Israel Rojas rejects censorship against El Niño and the Truth: “All ideas have to be exposed”

Israel Rojasgroup leader Good faith and prominent defender of the Cuban regime, rejected censorship against Emilio Friasdirector of the orchestra “El Niño y la Verdad”.

“I do not agree with what happened in the Casa de la Música de Galiano with Emilio Frías (El Niño) and his group. Unless the work is an affront to human dignity or an incitement to violence, all ideas must and they have to be exposed. That’s what art is for too,” Rojas said on his Facebook profile.

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The censorship against Frias It happened this Saturday at the Casa de la Música de Galiano when the salsero tried to sing “Cambio”, a song of his authorship scheduled to premiere on YouTube this September 16.

“If what they wanted was to silence, well right now I’m eager to hear the song,” Rojas said. “Perhaps those who made such a decision do not realize that they are doing greater harm than the supposed one they wanted to avoid?” He asked himself and ratified his “solidarity with Frías,” regardless of his worldview. “.

The director of good faith pointed out that she has never talked with the director of “El Niño y La Vedad” about topics unrelated to music and added that she hopes that it is only her “and the right to do it, that continues to sustain them in this world, where they have come to give a little happiness to others in the form of a song”.

Another Cuban artist who showed her solidarity with Frias was the singer yeny valdesformer member of the Van Van Orchestra, who asked the artists for support within Cuba for El Niño.

“Please, I make a call to my followers in Cuba to remain vigilant with the situation of Emilio Frias. If a music colleague who has a bit of dignity can support him, that would be wonderful. don’t leave him aloneJenny asked.

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After the events that occurred on Saturday, El Niño reacted with a message on facebook where he warned that “one day everything will be different in Cuba.”

“One day the children will laugh, the grandparents will rest in their armchair, the young people will have a dream, but a dream here, next to their parents and their children! One day I will witness that indolence, abuse and greed was the end and extinction of an absurd bloodthirsty ideologywhich cost blood, pain and tears,” he said.

The House of Music of Galiano It is a state institution that belongs to the EGREM and is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture.

On Saturday, when El Niño and La Verdad were going to sing the song “Cambio”, the heads of the institution ordered the lights to be turned on, the artist’s performance interrupted and the sound engineer removed from the premises. Frías said that this would be his last performance in Cuba.

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