Cuban American music manufacturer and business owner Emilio Estefan is launching a video for the tune “Libertad” in assistance of protesters on the island that required to the streets in mass recently requiring flexibility.
The tune called “Libertad” or liberty was authored, produced, and musicalized by Estefan in partnership with the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, a not-for-profit group. The video will be launched on Tuesday at twelve noon.
“This is the first time that the image is more important than the music,” Estefan, who has actually won 19 Grammy awards, informed NBC News. “It’s really hard. I was born in Cuba even though we’re 90 miles, away it feels so far away.”
Estefan, who is wed to Cuban American vocalist Gloria Estefan, stated, “Gloria and I pray for Cuba each day.”
Over one week back, Cuba saw the biggest demonstrations given that the 1959 transformation when thousands took the streets throughout the whole island, much of them shouting “Libertad,” like the tune’s title and requiring modification.
The video was shot in Cuba 2 months back. The Foundation had actually proposed Estefan compose a piece that showed the conditions in Cuba, following an unusual demonstration that happened in November 2020 with numerous young artists and activists in front of the Culture Ministry.
The November demonstration in Cuba was an outcome of authorities separating members of an artist’s cumulative referred to as the San Isidro Movement that had actually been collected for days, with 6 members on a cravings strike.
While the video remained in production, the July 11th demonstrations broke out, triggering Estefan to accelerate the work.
“I feel people need to know the truth of what happened in Cuba. For the first time, thanks to technology they are seeing the reality of what happened and the abuse,” stated Estefan.
The tune speak about silence being the “enemy of liberty,” “it’s a shame that with force they want to silence you,” and “every human being deserves freedom.”
Around the middle of the tune, voices shouting “libertad” are heard and at the end they call activists that have actually passed away. Two of them, Pedro Luis Boitel and Orlando Zapata Tamayo, passed away while on cravings strikes throughout their years-long jail times.
Estefan, who left Cuba when he was 14, stated that for him “it’s not about politics, it’s about human rights.”
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