The Cuban singer-songwriter Francisco "Pancho" Céspedes will head to Spain to finish the album he was working on as a duet with Pablo Milanés, died last November.
"In a few days I'm traveling to Spain and with all the excitement I'm finishing this album that my brother and I dreamed of together. I'm excited, it's as if he were here telling me 'asere, let's push with the album'. I miss you like hell, mulatto," Pancho wrote.
The singer-songwriter told the newspaper The reason that Pablo left his entire part recorded and that now in Spain he is going to record his part "and make up the instrumental of piano, bass, drums, strings, which includes cello and percussions."
In the phonogram, which will be released in the middle of this year, Pablo sings Pancho's hits and vice versa.
Regarding Pablo, he assured that his death "had a deep impact" because they were "close confidants."
"When I heard 'Para vivir' I realized how a song should be written. Pablo Milanés is the greatest composer and vocalist in Cuba in the last 60 years," he stated.
After hearing the news of Pablo's death, Pancho dedicated several posts to him on his social networks and spent days sharing photos of both of them together.
"I wasn't the one who loved him the most, his wife and his children are there, but to love him more than me you would have to have loved him very much... very much," he wrote on that occasion.
The last time Pancho Céspedes performed in Cuba was in 2018, at a Pablo Milanés concert at the Karl Marx Theater.
Last July, the "Vida loca" singer He met with Pablo, his wife Nancy Pérez and Chucho Valdés in Spain. Pablo and Pancho were two of the guests at the pianist's concert at the Starlite Catalana Oeste in Marbella.
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