8 | 15/04/2021 – 14:29 (GMT-4)
Michala He acknowledges that he fears the police in the United States more than in Cuba and assures that he takes some precautions in his meetings with US law enforcement officers.
On a visit to Carlucho’s show to talk about your subject A dream -recently released- in the last segment of the interview, before a comment by the presenter on the need to end the dictatorship in Cuba and the police to stop beating, the reggaeton player took the opportunity to confess “from the heart” that he trembles when he sees the North American police.
“I’m also terribly afraid of the police here”El Micha acknowledged that he was referring to the US police.
“You’re afraid of the police wherever you want,” Carlucho said. “You know, I wasn’t so scared of the police there (Cuba)”said the reggaeton, who said that since he arrived in the United States three years ago, the first thing he saw on TV was a policeman walking on the face of a black man.
Reggaeton, with the spontaneity that characterizes it, took the opportunity to tell one recent episode, when a police officer stopped him on the road for allegedly speeding.
El Micha says that when the police officer approached the car, he clung to the steering wheel with both hands and, although the license was in the “kangaroo” next to him, when the officer requested the documentation to grant him a fine (of 255 dollars), what The first thing he did “just in case” was to ask the policeman if he could get his hands off the wheel to give him his driver’s license.
Despite El Micha’s opinion of the American police, much of the interview revolved around him A dream, to become one of the musical themes of the moment for him the demand for political change in Cuba of which the lyrics of the song are bearer.
“I felt that I was the spokesperson for a reality, I felt that things were not right, that the time had come and that it was my turn.”said El Micha, for whom his song only describes the truth of what is happening on the island.
“I don’t feel the need to fight back with mine, the play was made by me, it was my feeling, what a people thinks, the situation that happens,” he replied when Carlucho asked him about the possibility that the Cuban regime would retaliate with his family on the island.
On March 31, the reggaeton singer released his new single, in which he denounced the repression, the lack of freedom of expression, the lack of food and medicine, the long lines and even the foreign exchange on the island.
“A change is needed, even by accident. Every day it gets worse, Havana can’t take it anymore, people say ‘It’s okay now!'” “Now they’ve changed the currency in the middle of a pandemic, freedom of speech, that speaking is a tragedy “;” Did you find out? There are no painkillers. The country needs a change, better times. For the children to eat, the mothers to stop eating “and” My suffering, let it end. the end. Abuse, put an end to it. The Cuban’s anguish, leave him alone “, are some of the fragments in which El Micha attacked the situation the island is going through.
“No one sent me, I’m just doing it. I’m telling the truth, telling what I see. Hey, people keep going to get better. And in an empty room a mother keeps suffering,” he says at another point in the play, in whose video – filmed in black and white – he appeared dressed in a guayabera and smoking tobacco.
Micha joined A dream to the political awakening that the Gente de Zona has already played in the second half of 2020. Until now, reggaeton had preferred to ignore political issues, an attitude that brought him criticism.
A few days ago, El Micha publicly thanked the rapper and activist, Maykel Osorbo, for put your song on the street on the day when a group of urban artists walked the crowded streets of Old Havana while singing especially rebellious music Homeland and life and the aforementioned Cuban reggaeton premiere.