“He leaves an immense legacy and an indelible mark on the lives of those who admired and loved him,” said his family.
MIAMI, United States. – The well-known Cuban musician Alfredito Rodríguez (1951-2026) died this Thursday in Miami at the age of 74, his family reported in a brief statement on social networks.
“He leaves an immense legacy and an indelible mark on the lives of those who admired and loved him. His memory will always live in our hearts,” reads the obituary. “We sincerely appreciate the expressions of affection,” he concludes.
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 by being foreign-oriented 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 here,” he wrote on Facebook.
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