If the neighborhood never asked permission to crown their idols, the posthumous tribute would be no different. The bodies are glued together in a vigil at the foot of a basketball hoop, in a poor corner of Key West, to the rhythm of reggaeton and creole trap. They cry and sing. They film everything with cell phones.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, July 18, in a Havana besieged by the coronavirus and the rain, thousands of people spontaneously came out to pay tribute to the last of their fallen heroes. The last and the best, say those who knew him.<\/p>\n
Daniel Mu\u00f1oz Borrego, the center of pain tonight, had been buried a few hours earlier. He died in the morning, at age 31. In a story on his Instagram, a peaceful farewell was read during the day: \"... at one point we will all meet again and walk the same path\".<\/p>\n
He achieved success very young, but he did not come quickly. Before the bright trail that began to take off with his takeoff at age 26, there were times when Daniel Mu\u00f1oz \u2014who would later be known as El Dany, The toughest, the Cuban reggaeton Sensei\u2014 had to sing for almost nothing in other people's shows .<\/p>\n
His story is similar to that of other iconic Cuban musicians who predicted much more than they did, whose careers drowned in tragic fates that cemented their legends in the popular Parnassus.<\/p>\n
The Dany grew up in that lively collision of sounds that is Key West, between the rumba, the timba and the atmosphere of the neighborhood. Writing songs with his left hand and, as he would in life, swinging on the makeshift basketball court. His mother knocked on doors to clear his path, but few were opened: \"He made himself alone,\" she said.<\/p>\n
Daniel Mu\u00f1oz, born on January 6, 1989, started his Medicine career and abandoned it to shine or burn everything on the track. Like him, a Roberto Hidalgo Puentes - three years younger - was bidding on his side to achieve fame in music, something that both would achieve under the name of Yomil and El Dany.<\/p>\n
Before they were DpuntoD for three years, they exchanged the same clothes to go on stage and they crossed Havana with pennies in the pocket for the bus. Viewed in retrospect, the duo's narrative is a classic success story, but everyone claims it is rigorously true. Many of the people who accompanied them on their production team grew up in the same neighborhood.<\/p>\n
After working together for a time as DpuntoD, they ran out of fuel, there were differences and they decided to separate. It was not his time, and each one got closer to other more consolidated groups: Los 4 (Yomil) and Jacob Forever (El Dany).<\/p>\n