Cándido Fabré says that blackouts are positive because you learn to know "what it feels like"

Fabré stated that he is not like others who suffer thinking about when the lights will be turned off. "I don't go around with that shock. I try that when it arrives, the little bit that they give it to me, I do things there."

03/05/2024 - 9:35am (GMT-5) | 4

The Cuban musician Candide Fabré, a strong defender of the regime, stated that the blackouts have been positive because this way people learn to know "what it feels like," and said that he does not live in shock wondering when the lights will be turned off.

"The blackouts have also been positive because in a blackout you learn to know what it feels like. Anyone who has not experienced the intense moments of the blackouts does not know what it feels like," he said in an interview with Radio Cabaniguán.

The singer commented that he is not like other people who, when they have electricity, suffer thinking about when it will go away.

"I don't go around with that shock. I try that when it comes, the little bit that they give it to me, then I do things. I [think]: 'right now it's gone, it'll come,'" he said.

"If they knock down the power and I'm playing, the people stay there and I stay there too. After they turn it on, we enjoy," he stressed, alluding to the blackout suffered at an outdoor concert in Guáimaro, Camagüey, in April.

I will remember you song dedicated to blackouts, called Between blackout and lighting, in which he describes what happens in homes and neighborhoods when the electricity is turned off and when it is restored.

The song was written in March, in days when power outages in Manzanillo, where the artist resides, were up to 18 hours each day.

"I did it at a time when some commented: 'in Cuba there is no freedom of expression'. Well, there will not be in your soul and in your thoughts, but in my language, in my heart, in my feelings and in my firmness, yes There is freedom of expression," he stressed.

The singer-songwriter, who prides himself on being a Fidelista, became so fed up with the electricity crisis that he reminded the government that "it charges quite dearly" for this service that it takes away from the people.

"I would like some national leader to live with us so that he feels what we feel where, without putting the current, They remove it at any time for excessively long periods of time. There may be energy problems but we are paying a very high price," he said in March.