. Everyone has a different path,” he said in October this year in statements to the Efe agency.
“The problem is that my Cuba, my beautiful island is not so beautiful, I don’t know if it’s the Government, but I don’t know why there is so much poverty. There is nothing, no work, no dreams, no goals,” he said. then.