With his song "Motherland", singer Orlando Méndez, known as the 'Cuban Cowboy', is touching the hearts of many Cuban-Americans. second generation who, like him, feel nostalgia for the land where their parents or grandparents were born.
The Cuban-American singer, who participated inThe Voice, went viral after his performance on a terrace where he performed this emotional song, in which he recounts the connection he feels towards Cuba despite having never been there. "I have a lot of love for where my family came from," Miami-born Orlando Mendez sings on "Motherland."
When presenting this song, a tribute to his grandparents, the singer said: "This song is for you Cuban Americans, written by a second generation Cuban American. It is a tribute to my parents and my grandparents".
Orlando explains that his grandparents dedicated themselves to tobacco plantations for generations until the Castro regime, when they left everything behind in Cuba and came to the United States so that their children would have a chance."Thanks to them I can represent and try to fulfill the dream of becoming a Cuban country singer."
"I looked across the ocean to see if I could see the island where I came from. That's still a part of me. Sure I've never been there, I've never touched that sand. But it's where my family came from," Orlando sings in the emotional country song
The reactions to Orlando Méndez's performance have not been long in coming. "It made me cry, there are so many of us who leave everything behind and try to build a family away from everything we know. Thank you", "I love those songs, I am also a Cuban American and proud to have had my daughter in this great country and my grandchildren also born here" or "How beautiful, thank you for representing those feelings that we Cubans carry," are some of the comments they left him on TikTok.
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