The song “July 11”, by reggaeton artist Chacal, came to life on the face of the influencer Estefany Cruz Ledesma, who represented the lyrics of the song in an emotional sequence of makeup that expresses the suffering of Cubans and denounces the misery caused by the regime on the island.
The Cuban musician published the song in 2021, on the YouTube platform, inspired by the massive protests that occurred that year in the nation against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel, and which were violently repressed by the Cuban state.
Concepts such as “Homeland and Life”, the pain of the Cuban people due to the lack of freedom, and the misery caused by the crisis that the nation is experiencing, are transformed into an image on the girl's face, in avideo posted on TikTok last Tuesday.
For a few seconds, Cruz chose the color red to show tears in his eyes, representing the sadness that Cubans suffer, and he also wrote the words "SOS", "pain", "hunger" and "misery", to express the feeling of those born on the island.
In one of the most emotional moments of the video, which lasts just under a minute, he covers his eyes with a black blindfold, and when the cloth is removed, a reference to Díaz-Canel is read, and in the background the voice of the Jackal singing: “Our land has feelings, so that a tyrant comes to destroy it with his thoughts.”
Later, the phrase “We are all Cuba” was placed, accompanied by a heart broken in half from which black tears flow, a message of sadness that expresses the indignation of those born on the island at the misery caused by the regime.
The face of the young girl serves as a canvas for the message of the Jackal song, composed by the demonstrations of July 11, 2021, and is a theme that becomes valid this year whenthe people returned to the streets to protest.
From art, other creators have expressed their feelings.
The Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela shared with his followers a new musical song that he is producing and it isa song to love and freedom.
Varela left a fragment of the song's lyrics on his Instagram profile, where he has received dozens of comments celebrating this moving musical theme.
A few days after the massive protests that began on March 17 in Cuba, Cuban rapper Bian Oscar Rodríguez Gala, better known as El B,presented a song in support of the protesters and the freedom of the island.
Also Néstor Pulido Ríos, neurosurgeon from Cienfuegos,composed “Speak softly, asere”, a song in which he describes the reality that is experienced every day in Cuba, where people are afraid to express their discontent with the government for fear of the consequences.
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