{"id":199386,"date":"2019-05-25T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=199386"},"modified":"2019-05-25T17:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T21:32:35","slug":"issac-delgado-my-music-needs-cuban-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/music-culture\/issac-delgado-my-music-needs-cuban-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Issac Delgado: &#8220;My music needs Cuban reality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a song that forever united Isaac Delgado with Celia Cruz. The legendary salsa singer had recorded &#8220;La vida es un carnaval&#8221; but she didn\u2019t give it prominence in her battle repertoire. However, everything changed suddenly when they surprised her with the news that Issac, from Havana, was turning it into a success that strongly jumped to the first places in the world\u2019s hit parades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I was on a tour of Europe with Celia and my orchestra. She had recorded the song &#8216;La vida es un carnival,&#8217; by Argentine V\u00edctor Daniel, but she did not want to sing it live because it was very long. When I returned to Havana, the musicians in my orchestra encouraged me to perform &#8216;El carnavalito,&#8217; as they called the song, during a concert at La Casa de la M\u00fasica.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I was surprised with its success. So much so, that I played it again at the end of the concert. Then we rapidly went to record it at the Sonocaribe studio of the ICRT and it became a total success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;When Ralph Mercado saw the popularity of the song, he recorded it for Latin America and Celia started singing it,&#8221; says Isaac, who is preparing to release his new album, Lluvia y fuego, this Saturday at El Sauce Cultural Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199389\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/isaac-delgado_ot_5-1024x683-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199389\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/isaac-delgado_ot_5-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/isaac-delgado_ot_5-1024x683-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/isaac-delgado_ot_5-1024x683-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/isaac-delgado_ot_5-1024x683-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/isaac-delgado_ot_5-1024x683-1-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issac Delgado. Photo: Otmaro Rodr\u00edguez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Working with Celia was a great honor for me. I was on tour in Spain with my orchestra when Ralph Mercado called me so we would accompany her. The idea was that we set up her repertoire. It was a bit strange for her and for many people that musicians who lived in Cuba were accompanying her. During the tour she told me very nice things about Cuba, she talked about my career and about her work.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celia Cruz   La Vida Es Un Carnaval\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JiL3jdE5M4k?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;\">Issac Delgado traveled to Spain in 1997 invited by Ralph Mercado, one of the promoters of the greatest caliber in the international popular music circuit, and who was looking to give an international promotion boost to the Cuban musician.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The salsa musician recorded his album La primera noche before becoming a revelation for &#8220;The Queen.&#8221; Before he had conquered the dance floors in Cuba after he had left NG la Banda with several hits such as &#8220;El profesor de d\u00e9cimo&#8221; and &#8220;Qu\u00e9 pasa loco.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;People think that I picked a fight with Jos\u00e9 Luis Cort\u00e9s, but it&#8217;s not true. For me he is a school. I didn\u2019t leave his band with the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating my own group, but several musicians insisted that I do it. When I formed my orchestra I never wanted to compete with NG. I wanted to make a slower music,&#8221; explains the musician, born in Havana in 1962.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you remember your orchestra\u2019s impact on the timba of the 1990s?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I made my first album in 1991 after having formed my orchestra a year earlier. The idea was to do a work with lyrics and music. In the late 1980s NG La Banda was a branch of Irakere and we made very elaborate music. We started compiling a bit the Cuban syncopation, which has always been music\u2019s driving force, with the bass and percussion that was rhythmically more difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Isac Delgado - La Vida Es Un  Carnaval - Fama y Aplausos - Mi Salsa\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/434hBjvvJEQ?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;\">The orchestras started adding contemporary elements to the music and they all achieved a very peculiar tone that identified them. Juan Formell was the first to support us and gave us the strength to continue along that line, with which we achieved a very different style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I tried to do something of my own with my orchestra, in which I mixed my origins in the street with music. And in everything I did, that was the spirit I wanted people to breathe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are timba orchestras that during the period suffered misunderstandings from the cultural institutions. Did you live that kind of conflict with any piece of your repertoire?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song &#8220;El a\u00f1o que viene&#8221; was censored on the radio. However, it was the soundtrack of a popular soap opera by H\u00e9ctor Quintero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I asked why, they only told me: &#8220;On television it has graphics but on the radio it doesn\u2019t.&#8221; Something absurd that responded to a decision that I never knew who made it. Anyway, in Cuba the millennium change was celebrated with &#8220;El a\u00f1o que viene&#8221; (Next year).<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Issac Delgado - El a\u00f1o que viene\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JC7ggKEm1ug?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 one of the most popular moments in your career, you decided to emigrate. What was the most difficult?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was not easy because I faced a totally different life. I lived in Tampa, Miami, Puerto Rico and New York, where I was lucky enough to record with musicians that I admired and grew up listening to, among them Sergio Leone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today I\u2019m paying for that risk I took because there is a generation that doesn\u2019t know me. My music wasn\u2019t played in Cuba for a long time, even when I returned. I spent two years and four months without being able to present my work here, until someone gave it the green light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young people come to ask me for a picture for their mother or grandmother, but luckily some of them also come to take a picture with me because they say they like what I do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to return in 2013?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t believe in the word repatriation. The homeland is mine here, in China, the United States or wherever it is. I did not repatriate because I have never stopped being Cuban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have met people who don\u2019t understand why I came back, but for me it\u2019s clear: to make my music I need to sit on the corner with friends, family. I need to live the Cuban reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although when you leave Cuba you become more Cuban. There are people who start to listen to Benny Mor\u00e9, Miguelito Cun\u00ed or Celeste Mendoza when they go to live in another country.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199390\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-7-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199390\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-7-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-7-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-7-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-7-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-7-1-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-7-1-750x536.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issac Delgado plays his classics during a concert at El Sauce. Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Was it difficult to reinsert yourself in the Cuban scene?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I spent two years and four months without being able to present my music. I was willing to be patient because I wanted to be part of culture, even if I didn\u2019t appear in the media. But I have been able to be a prophet in my land and I already enjoy the love of my people, and that is fundamental.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s most important is that I have the certainty that I never hurt anyone and I have all kinds of friends. I can be next to someone and think differently. That doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s no friendship. I have many friends who don\u2019t think the same as I do, and that doesn\u2019t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you find the country on your return?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You live much faster and things have changed, but Cubans haven\u2019t lost their joy. But the national sport did change, much to my chagrin, because I\u2019m a soccer fan but I was always proud that baseball was the national sport. Now we have to make an effort so that both are on the same level of the people\u2019s interest, especially of the younger ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, I&#8217;m glad I didn\u2019t go through the Facebook stage during my youth because we did beautiful atrocities, but there are no photos nor was it recorded (laughs). I was able to call my girlfriends on the public telephone, and all those memories are sacred to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban music in Cuba has been criticized, even by popular dance music orchestras. What do you think of this movement?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It isn\u2019t healthy to discriminate against genres. You learn from everything. Urban musicians are from the neighborhood and what they do is a reflection of what they are experiencing. They talk about what they feel. You have to give them alternatives so they can decide what they want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the public should be given access to popular music at a cheaper price and strategies must be found to pay musicians as befits their quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the urban genre there are good and bad groups as in our music. Their staging is better than ours. The lights, the catwalks. I think the orchestras have fallen behind in that sense and we must continue learning. What shouldn\u2019t be encouraged are the lyrics that attack women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s about understanding when we are facing proposals with an acceptable musical level. I always listen to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199392\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199392\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-2-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-2-1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-2-1-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-2-1-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-2-1-750x543.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issac Delgado during a concert in El Sauce. Photo: Kaloian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>You just recorded the album <em>Lluvia y fuego<\/em>, what stage of your career does this album collect?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have tried to make an album respecting my roots and my references, which are Benny Mor\u00e9 and Cheo Feliciano. Many of the songs were written by Jes\u00fas D\u00edaz and I have collaborations with musicians like Gilberto Santa Rosa, Samuel Formell, Alexander Abreu, Pedrito Mart\u00ednez, Luis Quintero&#8230;. I think this album will be very important in my career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was also very happy that Leonardo Padura wrote the words for the album. I\u2019ve been an admirer of his work for decades. When I began to listen to salsa in the 1970s, someone lent me El libro de la salsa, by Venezuelan Cesar Miguel Rond\u00f3n, with a prologue by Padura. That&#8217;s when I got to know him and then I started reading his books. He is an incredible music critic. Three years ago I asked him to make a review of my previous record, but he let me down. But now I insisted and he gave me a beautiful gift with his words. The record could deserve them, but I don\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>You are one of the organizers of the Varadero Josone Festival together with the EGREM label. What big attractions do you have in mind for the second edition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea is to bring an all-star from Africa. It will be an international luxury attraction. In any case, with the Cuban musicians that will be there, we will have a great festival. What is needed is to give people access in the economic sense. I also wanted to do it in Varadero for national tourism and so that everyone, as many as possible, can see great artists live.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199393\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199393\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-6-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-6-1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-6-1-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/issac-delgado-kaloia-6-1-750x475.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issac Delgado during a concert in El Sauce. Photo. Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The possibility of Marc Anthony coming to the festival has been mentioned&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Marc Anthony comes to Cuba he\u2019ll do it with Gente de Zona. We all know about their close relationship. It is very difficult to schedule a concert by an artist as big as him. But I know him and I&#8217;m sure he will finally come to Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a song that forever united Isaac Delgado with Celia Cruz. The legendary salsa singer had recorded &#8220;La vida es un carnaval&#8221; but she didn\u2019t give it prominence in her battle repertoire. 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