For Cuba, there is Andy Montañez for a moment, said the Puerto Rican artist

July 6, 2018, 19:01 By Martha Cabrales Arias

Santiago de Cuba, July 6 (PL) For Cuba, there is Andy Montañez for a moment and vice versa, said l & # 39; Puerto Rican artist here today. next Sunday, he will give a concert at this city's Heredia Theater as part of the XXXVIII International Caribbean Festival.

At a press conference, the singer alluded to the intimate ties between the two islands and his attachment to Cuban music. thank for the support and affection that he has always received in this city and in all of Cuba during his many presentations over the decades.

It's a pleasure and an honor to come back here, he said, to evoke these first presentations. 80 with the orchestra Dimensión Latina, his debut in Cuba and the beginning of an artistic and human relationship that is strengthened with each new stay.

After 55 years of artistic career and 76 years old, he says that it is the same Andy always, with the same voice as thank God, more experience and some gray hair that already populate his hair.

Asked by Prensa Latina, he said that faced with threats and pressures from those who wanted to impede the actions of world-clbad musicians in Cuba, the important thing is to believe in their music and their audience, and c & This is what allowed them and will allow them to avoid these boycotts throughout their career.

International fairs of Cubadisco, Boleros de Oro and Matamoroson festivals, the distinction for national culture and other recognitions and events attest to the almost familiar presence of Montañez in the soundscape of Cuba, where his music brings together different generations.

In the Sunday show, with the artistic direction of Rodulfo Vaillant and the accompaniment of Puerto Rican musicians and Cuban Los Karachis orchestra, will be performed several of the most popular and well-known pieces of the canta

The Puerto Rican salsa player, with over 100 albums and outstanding worldwide recognition, centers the multimedia Andy Andy, journalists Julieta García and Adán Iglesias, in which his biography, records and interviews with personalities like Silvio are shown. Rodríguez, who said: the good thing about him is that he does not give up. »

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