The Casa de América in Madrid hosts this Wednesday the burning chapel of the legendary Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanes, who died in the early hours of Tuesday in the Spanish capital. Relatives, friends and admirers of the Cuban’s work began to arrive early.
Fito Páez, Massiel and Caco Senante, among others, have gone to the funeral chapel, where the family thanked them for the support received and has advanced their intention to bury him in Spain, according to a report from efe.
“We have lost one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and also of the 21st. The most important thing is that it has left an impressive legacy of quality and beauty in which we should all go to breathe a little in these dark times”, declared the singer Fito Páez on behalf of the family, along with Milanés’s brother-in-law, actor Federico Perez Rey.
Asked by the journalists from the Spanish agency, Pérez Rey has assured that the Cuban singer-songwriter “will be buried here, in strict privacy, and what happens later we will see,” he said, without wanting to give information about the town where he will be out the burial or whether Milanés preferred to rest in Spain or Cuba. “His desire for him was his desire”, he has settled in the middle of a day marked by pain.
Páez, who was visibly affected by the news, has considered the late singer not only his friend but also his brother, while stressing that “he was a machine for making perfect songs” that did not have “any disposable ”. Likewise, the artist has explained that he had started with Milanés the preparation of a tango record in which the Argentine pianist Carlos Franzetti would take part.
Similarly, Milanés’ record producer, Dagoberto González, wanted to reveal that the artist was preparing an album full of collaborations with artists like Alejandro Sanz. It would mean, according to this source, the third installment of the trilogy made up of the albums Dear pablo (1985) and dear paul (2002).
Awaiting an official tribute from the government of his native Cuba, Páez, according to efehas recalled that citizens pay tribute to him in the building that houses the PM Studios in Havana, where “an infinity of people are leaving flowers, gifts and singing their songs.”
