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The song, performed by Yotuel Romero, Descemer Bueno, Maykel Osorbo, El Funky and the duo Gente de Zona, is the symbol of the protests in Cuba.
When he took the podium to receive the golden gramophone for the best song of the year, Yotuel Romero, one of the composers of Homeland and life, incited the public to chant those same words that are in the title of that song. The audience at the MGM Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, could not help but get excited and shout in unison “homeland and life”, because this combination of words refers to the clamor for freedom and peace that the Cuban people demand from a series of protests that started in July of this year on the island.
The musical theme became a political issue, since even another of the composers, Maykel Osorbo, is being held for considering himself a figure of resistance for the Cuban Government.
“This award is for Cuba, for a person (especially), my love (referring to the composer Beatriz Luengo, also the creator of Homeland and life), to my mother, I dedicate it to all the mothers who fight for the dream of each child, to my free Cuba and Maykel Osorbo, so that we all say ‘homeland and life, homeland and life, homeland and life’ ”. “Freedom for the political prisoners of Cuba!” it was another of the clamors.
The theme of the song also awarded its composers in the premiere of the gala as the best urban song.
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