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Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
The Cuban singer and composer Descemer Bueno remains one of the island's most internationally celebrated names thanks to the successes he achieved with artists such as Enrique Iglesias, Thalia, Ricky Martin and Melendi. However, the producer has also admitted that his audience is currently “fragmented”.
In a recent interview with non-state media Cuballama Noticias, Descemer revealed details about his career at the time and how much his draft powers have changed since “he made clear his political position on Cuba, one that he may not have taken before.” . “.
According to the text, the artist has scored his twelfth number one on the Billboard list with “This is Life” and is hoping for another award from the Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. However, “the 52-year-old artist does not attract his natural audience with the same ease as before, namely the Cuban in exile who 'leaves and re-enters the island'.”
“There are people who obviously won't see you because you've already defined yourself in one way or another. And the vast majority of Cubans living in the diaspora are more responsive to Cuba and the people who need to maintain ties to the island. If I hadn't gone through something like that, I wouldn't have realized how much the audience can break and how much it can affect you, regardless of the fact that the composer is the one who survives the most. “When I went through bad times as an artist, the composer was like a mattress to me that never let me fall,” Descemer told the aforementioned media.
Among the artist's most striking reflections were those related to his “homeland”. When asked, Descemer explained: “My home is still Cuba and it is what I suffer from the most, because I lived in a Cuba that had all the flaws in the world but had the affection of the people I need most .” And the affection of these people doesn’t pay off. I'd rather say I was in a place where I didn't have a lot of things, but I did; “than to be in a place where there is everything without that.”
In this sense, he added: “The world is a scale in which we have to know how to live and I believe that we have not learned to live with a more Martí-like intelligence, so our wine is bitter, but that’s what it is.” our wine; or like Antonio Maceo, who was able to sit down and talk to (Arsenio) Martínez Campos, his enemy, and write letters with him and establish as a protocol that no one should harm him.”
He adds that these levels of understanding have been lost “not to improve, but to fall into a void and a lack of protocols and the knowledge of how to fight a battle with the enemy.” As has always been said , it is wisest to have the enemy nearby. The powers fight without any kind of mercy, all kinds of powers fight without mercy, but still they can treat each other with respect and sit down to debate. “I think we're a little far from being able to solve our own problems and it's the worst thing that can happen to us.”
Currently, the author of “Bailando” and “Súbeme la Radio” is preparing a concert with Kelvis Ochoa for next January 26th at the Manuel Artime Theater in Miami. Amid this maelstrom, he told Cuballama that he did not regret breaking his silence on the Cuban reality after “years of visiting his homeland, acting there and being criticized for its political ambiguity.”
Since 2020, Descemer has no longer been able to enter the island to visit his mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's. In fact, she recently released “Mercedes,” a song named after her ancestor and dedicated to all Alzheimer’s patients.
Regarding the legacy she left him, Descemer does not hesitate to confirm “Music”, adding that “she and my guitar teacher saved me at a time when I wanted to become a Camilito.” They explained to me , that I couldn't do that because with everything they had done to train me and get to my level, it would have been crazy to leave. They also asked me not to believe any of it because it wasn't real. So I focused on music, which was a sacrifice because I wanted to interact with the kids in the neighborhood, but music takes you to another level.”
Regarding his latest works, the singer said that he “once again crossed the boundaries of all genres to find out what the youngest are doing.” I had the opportunity to collaborate virtually with Mawell and by phone with Enrique Iglesias. I also had the opportunity to work with El Kimiko, Wow Popy, Dale Pututi and other new talents, young people with great power, beautiful voices, new blood and new energy who want to take on the world.”
Finally, Descemer spoke about composition, one of the aspects that has undoubtedly taken him further during these years of songwriting. Of the elements that a composer cannot miss, he highlighted “knowing how to find yourself and try to change the codes a little and break patterns.”
This is the moment he finds himself in now, he claimed. “Don’t start from scratch, but start in a curve. For example, what's being done in Cuba right now, in terms of the cast, reminds me a lot of rumba, it's an incarnation of rumba, a neoclassical rumba. I think it's really nice that rumba can also be combined with something so romantic. It is like an evolution of rumba, with harmonies and words that have nothing to do with rumba, but with the civic process that Cuban youth is now experiencing,” he concluded.