The Music Festival Interviewwhich will be held next September in Moscow after a 45 -year pause, the Participation of representatives from 21 countries, including Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia.
“The interview final will be held in Moscow on September 20, 2025 in the Live Arena concert hall. Competitors from 21 BRICS countries, the community of independent states, Latin America, Asia and Africa, as well as the United States,” said the organizers in a statement.
Latin America will be represented in This song festival, the alternative to Eurovision created in the extinct socialist fieldby singers Omar Acedo (Venezuela), Nidia Góngora (Colombia) and Zulema Iglesias Zalazar (Cuba).
Cuba in interview 2025
“It is the first time I travel to Russia and I am very proud to be the Cuban chosen to attend this brother country,” said Zulema Iglesias in an interview with Sputnik last June.
The artist said that will compete with one of the issues of its authorship: the bolero “little by little” or “Guaguancó with jazz”, a piece that fuses traditional Cuban genres with contemporary elements.
“We are going to select which of the two more symbolizes cubania and has the power to defend our roots well,” he added.
Zulema Iglesias is considered One of the emblematic voices of contemporary Cuban musicaccording to News interview.
He began his artistic career at age 12 and during the 90s he founded the duo the Churches brothers, who later added a third member to form the Churches trio.
In 2017, he received the state award “For Culture Services”, awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Cuba.
According to News interview, The music of Iglesias “carries a powerful emotional message that reflects not only the rich history of the island, but also its personal experience.”
Singers from Belarus, Vietnam, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Catar, China, Kenya, Kyrgyz, Madagascar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, United States, Tayikistan, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan and South Africa, in addition to Russia, represented by the official singer Shaman.
Previously the organizers had included Azerbaiyan and United Arab Emirates in the list, but later retired to both countries, although the reasons are not known.
Zulema Iglesias will represent Cuba at the Music Festival Intermission 2025 in Moscow
Interview, the Music Festival that returns to Moscow
According to Alexandr Zhuravski, deputy director of public projects of the Russian President’s office, the broad selection of countries “seeks to show through the prism of music the world’s wealth and diversity.”
He added that Interview “It is not a political, cultural, social initiative.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin, decreed at the beginning of the year to resume This festival, which was created in the sixties of the last century Under the auspices of the International Radio and Television Organization of the countries of the Socialist Block and was an alternative to the Eurovision Festival of the song.
His first edition, held in Prague in 1965, rewarded the Czech singer Karel Gott, qualified by his compatriot, novelist Milan Kundera, as “The idiot of music” for his light and commercial songs.
He was subsequently welcomed by Bulgaria, the USSR, Poland and even Finland, but was ill -fated after his controversial 1980 edition in the Polish city of Sopot.
And it is that in neighboring Gdansk the massive protests of the opposition solidarity union were unleashed that marked the beginning of the collapse of the socialist field.
Putin proposed in 2009 rescue the festival and host singers from postosviet countries and the organization of the cooperation of Shanghai, but the idea was paralyzed so far, with the idea of expanding the project to the BRICS countries.
EFE/ONCUBA
