Silvio RodrÃguez
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez ( born November 29, 1946 in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba) is one of the most famous Cuban singer-songwriter style of music nueva trova and former member of the Cuban Parliament. His poetic songs have been known in the Spanish-speaking world since the 1970s and used and interpreted by other famous singers.
Origin
Silvio Rodríguez comes from a village within a very fertile region in the province of Havana in Cuba. In the area of tobacco is mainly grown. He is the son of a peasant family. His grandfather was a tobacco worker and known by the Cuban poet and freedom fighter Jose Marti. His father, Víctor Dagoberto Rodríguez Ortega, was a farmer with socialist- liberal setting. His mother, Argelia Domínguez León, was a hairdresser. On various Silvio has derived his enthusiasm for music from his mother, who sang all day boleros, sones and danzones from Santiago de Cuba. On some occasions, she has also helped her son with his artistic work.
Career
Since the age of six he lived in Havana. The age of seven he began to write poems. Since 1955, he took piano lessons. In 1961, he participated as a student at the national literacy campaign in the rural regions of Cuba. In the same year he joined the newly formed student militia. Age of fifteen, he set in 1962 at the youth magazine Mella as a cartoonist before and immediately received his first orders.
In 1964 he was drafted for military service, which he took in the westernmost tip of Cuba. The Revolution Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias armed forces (FAR ) Silvio Rodríguez Esteban Baños got to know who gave him further instruction on the guitar, which is his most important musical instrument ever since. He wrote further and composed some pieces. His first public appearance was at the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana. Sang along with Luis López and he also presented itself in two amateur festivals of the Revolution Armed Forces. In March 1967, he completed his military service. In the same year he had, the only shoes that he owned his first appearance in the television Música y Estrellas, where he appeared with his military boots at this time.
Crucial to his development work under Leo Brouwer in the now legendary group was for Tonexperimente ( Grupo de Sonora experimentacion ) of the Cuban Film Institute ICAIC. There he met with other songwriters and published his first songs and plates.
The first independent record with songs by Silvio Rodríguez was published in 1975, entitled Días y Flores (days and flowers) after eight years working as an artist and hundreds of songs he had composed in this period. It was sold in 1978 in the Federal Republic of Germany from the record label plans. Published in 1996, Frank Viehweg a CD entitled The Sture, on which he recites his own adaptations of Silvio's songs to the original melodies.
Since May 2010 Rodríguez runs his own blog titled " Segunda Cita ". Also in 2010, he launched the ongoing concert series " Conciertos en los barrios " free occur in the context of those well-known musicians in disadvantaged neighborhoods - first on the outskirts of Havana, and later also in other cities of Cuba.
Positions
In April 2003, Rodríguez was among a group of prominent Cuban cultural workers who signed one in the newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, Granma published open letter, which was sent to friends of Cuba in the world and international criticism of the human rights policy of the Cuban government as anti-Cuban campaign of vilification rejected: in the weeks before President Fidel Castro had in a known as the " black spring" crackdown 75 critical journalists and civil rights activists sentenced to long prison terms in summary proceedings and leave three young black Cubans after the bloodless failed attempt of a ship hijacking also executed after summary trials.
In March 2010, Rodriguez said during a press conference in Havana for the presentation of his album Segunda Cita, Cuba " scream after reviewing a pile of things, concepts, even from institutions," the revolution must you overcome "R", proceed to the evolution and renew so. He very much hope that his unofficial information were true, after which such a comprehensive review takes place ( by the government). Two days later appeared in the Granma a cartoon in which Rodríguez following sentences were placed in the mouth: "Yes ... I used to sing for the world's poor. That was before I became rich through protest songs. "
In September 2011, it came to the publicly announced and widely discussed in the Cuban cultural scene break between the two most prominent representatives and co-founder of the Nueva Trova, Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanes. Milanes had commented on the edge of a concert tour in Miami in interviews critical political situation in Cuba, prompting him Rodríguez sharp attack on his blog and suggested, among other things, Milanes had expressed criticism from financial calculus in order to sell more tickets for his concert tour. Milanes replied by stating that he would Rodríguez, who had once been his brother, never forgive " double betrayal " that the public " lies and distortions " constitute about his person.
In September 2013 Rodríguez was responsible for the mediation of a cultural-political scandal, which had been triggered by anti-government statements of the musician Roberto Carcassés during a live broadcast of a major concert in the Cuban television. After the state authorities Carcassés had assigned a permanent stage ban, Rodríguez announced at first ostentatiously the occurrence of the musician in his next two concerts before he through his blog was a day later the news announced that the official ban withdrawn in the Culture Ministry after talks with Carcassés had been.