There’s a simple yet kind of catchy tune put out recently by Caetano Veloso, which came from a sentence he wrote to someone in an email. Later, he saw a film on Guantanamo Bay and remembered the email, at which point he decided to make a song out of what he wrote. On the recorded track, the backup singer’s voice isn’t so high as it is in the video below. The second video I’ll post features Caetano commenting on the song.
The fact that the Americans
Disrespected
Human rights
On Cuban soil
Is excessively strong
Symbolically
So that I don’t get shocked
(perhaps the last line can be slightly better translated)
April 27, 2009 at 9:41 PM |
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