The Cuban singer-songwriter Pedro Luis Ferrer He celebrated that his music continues to be heard in Cuba, after the broadcast this Saturday on national television of a program from several years ago in which he participated as a guest.
Ferrer, considered one of the most important musicians on the island in recent decades, recalled in a Facebook post his participation in 2017 in the popular television space 23 and Min which he said he felt “at home”, “after many years without acting on national television”.
The author of topics such as “100 percent Cuban” and “Artificial Insemination”, who lives in Miami and is known for his critical position towards the island’s government, recalled that program “dedicated to the international day of the Spanish language”, of which He said it was “very well conceived, without any kind of censorship.”
As a result of learning from friends and family about the retransmission of the program in its prime time, he thanked the presenter Edith Massola for “the enormous insistence and affection” to convince him to act on television, because, as he pointed out, by then in his jurisdiction “The desire to present myself on the small screen did not beat.”
He also recalled that then I sang the songs “Todos por lo mismo” and “En la luna” with his band, which were heard again this Saturday on Cuban screens.
“Without a doubt, I am glad to know that my work continues to be played in Cuba —which is its natural environment— and it even encourages me to conceive of the possibility of a concert on the island, like a grain of sand in pursuit of dialogue and understanding”, pointed out the musician, who in 2022 celebrated his 70 years of life.
Ferrer, who wrote his publication from Spain, where he has been performing in recent weeks —and also presenting his collection of poems poems without bookconfirmed how much he would like “to see the climate of expressive freedom that our country needs for its happiness and development expand throughout the island, and that jail cease to be an option against those who express their legitimate discontent.”
The musician, a native of Yaguajay, took the opportunity to reiterate that he conceives of “a pluralistic Nation State that welcomes and defends all the ideological and political diversity of society”, and reaffirmed that by expressing his “independent thought” and his “disconformities”, his purpose “It is not to fight against our Nation State, but to strengthen it with the spiritual diversity that we are.”
“I am very happy to be able to sing to our diverse people,” concluded the author of “Grandfather Paco” and “How I like to speak Spanish.”
The broadcast of the program 23 and M with Pedro Luis Ferrer as a guest has motivated numerous reactions inside and outside Cuba, and, especially, on social networks.
Not a few people thought that it was a live space and were surprised by it, while many others appreciated their presence on Cuban TV, even knowing that it was a recording from six years ago.
