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Cubans give help to mother who sells songs on the Malecón in Havana

The Cuban known as The Iron Man brought the young woman clothes, shoes and money, asked her if she needed anything and she said she would like a guitar.


Kendra Pineda Mesa, the Cuban mother of two children who every day He goes to the Malecón in Havana and offers people to sing for them for 100 pesos, he received a visit at his house from Lino Tomasen, known as "The Iron Man", who brought him donations of clothes, shoes and money that his followers and friends sent him.

Lino asked her if she needed anything in particular and she replied that she would like to have a guitar, because she usually composes Christian songs.

"My loves, help me get this girl a guitar. Have my phone number, 53440703, call me if anyone can help me with that," asked The Iron Man on his wall. Facebook, where he shared the video of his visit to the girl.

The state of the home and the furniture allow us to see the poverty in which the family subsists.

The man also asked his followers to cooperate with the young woman by sending her clothes for her two children, ages eight and five.

Finally, Kendra thanked all the people who have followed the video in which she appears singing the song on the Malecón love me a lot, which he performed for a mother and her daughter, and which went viral on the networks.

"Not only have they helped me materially, but because it has been an encouragement for me to continue singing and do it with much more commitment and effort from now on, and compose, and so on," he said smiling.

Kendra's story came to light this week thanks to Yordanka Cuza, a Cuban who was walking with her daughter on the Malecón when she approached them and timidly asked them if they would like to hear a song.

According to Yordanka, the young woman walked close to the wall "asking everyone if they wanted to hear her sing." He offered his service but "always received refusals."

Cuza herself and her daughter first told him no, but then they repented and asked him to sing to them.

The video moved thousands of people who shared it on the Internet, where it went viral.

The journalist Mónica Baró Sánchez responded to Yordanka Cuza's publication and according to some users who commented on her post, Kendra was a visual arts student at the Higher Institute of Art.

Websites say that he was born in Havana in 1985 and, like Facebook and Instagram profiles with this name, they show some of his works.

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