{"id":12477,"date":"2022-11-09T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=12477"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:44:54","slug":"silvia-perez-cruz-cuba-es-parte-de-mi-mapa-emocional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/silvia-perez-cruz-cuba-es-parte-de-mi-mapa-emocional\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00edlvia P\u00e9rez Cruz: \"Cuba is part of my emotional map\"."},"content":{"rendered":"

One day, when S\u00edlvia P\u00e9rez Cruz was four years old, her father, Castor P\u00e9rez, showed her <\/span>The afternoon<\/span><\/i>with music by a certain Sindo Garay. That would be the first song that the girl from Girona performed in public in a tavern. Some time later, the mythical Cuban bolero would be an indissoluble part of the repertoire of this artist; a repertoire also integrated by Cuban music. Something that S\u00edlvia undoubtedly owes to that strong family bond that also tied her to a small Caribbean island, to which she returns as part of her Latam Tour, after her last concert here, six years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"My father's relationship with Cuba was very deep and he transmitted it to everyone around him. He was one of the greatest scholars of the habanera, imagine how full he felt here. He had an archive of songs in the Casal Catal\u00e0n in Havana where he spent hours, happily, searching, mining and ordering songs. He was very humble, a lover of small details, a great observer of the sea. I listened from a very young age to Mar\u00eda Teresa Vera, Bola de Nieve, Sindo Garay, Marta Vald\u00e9s, Jos\u00e9 Antonio M\u00e9ndez...; I listened to habaneras, trova, Cuban filin. And well, Silvio Rodr\u00edguez also connects me directly with the memory of my father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"When my father and I were meeting, he<\/span>He played the guitar, and I sang; he played second voice and cried. He taught me a thousand habaneras since I was born: <\/span>Twenty years<\/span><\/i>for example, was an indispensable song since I was 12 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n