Cuba is famous for, or was until recently that started riding a shy technological evolution, a paradise. from Jennifer Lopez to Jimmy Page have walked our streets have passed without the slightest fuss. Here there is no paparazzi culture or media to sell you a candid photo, and I guess that makes them see Cuba as one of the last oasis for sufferers of fame. For things like that – I do not think it was our sun, especially because we are in January, probably Fernando Olvera , AKA Fher , Mana -known vocalist landed in Varadero.<\/p>\n
The visit of Fher, known thanks to an interview with a local media caused OnCuba invite me to write about what Mana has meant to generations of Cubans. My first reaction was no, I do not like the Mexican band and I feel it would be unfair to blame them for having more than a few Latin American teenager begin on the ways of the rock .<\/p>\n
But then I remembered what the musician said in the interview about his estrangement because how well people know the Mana work in Cuba and that it touched his heart. And I began to think of mornings that without more resources in the holster of the guitar, my friends and I have laid hands on Mana and cried like drunkards our grieving for her loneliness in the San Blas dock, or we pitied the poor little Ana, or cried like a river. Personal tastes aside , for years I see copies in many of its lyrics , I think of the good and best moments this group has provided in the past 20 years, with songs rooted in the memory of all the young (and not so young ) since the 90s of last century that has played music in Cuba .<\/p>\n
If Mana deserves some credit is for having sneaked in the taste of the most diverse generations and professions; Mana is liked by the P-5 bus driver 40 and the kid studying Computer Science at the Polytechnic, Mana is liked by the baker on Calzada and C streets and by the Doctor in Philology . Mana is essentially the reincarnation of these boleros played on music boxes that people successfully managed to dance in clubs and halls. And that, at least, we should acknowledge.<\/p>\n
Now that Fher announces, as any famous musician who doesn\u2019t want to look bad when visiting Cuba-that any day he comes, if not with Man\u00e1, at least alone to give a concert in Cuba, imagine how great it would be to watch the Anti-Imperialist Square full of people singing along-anthems by Mana see a country connected with one of its strongest recent memories, beautiful memories among many other memories of a time of blackouts, rafts and famines impossible to kill. I probably swallow all my squeamishness and alongside thousands of Cubans sing till I lose my voice to a revolution of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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