“National Strike” is the title of the new song thatEliécer Márquez Duany, known as El Funky, premiered last Wednesday, March 20, coincidentally in the context of the recent protests that took place in Cuba.
"We were working on it for a while and I think it was an exact moment, what the situation is like in our country and that they feel it as support, as encouragement, that they use it as an anthem, which is theirs," he said. the artist toMartí News.
The presentation of the musical theme was done with thesupport of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC), who are carrying out a series of activities in support of the Cuban struggle, reportsWHICH.
For this reason, El Funky added thatHis song is for the people and his intention is to demonstrate support for the cause for which many Cubans were motivated to take to the streets. to demonstrate discontent with the regime.
He added that he was thinking of doing achallenge with this song, in which he invites artists to join, without distinction, to “express their feelings, what is happening right now in the country” and called them the future of an island that is repressed.
There were no shortage of words for the political prisoners, especiallyhis fighting brothers Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maikel Osorbo, imprisoned by the Havana regime.
El Funky, one of the interpreters of the song"Homeland and Life", converted into a combat anthem during the historic demonstrations ofJuly 2021, andwhose phrase was heard again this March 17 in the Cuban towns that rose up against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel, said that “the artist has to let the people know their reality and support them in every way” using art.
The massive protests that began on Sunday, March 17 in Santiago de Cuba and spread to other locations in the country, motivated thelivelihood of several Cuban artists exiled in other parts of the world, who asked the Cuban people to resist in the fight for the right to be free.
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