Grammy-winning Cuban Singer Pablo Milanes died at 79.
The legendary Cuban singer and songwriter Pablo Milanes passed away at 79 after his prolonged battle against blood cancer in Madrid, Spain. In 2006, Pablo received two Latin Grammy Awards: best singer and songwriter for “Como un Campo De Maiz” and best tropical album, ” AM/PM, Lineas Paralelas,” which is a collaborative album with Andy Montanez, Puerto Rican Salsa artist.
Milanes’ representative confirmed his death on Tuesday. His fans are showing condolences toward his family and friends on social media.
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Since moving to Spain, Milanés was freely incredulous about certain parts of the Cuban government. However, he stayed committed to the Cuban Revolution. Pablo Milanes helped to build the Cuban “Nueva Trova” moment, along with Noel Nicola and Silvio Rodriguez.
Milanés upheld the Cuban Revolution in 1959 yet was designated by specialists during the long early stretches of Fidel Castro’s administration when every kind of “alternative” articulation was profoundly suspect.
Pablo Milanes was born on February 24, 1943, in a working-class family in the eastern city of Bayamo( then Oriental Province).
Milanés, known as Pablito, moved with his family in 1950 from Bayamo to Havana. He studied in the most prestigious music school in the nation, the Conservatorio Municipal de La Habana. His most memorable public performance was in 1956. He was dynamic in “bohemian” melodic circles in Havana at just 15 years of age, related to the so-called “Filin” artists.
In 1969, he became a necessary part of a young seminal group of musicians, Experimentación Sonora. A significant number of those musicians became establishing individuals from the Nueva Trova, which began as a development with a show by Pablo, Noel Nicola, and Silvio Rodriguez on February 18, 1968. Nueva Trova was the informal melodic style of the Cuban Revolution until the late 1980s.
Since his most memorable first recording, “Versos sencillos de José Martí,” in 1973, Pablo Milanes has given more than 40 solo performance records and a lot additional in a joint effort with different musicians from Cuba, somewhere else in Latin America, and Spain. His most impressive record with unique songs, the eponymous “Pablo Milanés,” was not given until 1976. The prime of Pablo’s creativity happened likely in the 1980s, with his records “El Guerrero,” ‘Comienzo final de una verde manana,” and”Yo me quedo.”
Inside the setting of the Nueva Trova, Pablo is generally viewed as one of the nearest to the conventional foundations of Cuban music while being available to different melodic impacts from other contemporary customs, like Brazilian music and Blues.
The scope of his arrangements reaches out from distinctly political hymns to motivated love melodies. This legendary singer set the sonnets of Cuban authors like Nicolas Guillen to music. A portion of his most significant melodic impacts were “María Teresa Vera,” “Barbarito Diez,” “Lorenzo Hierrezuelo,” “Lucho Gatica,” “Benny Moré,” and “Johann Sebastian Bach.”
Mixed with the soul of 1960s American dissent melodies, the Nueva Trova utilizes melodic narrating to feature social issues.
Pablo Milanés was cordial with Castro, condemning US international strategy and, for a period, even an individual from the socialist government’s parliament. He viewed himself as faithful to the insurgency and discussed his pride in serving Cuba.
