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Artist
Gerardo Alfonso
12+ albums
cantautorcubanueva trovaAllnueva trova cubana
about
Nostalgia for the friends who are not here anymore, a kiss to the city, a reverence for the most popular street character of Havana, a complaint, a protest, a love gift, a laugh: are some of the ingredients of Gerardo Alfonso’s songs, a musician who manages to talk about sadness and happiness with the same intensity. Since he started to compose and play, accompanied by a guitar in the 80’s, he became an idol of the young university people and of the followers of the songs that make people think, Alfonso has not done anything else than to sing to love. As well as inspire himself in the love of the couples, a motive nobody is saved of, he has represented the conflict of his generation, born in the first decade of he Cuban revolution, that grow up among symbols myths and social and ideological radicalization, but above everything, among dreams and contradictions, he moved to the pentagram in an authentic way, in form of questions, astonishments, cries in the dark or protests against the extreme, the absurd and the intolerance. His work is full of a contagious lyricism and of an energy that seems to be endless in the spirit of Alfonso, who in his almost 50 years old, exhibit it without any effort. He is an skilful composer in dominating and exploiting different musical genres and he even experiments and creates some of them. But it seems music ha not satisfied his creative thirst and he has written several script that will try to take to the cinema, once he studies direction, a
