Brass, pans, synthesizers and timpani accompany the choir that performs a fragment of the last and censored song from El Niño y La Verdad, "Change", in which the Cuban singer and composer Emilio Frias He confesses that his life “needs a change” and vindicates his desire to “breathe freedom and be who I am.”.
El Niño and La Verdad are censored during a concert in Havana
The theme, which will be released next Friday on the artist's social networks, he describes the mood of a Cuban trapped in a reality that prevents him from progressing as a person and freely speaking his truth, recognizing that this coercion limits the ability of individuals to contribute their best to society.
“I want to breathe freedom and be who I am / to show that I can give more than what I give / and my heart screams at me that there is a better tomorrow than today / Change, my life needs a change now / without fear of success I go for' above the mess walking around there, Frías sang a cappella in a direct one that he shared in mid-March on social networks.
As part of the promotion of the song, the musician shared a version of “Cambio” with orchestral arrangements last Tuesday. In an Instagram post, Frías announced the premiere of the final arrangement of the song for September 16.
That day “one of the most sincere songs I have been able to write will be released,” said the musician in his post. After 72 hours of publication, the artist was censored at the Galiano House of Music, in Havana, when - according to witnesses - the directors of this state company violently prevented him from performing his song.
“I know that many will identify with this song that came from one of the most difficult moments in my life… ‘Change,’” said the musician in his Instagram post, in which he announced the premiere on his YouTube channel.
“Today I asked my pillow what is happening / I feel that something is not working in my life / to move forward I have to make some changes / I have to learn from my mistakes to reap, continue sowing / on the path to the happiness that I'm looking", says the lyrics of “Cambio.”
The message of Frías's song seems to have set off the alarms in the Palace of the Revolution, inhabited by beings that play the tumbadora and dance casino, but they live disconnected from reality and work (and earn good sums of money) to keep Cubans hypnotized with the enchantment or curse of the so-called “revolution.”
This Saturday, during a concert at the Galiano House of Music “they started to lower the microphone… they turned on the lights as if to make him finish and he got angry, and then he sang a couple of songs that have a bit of criticism, for those who no longer let him even go on television," he indicated in statements to CyberCuba a witness to events that have ignited the networks, provoking statements from artists, officials, activists and supporters of the regime.
“A series of events occurred that violated the discipline of our center and the contract with the artist, by not starting or ending at the agreed times, after 3 a.m., the time at which the institution is established to close,” he alleged. Vladimir Luis Vasallo, director of the Galiano House of Music, in his attempt to deny that Frías was a victim of censorship by the institution he directs.
“A strong call for order was made to the artist, which he ignored. “He tried to manipulate the public and used expressions that were offensive to any revolutionary,” Vasallo argued in a publication on his personal profile in which he described the scandal caused by the censorship exercised as “media manipulation,” including the use of force on a technician. sound.
According to Vasallo, “we had to take the measure of removing the group's sound engineer from our facility, since our house is a state entity, which responds to the cultural policy of our country”.
“I do not agree with what happened at the Galiano House of Music with Emilio Frías (El Niño) and his group. Unless the work is an affront to human dignity or an incitement to violence, all ideas must and have to be presented. “That's what art is for too,” he said. Israel Rojas, leader of the Buena Fe group and prominent defender of the Cuban regime, about the event.
“The story of the Cuban people is very sad and moving."said the legendary musician Willy Chirino in a comment of support for Frías and his orchestra. “The truth will win over lies. "Life will conquer death and we will all shout 'Homeland and Life', never again 'Homeland or Death'," he stated. Yotuel Romero.
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