{"id":190296,"date":"2018-12-09T19:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=190296"},"modified":"2018-12-09T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T00:25:21","slug":"this-is-cuban-music-and-im-going-to-give-it-to-you-live-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/music-culture\/this-is-cuban-music-and-im-going-to-give-it-to-you-live-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Cuban Music, And I\u2019m Going to Give It to You Live, Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cima<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My old friends call me <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Manta<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They\u2019re friends from when I started with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trova<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and my buddies from high school, when I did a bit of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reggaeton<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I used to talk a lot. I used to distract the teachers so we wouldn\u2019t have to do what we were supposed to. That\u2019s why they gave me that nickname. But now I\u2019m Cimafunk.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Or Cima. Or Erick, sometimes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Qu\u00e9 cosa es CIMAFUNK ? \/\/ Who is CIMAFUNK ?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6c5PNGvf6Pc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a favorite bolero. It\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RvMbzBBef7o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deb\u00ed llorar<\/a>\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sung by Freddy [<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I really like it a lot. I don\u2019t watch sports, although I did pretend I was an athlete. I practiced track and field, Greco-Roman wrestling, and boxing. My mother told me that I had to study first and afterwards I could do what I wanted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s true what the song \u201cLa sandunguita\u201d[<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3]<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> says, \u201cno one can take away what you\u2019ve been given,\u201d but watch out: you have to see what <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sandunga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was given and by whom. I studied Medicine for a few years, and I gave it up for Music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I sing to happiness. To a state of mental happiness, in which people can enjoy my music. And listen to it doing whatever. What each person decides to do with my music is their problem. If they\u2019re dancing, or if they\u2019re cooking. My intention is to make people feel good, for them to enjoy themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m afraid of anything that isn\u2019t doing what I like and that prevents me from taking the time to do what I like. I\u2019ve done a lot of things in order to eat and make a living. I don\u2019t mean only music \u2013 I\u2019ve also done manual labor. I wouldn\u2019t kill anybody over a piece of bread. There are always other ways to do things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To my \u201cpatients\u201d[<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4]<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I prescribe systematic doctor\u2019s visits. My therapy depends on the person\u2019s illness. They are offered specialized therapy. There\u2019s something for everyone: there are vegetables and there are sausages. It depends on the illness. What\u2019s wrong with the black man? And you\u2019re asking me? Well, you\u2019ll have to ask her. She\u2019s the one who pretends she doesn\u2019t know, but she keeps appearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cimafunk - Paciente (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Q3o7tl8N8U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>Racism, awareness<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like to talk about my grandmother. Usually I\u2019m not asked about her. My grandmother, and I still feel it like that, she\u2019s here, with me. She\u2019s like a futurist lighthouse. Things happen to me which she had already told me would happen to me. I get supposedly new information, but which she had already given me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My grandmother educated me in a very traditional way. With a great deal of love, and with norms of respect and education at home; she was very serious about that. She suffered from racism when she was a child. She lived in an isolated part of the countryside and experienced racial differentiation. There was a barrier in that town (in the province of Pinar del R\u00edo): \u201ccolored people here and whites over there.\u201d She always had that trauma. She made the greatest effort so that all her children would go to school. I have an aunt who\u2019s a surgeon, an uncle is an engineer, another aunt works in public health. They all went to university. Some neighbors used to say to that aunt of mine, the surgeon: \u201cwhen have you seen a black woman studying to be a doctor?\u201d All the education my family received was based on improving themselves and studying. And in subtle, respectful communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ll be sincere with you, my sensitivity about racism happened through history rather than having lived it. My family took up almost a quarter of the block. Three of my great-uncles lived there, each one with his children. Some of the great-uncles\u2019 children had left, but others continued there. One of my great-uncles had a carpentry shop. My uncles lived in my grandfather\u2019s house, my entire family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My family always deserved respect. It was, and is, a beloved family. My grandmother passed away, but my great-aunts who are alive are people who are as respected and beloved as she was. Everybody goes there all the time. I remember how the people used to go to talk to my grandmother. Everyone knew her. We were very well-educated children. If grownups were ever visiting at home, we never came in through the living room, we used to go around to enter. We never interrupted the grownups\u2019 conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190300\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-6-1024x683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-190300 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-6-1024x683-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"I sing to happiness. To a state of mental happiness, in which people can enjoy my music. Photo: Denise Guerra\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-6-1024x683-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-6-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-6-1024x683-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I sing to happiness. To a state of mental happiness, in which people can enjoy my music. Photo: Denise Guerra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m talking about the countryside, which at times is a bit more conservative in its way of thinking. Of course, there were manifestations of racism, but as a child I didn\u2019t experience them. What I got was something else: \u201cthose people are very educated. They are blacks who have gone to school. They are intelligent blacks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By saying that, now you know there\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">something <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">behind it. When you\u2019re older you start analyzing and you see that where we lived there were only two black families. Racism was lived like something cultural. What there is of racism in Cuba\u2019s rural zones is some type of \u201csegregation\u201d between whites and blacks, but as a long-time form of culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until now, what I have left was the history my grandmother lived, what she used to tell me about it. Her conception. I notice it more now when I think about how she used to say that \u201cin this house you can\u2019t speak loudly so that the whites don\u2019t say that these blacks are noisy and loudmouthed.\u201d She was referring to the white neighbors next door. That conception started entering my head. There was real suffering. She lived it and carried it inside her. Her conception helped her to transform the experience to help us. It transmitted her feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of my friends were white. That\u2019s normal. I never felt uncomfortable with that. It was up to me to always see the positive. To assume it as identity. It\u2019s good to know what happened. It\u2019s good to know history, especially the history of my people. When you know it, you are more aware. I know there are cases and such, and there comes a time when you have an awareness of your conviction, of your right as a human being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The market: croquettes and what\u2019s hot<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190301\" style=\"width: 715px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-1-715x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-190301 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-1-715x1024-715x1024.jpg\" alt=\"I\u2019m afraid of anything that isn\u2019t doing what I like and that prevents me from taking the time to do what I like&quot;. Photo: Denise Guerra\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-1-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-1-715x1024-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I\u2019m afraid of anything that isn\u2019t doing what I like and that prevents me from taking the time to do what I like&#8221;. Photo: Denise Guerra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people make a single and try to sell it. Then they make another and another, and when they have several, if they work, they make a record and sell it as such. The issue is that the record as a product has lost value. Internet has been fundamental in this transformation. It has made the market function differently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I came to the conclusion that I\u2019m not interested in genres. I don\u2019t want to make a funk or a rumba record. I want to make a record of songs I like, no matter what genre they are. I put them together and give them to people. \u201cParar el tiempo,\u201d a funk-record-ballad, is on it. There is \u201cMe voy,\u201d inspired by Nigerian Afro pop, with a conga and a Cuban tres <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tumba\u2019o<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rhythm, or \u201cPonte pa\u2019 lo tuyo,\u201d which is funk with cha-cha. If you trust in what you\u2019re doing, you can do whatever you want with your music. That way the relationship with the market is more flexible. If you\u2019re doing a good job, they can tell you \u201cI want all of it.\u201d That\u2019s awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps things were different before. They would put you in a \u201csmall box\u201d according to the genre, and that\u2019s how you circulated. There was the small box of the blues, the small box of pop rock, that of funk, and so on. It was necessary to be put inside a small box. I feel that now it\u2019s different. Once again: Internet deeply changed this situation. In fact, up until now, I\u2019m only distributing through the digital platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t compare myself to James Brown. If I were at that level, I would be in another dimension. I just recycle music made by that genius and others like him. I\u2019m cutting and pasting, and putting in a bit of myself. I didn\u2019t know that Leo Brouwer once said: \u201ctradition can be broken, but it takes a lot of work.\u201d Just imagine. Appropriating a tradition is always recycling. But I look for the originals, not those who have recycled the originals.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Brown - It&#039;s A Man&#039;s Man&#039;s Man&#039;s World\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H77fRz1rybs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I sit in front of the computer and I start working the themes. However, it\u2019s not until the end, until I play it live, that I see how it\u2019s going to turn out. I have to set it up with the band to play it live. To set it up with the band I have to hear what the musicians tell me. I always listen when they say \u201cthis is what it is.\u201d And I tell them: \u201cif you don\u2019t like what I put there, do it better.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my live performances no song sounds the same as on the record. The bass player and the guitarist don\u2019t play the same as what is recorded. The drummer even less so. Everybody is doing their part. In the end, it\u2019s not only my responsibility. We are collaborating. I\u2019m not afraid, I like the way we do it. It gives me confidence. I feel satisfied with the song when I know that I like it. That\u2019s when I feel I can defend it. That\u2019s when the song becomes real.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The music market is like everything in life. If you make different varieties of bread, you take it to the industry, you industrialize it, you create a transnational and start to make millions of tons of bread a day, the quality won\u2019t be the same. That is clear. Quality and quantity always get into a jam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today the market is everywhere. Everything is sold. The video clip, the background, singing a cappella, the artist\u2019s sneakers\u2026. It\u2019s madness, but it is part of this field\u2019s evolution. It\u2019s something you have to work with. In the end, it\u2019s a business.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190303\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-11-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-190303 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-11-1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;...it\u2019s not until the end, until I play it live, that I see how it\u2019s going to turn out&quot;. Photo: Denise Guerra\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-11-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-11-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-11-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-11-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;&#8230;it\u2019s not until the end, until I play it live, that I see how it\u2019s going to turn out&#8221;. Photo: Denise Guerra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In several senses, the way the music market is evolving is also the way in which human beings are evolving. We are evolving toward overcrowding, overproduction, and toward always trying to have more, more, more. However, the issue is that even in the market there are things that go with you, that you like, that are really great. Now people have more access to listen, to choose a greater variety of the music they like. You have to know where to find it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like what Brown or Prince did more than what Michael Jackson did, I\u2019m a great fan of Brown. And I adore Michael, but James, or Prince have got something. It\u2019s what they did live what resonates with me. It\u2019s a different attitude. A sort of possession. Beyond the groove, Brown didn\u2019t mind spending 20 minutes on a song, shouting, moving, completely possessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brown made a name for himself, he made his money, but he didn\u2019t get into the market in the way pop did. Michael is pop. And this is something that\u2019s massive, a music with its set parameters, which you have to respect, because it demands that many people understand it and can follow it. That\u2019s why I always liked James more. As a musician I feel more identified with that style, with that freedom, with that freedom when performing live, with the freedom when it comes to writing. I spend a really long time writing a song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/1UzZUfFUnxY<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These days reaching an audience doesn\u2019t even depend on your music. It depends on having contacts and how much you can influence people, on the marketing company you rely on, on the level of people around you. Everything involves the management of information. You can give people croquettes, and people don\u2019t like croquettes, but you put croquettes on a sign every day and people end up eating croquettes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, I do want to reach millions of people. I want to reach as many as I can. That\u2019s normal. But I want to do it by doing what I like. I want to live as I live, and give it to them my way. I\u2019m doing what I like. There\u2019s not necessarily a problem \u00a0between the two things. In the market there\u2019s space for many things. I won\u2019t let what Fito P\u00e1ez<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> told me go to my head.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.. I tell myself, \u201cit\u2019s normal, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">veo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [buddy],\u201d but it\u2019s great that he said that.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"@FitoPaezOficial &amp; Cimafunk - Yo vengo a ofrecer mi coraz\u00f3n [Live @ Gibara]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1wMpLjfPSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>Cuba<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About Cuba I\u2019m proud of the people, of everybody, bro. I\u2019m in love, with all my heart, with Cuba. In France, and everywhere, everything is great, but there comes a time in which I need to return, to be at home, with all my craziness. I\u2019m a fan of that, because it feeds me. It feeds me a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same people are also what makes me sad about Cuba. All of a sudden things start happening among Cubans, and things that didn\u2019t used to happen do, in the way we treat each other, for example, not helping each other. When you go to Pinar del R\u00edo, to a town in the countryside, you knock on a door and it opens and they offer you lunch, they give you food and they ask you what you need. That is the feeling you find. When I came to Havana it was shocking. Everything was colder. When you go to other countries, you realize that it\u2019s even more extreme. I don\u2019t like it when I see people start to change. That is like seeking your loneliness inside yourself. You can have 20 million dollars and if you can\u2019t share them it\u2019s no good. It\u2019s all in the people, bro.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190306\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-2-740x1024-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-190306\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-2-740x1024-1-740x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cimafunk. Photo: Denise Guerra\" width=\"740\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-2-740x1024-1.jpg 740w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-2-740x1024-1-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-190306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cimafunk. Photo: Denise Guerra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I respect everything that has to do with religion. Some time ago I was into Christianity. But for me the concept of religion is divisive. It creates drama, it\u2019s like making a movie. On occasions, it becomes a business. Many people are in it to see who offers the most. As a business it is lethal. I prefer to stay close to the spirit of religion, but not of the institution created on its behalf. But well, I know that the energy is there. It\u2019s there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I disagree with certain things that are done in the name of religion, like being opposed to marriage between two people of the same sex. I can\u2019t tell anybody what they can or can\u2019t do. Let everyone do what they want with their body. For me, that opposition is an invasion of others\u2019 freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Afro-Cuban? Cuba\u2019s music<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you hear the song \u201cMe voy,\u201d what we do, how we sound, especially in the live shows, you can get an idea of why I call what I do Afro-Cuban funk.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cimafunk - Me Voy (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o1YBngPfU-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the process of slavery, African cultures were brought to Cuba and they experienced many transformations. They were mixed among themselves and with many other things. But now I\u2019m using resources that were not transformed here, like a type of clave used today in Africa, for example, by Fela Kuti. I\u2019m talking about native resources. I use them like they use them over there. Sometimes I mix them more, or less, but I\u2019m working on resources used in present-day Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I started making the record <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terapia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in France. There, and in Europe in general, people get a kick out of the Afro beat. In that context, \u201cMe voy\u201d started emerging. The idea of the song is that it be a more Afro beat. But the Cubanness came out in the mixing. And I told myself: \u201cWell, this is what it is.\u201d I don\u2019t understand anything about being pure. Everything is a mixture. You shouldn\u2019t be afraid of mixtures. Well, everyone is afraid of what they\u2019re afraid of, but that\u2019s not my case. I\u2019m studying what has changed in Cuba, what hasn\u2019t changed, or what has changed less. There are many similarities, but when you listen carefully, you can see the differences that are preserved in the mixes.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190307\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-10-1024x342-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-190307 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-10-1024x342-1-1024x342.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;But now I\u2019m using resources that were not transformed here, like a type of clave used today in Africa&quot;. 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Perhaps there are exceptions, like some classical music, but I\u2019m not even very sure of that. Everything came from somewhere and started to spread. Specially in Cuba, where we have an incredible transculturation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have an extraordinary amount of genres, of music styles, an incredible amount of ways of playing and singing. Cuban music is very complex, because it contains a great deal of information. You see that when you show Cuban music to other musicians in the world and they always tell you something like: \u201cthis is very complicated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many people stay on the surface, playing the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">son<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">clave<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but, bro, from here to there, the Cuban <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">son<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is madness. You start looking around and what came from Africa and remained in our conscience is negritude, the underground, but it has an enormous amount of rhythms. Arsenio Rodr\u00edguez is an example. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What he did was madness. What El Guayabero did was madness. And Benny [Mor\u00e9], please.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then you jump to Freddy and you see that it\u2019s something else, and you say to yourself \u201cbut what the hell is she?\u201d She\u2019s like a black version of Edith Piaf.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beny More - Como Fue\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ojytcx7cabQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuban music enforced itself on America and Europe. I\u2019m making Cuban music. And I\u2019m going to give it to you live. Alive, damn it.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_190309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190309\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-8-1024x772-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-190309 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cimafunk-denise-guerra-8-1024x772-1-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;I don\u2019t understand anything about being pure. Everything is a mixture&quot;. 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Photo: Denise Guerra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Foot Notes<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cima, from cimarr\u00f3n (a black slave who runs away in search of freedom) and funk (musical genre born in the 1960s when musicians, mainly Afro-Americans, fused soul, jazz, and Latin rhythms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Freddy, or La Gorda Freddy, was the artistic pseudonym of Cuban singer Fredesvinda Garc\u00eda Vald\u00e9s (Camag\u00fcey, Cuba, 1935-San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 31, 1961). Some called her \u201cthe Cuban Ella Fitzgerald.\u201d Guillermo Cabrera Infante immortalized her as one of the characters in the novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tres tristes tigres<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Despite her short artistic career, with an impressive voice and presence, she left an imprint on the interpretation of bolero and son in Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Song performed by Cuban musician Isaac Delgado, composed by Alain P\u00e9rez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The song \u201cPaciente,\u201d by Cimafunk, is included in his first \u201csolo\u201d album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terapia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 2017. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> At the closing ceremony of the Gibara Non-Profit Film Festival (Cuba, 2018), the great Argentinean musician Fito Paez invited Cimafunk to sing with him the iconic \u201cYo vengo a ofrecer mi coraz\u00f3n,\u201d and he said: \u201cI want to invite up this black American God, perhaps one of the future\u2019s brightest lights in the continent, his art impacts me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This interview is part of <strong>OnCuba Travel Magazine<\/strong> 5oth Edition<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cover-oncuba-magazine-50.2-360x504-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-190313\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cover-oncuba-magazine-50.2-360x504-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cover-oncuba-magazine-50.2-360x504-1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cover-oncuba-magazine-50.2-360x504-1-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cima My old friends call me El Manta. They\u2019re friends from when I started with trova, and my buddies from high school, when I did a bit of reggaeton. I used to talk a lot. I used to distract the teachers so we wouldn\u2019t have to do what we were supposed to. 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