| 16/02/2021 – 15:28 (GMT-4)
A new anthem has arrived in the world of Cuban urban music. Homeland and life is the new theme which brings together talent and commitment Maykel Osorbo, El Funky, Yotuel, Gente de Zona, Descemer Bueno and other Cuban musicians.
“Five years of yours are over, I twice two / sixty are over with dominoes,” says the chorus of a song describing the decline of the Cuban totalitarian regime after more than sixty years of denying people’s rights and freedoms.
Yotuel is the one who starts this emotional poem that attracts the feeling of a people who are tired of the repression, lies and manipulation of their leaders. “Today I invite you to go through my groups / to show you what your ideals are for,” the former Orishas member said.
“What do we celebrate if people rush / exchange Che Guevara and Martí for their currency?” Yotuel asks, given the island’s devastated economic landscape. “Everything has changed, it’s not the same / there is an abyss between you and me.”
In turn, the voices of Randy Malcom and Alexander Delgado are responsible for conveying in their lyrics the drama of a people struggling to regain their dignity. “We are the dignity of an entire people trampled on and with words that are nothing today.”
“No more lies / People demand freedom, no more doctrine / Let’s stop shouting homeland or death but Homeland and life”, say the voices of the Gente de Zona with their unmistakable stamp. A group whose trajectory in recent years describes an ethical reflection that its members have had the courage to face; Like Descemer Bueno, a musician with whom they collaborated on the hit Bailando, with Enrique Iglesias.
Patria y Vida ends with the voices of Maykel Osorbo and El Funky, two rebel rappers living in Cuba and challenging the monopoly of violence exercised by a totalitarian state. Recently, both rappers, linked to the San Isidro Movement (MSI), organized an online concert to raise funds to help Denis Solís, the rapper who was wrongfully imprisoned and for whom the hunger strike began at the MSI headquarters.
“They broke down our door, violated our temple / and the world is aware that the San Isidro Movement is still in force,” said Osorbo, one of the strikers in Damascus 955 headquarters, where security forces forcibly entered the state to to dismantle the protest.
“You are already left / you have nothing left, you are already coming down. / People are tired of holding on. / We are waiting for a new dawn “, El Funky films to close a song that promises to become a new anthem of that civil society that, inside and outside Cuba, demands a change.
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