1 | 29/12/2020 – 19:27 (GMT-4)
“I still have the confidence to live in a Cuba open to change and away from all injustices,” said Cuban reggaeton player Yomil Hidalgo after receiving the Lucas Award for the most popular video of the year for this subject. I have a stack.
“This 2020 has been a very sad and difficult year for Yomil and El Dany, I think my younger brother (Dany) never imagined that this year we will receive this important recognition from Lucas. It is a sign that when what surrounds you does not change, you have to transform “, he commented previously.
On Instagram, the artist reproduced his words and congratulated those who had to deal with his success, as well as acknowledging that the doors of urban music open in Cuba.
Regarding the Lucas gala and the award-winning video, the reggaeton commented: “The presentation was very tough, thank you very much for the invitation and for reopening a space for urban music, I actually won this position by working hard and being today TRUE POPULAR MUSIC FROM CUBA “.
The Lucas Awards are the most important in the music field on the island. According to the project’s website, this year’s gala took place at the Astral Theater in Havana on December 26-29.
Yomil himself had attacked the San Isidro Movement earlier this month, after an Instagram user urged him to join the organization’s political cause against the political crisis in Cuba.
“I will never support disrespect, I support those who respect and all those who truly want their well-being for Cuba, with freedom of expression and that every Cuban can earn a living by the sweat of their labor without limit, no I will never support those who earn money at the expense of the suffering of an ordinary people, “he said at the time.
The singer was very controversial in his interventions on social networks, sometimes criticized by his followers and others acknowledging the failures of Cuban politics.
In December, he shared a message with his followers expressing his desire for a Cuba “without repression and without censorship.” The comment was part of an open thread by the musician, in which he complained about the suspension of two of his concerts scheduled in the province of Holguín.
“We all deserve a better Cuba, because Cuba does not belong to anyone, Cuba does not belong to everyone,” he had said in a post distributed on his Instagram account in which he responded to a comment by the reggaeton El Chulo.
When in 2015 the singers returned to work together, already like Yomil and El Dany, they defined themselves as a duo of traptón – fusion of trap and reggaeton – who were among the best exponents of the urban music scene in Cuba. night after night. Tomorrow.
Their hit “Sobredosis” was at the top of the sales charts in the summer of 2016, and the following year they were nominated for the Billboard Latin Music Award in the Artist of the Year category.
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