Yotuel Romero launched a campaign a few months ago to ensure that Osorbo and Funky were also present at the gala.
Miami (EFE) .- Several of the artists of Homeland and life, the song of popular protests in Cuba, which is nominated in two Latin Grammy categories, will perform an unreleased acoustic version during the awards gala on November 18.
Of the performers of the candidate for best song and best urban song, which has had more than 9 million views on YouTube since last February, only rapper Maykel Osorbo, who has been imprisoned in a Cuban jail since last May, will not be able to attend the gala that will take place in Las Vegas.
According to a statement published this Monday by the Latin Recording Academy, which is based in Miami and annually awards these awards to Latin music, Descemer Bueno, the Gente de Zona duo, made up of Alexander Degado and Randy Malcom, and Yotuel Romero they will go on stage to do an “acoustic, feeling and never seen before” version of the famous song.
The Academy does not mention in the statement the Cuban rapper Eliécer Márquez Duany, “El Funky”, another of the artists of “Patria y vida”, who arrived in Miami on October 30 in order to attend the gala and was with him. Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, last week in Washington.
Almagro was photographed holding in his hands a Cuban flag with the legend “Patria y vida” next to El Funky in the inauguration of an artistic exhibition at the headquarters of the OAS.
Yotuel Romero, author of the song, launched a campaign a few months ago to ensure that “el Osorbo” and “el Funky” were also present at the gala in which the song will compete for two awards.
The artists and the Cuban exile consider that the real nominee is the Cuban people, not the song, which calls for changes in Cuba and was the “anthem” of the protests that broke out in Cuba on July 11.
With his chorus “it’s over,” directed at the Cuban regime, Homeland and life it may resonate earlier than in Las Vegas in the civic march called for November 15 in Cuba and banned by the Government.
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