MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban singer Alfredito Rodríguez calls on his followers to accompany him in the celebration of his birthday next Saturday, November 23 at the club Desafinado’sin the Coral Gables area, Miami.
“It will be a pleasure to receive you, to sing my songs to you, the songs that, as I say, I have given birth to, and that you have done me the favor of carrying so many on your lips.” This is how Rodríguez invited him to his show, in statements offered to CubaNet.
Between 1969 and 1990, Alfredito Rodríguez was one of the most acclaimed Cuban pop singers. In 2022 he celebrated his 55 years of artistic career in Miami.
About his songs, the journalist Luis Cino wrote in CubaNet that “they really liked and made life more bearable mainly for the pioneers of socialism, their retired grandmothers, the depressed housewives and the CDR members exhausted by the construction of socialism.”
In the same text, the journalist also recalled that the Cuban authorities “made life impossible” for the musician, who in 2009 complained about the censorship of his songs on the radio and about having been accused “of distorting the public’s taste for being “foreigning and singing ‘easy songs’.”
In November of last year, Rodríguez, who has lived in Miami since 2010, assured that “some” were determined to keep him away from his city, Havana. “My Havana: I have never left, although I know that many feel my distance, and also that some insisted on keeping me away from you, but I am not there,” he wrote on Facebook.
In his words, the musician evoked the essence of the city and his personal connection despite the distances and circumstances. Furthermore, he reflected on the complexity of the terms “leave” and “stay,” suggesting that, regardless of physical presence, those who love Cuba They always carry it with them.
