Pablo Milanés: "Reggaeton has no quality, it is rude"

Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés faces a 2017 full of international concerts, covering Latin American countries and also Spain.

This Friday, February 3, it will be presented at the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima (Peru). Then he will visit Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico; and starting in June he will offer concerts in Spanish cities.

As the singer is in Peru, from there he has offered some statements, of various kinds, to local media.

In a recent interview with the newspaperTrade, has once again reiterated what has been a growing attitude for the musician for at least a year:don't talk about politics, and avoid all kinds of embarrassing questions.

However, in these statements, there was a topic that the singer-songwriter did not avoid: reggaeton.

“It's a shame that that music is heard. I suffer a lot because throughout my life I have tried to rescue poetry for popular work, and the media ends up imposing other things,” he said.

In a radio interview, Milanés described reggaeton as simple, superficial music, lacking poetry and spirit; and summed it all up in the term "emergency music."

The musician believes that reggaeton has been used by record companies to create an emerging success, and nothing more, and he regretted that they have made the worst choice, within all the music that is made, to bring it to audiences.

Then he declared:"Reggaeton has no quality, it is rude."

Regarding politics, although he did not want to give his opinion directly, one sentence was enough to reveal his true feelings, now more hidden than in years ago. Paul said:

“José Martí's message is still valid in Cuba. “He was a revolutionary but no one knew how to understand his idea of a revolutionary republic.”

A good listener, few words are enough. Pablo Milanés does not like reggaeton, and considers that the “revolutionary republic” that Martí desires is an unfulfilled wish on the Island.