SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The Cuban regime has ordered the composition of a song to be broadcast on official television channels in the context of the Paris Olympic Games.
The melody was created by Christopher Simpson who, like his colleague Annie Garceslikes to raise slogans to be in tune with the Cuban regime.
“Time to win” is, as the Castro media presents it Cubadebatea “broad and diverse” topic that “will accompany the delegations that will represent Cuba at the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
Simpson was inspired by his own motivation “to uplift the country” and “the commitment to overcome obstacles in pursuit of glory,” said the official newspaper.
The song is intended to be the “soundtrack” of Cuban sporting events in Paris.
“It is the day to advance/ I must reach the top/ The whole world at my feet/ announcing the time to win,” says the chorus of the song.
And he continues: “The moment will come/ and history will grow/ a light can be seen/ announcing the time to win.”
The second stanza of the chorus, in an intertextual gesture, takes advantage of the title of the song in one verse. “My story will grow”, by the group Moncada, a composition made for the 36th anniversary of the CDR in 1996. This was acknowledged to the press by Simpson himself, who claims to have reviewed songs created for previous events.
The young man is the leader of the band Elevación, with which he recorded the song. He stated that it has been a great commitment to contribute with the song (“Today the sky gave its colors/to those who light it with fire/With challenges always come fears/but it will pass”).
His aspirations are not small: he wants “Tiempo de Vencer” to become an anthem.
Although he does not know if it will happen, as he acknowledged Cubadebate“He will be happy if every member of the delegation takes him as an inspiration.”
“The making of the song, the recording of the video, everything was like a great Olympics for me… in which I had to face obstacles and challenges to get to a result like this. If you like it, it is precisely because of all that… and I hope it serves to show how you have to be in life: persevering, self-sacrificing and having an unshakeable position in the face of adverse situations to get where you want to go,” he said.
Simpson thus joins that group of young people who have not hesitated to respond to the call of the regime. Like him, Annie Garcés took part in several musical productions promoted by the government, and achieved notoriety as part of the artistic cast of Homeland or Death for Lifea song composed by Torres in response to Homeland and Life. One of the most memorable lines of the song is his: “the Revolution has 62 thousand millennia left.”
In addition to her political commitment to the Cuban regime, official critics have stated that Annie Garcés has “great solidity in her approach” and that, “although she opens up to various horizons, she shows a very coherent and highly poetic interpretive personality.”
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