| 01.02.2021 – 5:20 (GMT-4)
The famous Cuban singer-songwriter, Carlos Varela, celebrated the beginning of 2021 with a significant fragment of his song “The Boy, Dreams and the Hourglass”, which directly alludes to the need for change, while wishing his followers a happy new year and blessings.
“Although I have no illusions / something will have to change / although I dream of songs and others prefer to be silent”Varela wrote on his Facebook profile. Although Varela did not make a direct reference to the situation in Cuba, dozens of people interpreted it in the comments of his publication.
The fragment chosen by Varela to celebrate the new year in Cuba belongs to his 1995 album, Like fish, considered one of the most important in the recording career of the Cuban musician.
“This is the story of a child who stopped dreaming / who dreams of seeing a day that has not just arrived / but knows that there are others who dream the same / because maybe one day that damn dream / can become real” , also says the text to which the fragment refers.
In early December, Carlos Varela came out in defense of artists who demand an increase in political freedoms, creative and expressive in Cuba. “There are actors, musicians, playwrights, writers, who ask and want only respect for their ideas and the need for dialogue,” Varela said in an interview with CNN.
The important Cuban troubadour said that the people of Cuba are not stuck in a bubble of information that comes only from one side and specified that, thanks to social networks, people on the island feel more and more entitled to -express the criterion.
Earlier, the Cuban singer-songwriter had come out in his defense San Isidro strikers a strong text that launched questions, reflections and conclusions strongly involved in the current circumstances on the island.
“When will William Tell’s grandchildren be heard?”Carlos Varela asked himself in a letter in which he raised his voice in favor of art, the right to disagree and freedom of expression.
The musician said he did not know any of the strikers personally, but began by admitting that anyone willing to die for a cause deserves to be listened to with respect. For this reason, refusing to be an “accomplice in the silence of the choir”, he asked himself: “By what right can one decide who is an artist and who is not? Who is Cuban and who is not? ”; “Will we have to delete the word DIALOG from the Cuban dictionary at once?”
After other similar questions and a critical analysis of the evils that have characterized Cuban society in recent decades, one of his conclusions was that He does not live in the Cuba he dreamed of.
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