“No one can take away the right to sing in my country”

Cuban singer Alexander Delgado, director of the popular duo Zone People, He assured that, despite the controversy that sparked his last concert in Cuba, no one can take away the right to appear again in his native land.

“Of course, (I will sing in Cuba again), nobody can take away my right to sing in my country, nobody, I am Cuban and because of that public I am here,” he said in an interview with journalist Mariela Encarnación. , of CNN.

“Let us pray that things improve, to agree. We are all for the same ideal, for the same path, we all want the same. What happens is that people want it in their own way and everything cannot be like this. We have than to find a way for everyone to enter into a single-line consensus, “said Alexander.

“I believe that this is not a hidden treasure and to achieve this it has to be between all of us and respect each other, I believe that we have to respect ourselves. I understand (…) there is something that has to be clear: the achievement of Gente de Zona is fought by Gente de Zona “, highlighted El Monarca.

“And it’s because of the music,” added Randy Malcom. “For the music that Gente de Zona makes, it is for the talent that Gente de Zona has shown and is an ambassador thanks to that of putting Cuban music in all parts of the world at the top and we are very proud of that.”

Alexander said that during this quarantine what is most strange is Cuba because it has been a long time since she visited the Island and her eldest daughter is there, because the rest of her family is close to her.

“I miss my mom, my friends, I miss everything going back to the way it was before,” said Randy Malcom.

Zone PeopleFor its part, it has sometimes been the target of criticism from the Cuban exile in Miami – the city in which they reside – since they offered in 2018 a massive concert to which the italian singer Laura Pausini was invited and in which Alexander he referred to Miguel Díaz-Canel as its president and asked for applause for him

A year later, in September 2019, they returned to the center of the debate by offering another free massive concert on the Malecon which coincided with the visit of delegates from the European Union to the Island. The artists were accused of serving the interests of the regime and “sending a false vision to the international community about Cuba, in order to obtain financing from the European Union” .

The rejection of that concert even generated a collection of signatures in Miami to withdraw the US residence (Green card) from Alexander and Randy, which did not materialize because he received 11,000 of the 100,000 signatures required to receive an official response from the White House.

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