"Patria y Vida." Homeland and life. Those are the words Cuban protesters chanted as they took to the streets on July 11, 2021, in what became one of the biggest antigovernment demonstrations against the Cuban regime in decades. The slogan came from a hip-hop song released the same year by Yotuel Romero, the Afro-Cuban leader of the rap group Orishas, singer Descemer Bueno, the reggaeton group Gente de Zona, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Maykel Osorbo, and DJ El Funky.
The song has become the sound of liberty in Cuba. It also won two Latin Grammy Awards for song of the year and best urban song, becoming a song of both victory and empowerment for the Cuban people. Romero, Gente de Zone, Descemer Bueno, and El Funky even performed the song at the 22nd annual Latin Grammys on Nov. 18, 2021.
Now, two years after the song's release, it's getting an official history. The documentary...
The song has become the sound of liberty in Cuba. It also won two Latin Grammy Awards for song of the year and best urban song, becoming a song of both victory and empowerment for the Cuban people. Romero, Gente de Zone, Descemer Bueno, and El Funky even performed the song at the 22nd annual Latin Grammys on Nov. 18, 2021.
Now, two years after the song's release, it's getting an official history. The documentary...
- 3/24/2023
- by Johanna Ferreira
- Popsugar.com
Maybe it was the excitement of post-lockdown celebrations or the simple triumph of getting through the worst of the pandemic, but the energy felt different at the 22nd annual Latin Grammys back in November of 2021. Thousands of people, dressed in shimmering gowns and slick suits, had gathered at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas for the awards ceremony. At the end of the night, when it was time for the anticipated Song of the Year category, the air turned electric as people waited to hear who might take home...
- 1/6/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Denis Solís moved to Novi Sad, Serbia, in November 2021 — quietly, wearily, without a job lined up. Of his large and tightknit extended family, only two cousins joined him. And now, every day, when he leaves his apartment to wander unfamiliar streets in search of work — as a cleaner, dishwasher, mason, anything — he looks over his shoulder.
“Before leaving my country, the police let me know they will be watching me here. They are like ghosts,” Solís, 33, told Rolling Stone. “Sometimes I see someone [looking at me] and think, ‘Oh, that’s nothing,...
“Before leaving my country, the police let me know they will be watching me here. They are like ghosts,” Solís, 33, told Rolling Stone. “Sometimes I see someone [looking at me] and think, ‘Oh, that’s nothing,...
- 3/25/2022
- by Stacey Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
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