• His new song, 'Patria y Vida', has raised blisters in the Cuban regime

"You don't know which one has gotten involved!" Yotuel exclaims as soon as he enters the lobby of the Hotel Aloft Madrid Gran Vía. The Cuban singer is outraged at the collection of epithets that 'the Government of his country' has dedicated to him for fault 'of his new song.

"The Cuban dictatorship is very given to using the townspeople to verbalize the attacks but this time they have been the ones who, through the Ministry of Culture,

have called me 'jinetero' because I am with a Spanish woman

who, by extension, they point out as a sex trafficker. They do not realize that 'jinetero' is precisely one of the words that most harshly reflects the

failure

of my country's

political system

: that Cubans are forced to prostitute themselves with foreign tourists ".

And all for the title of a song.

The one that, according to himself, is the most important in his life.

"I decided to call it

'Homeland and Life'

because I felt that, in 2021, continuing to have death as an option is not for human beings. In Cuba, there is a doctrine that has been drilling us since 1959 that raises the dichotomy 'Homeland or Death."

Or, what is the same, 'either you are with me or die'.

Artists from the San Isidro de Cuba Movement collaborate on

this issue, plagued by peaceful denunciations without any type of hate speech

,

who point out all the abuses that continue to occur in Cuba and that countries like Spain do not want to see and remain silent.

His cause is also ours. "

The repercussion has been such that "the European Parliament has invited me to participate, together with Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, coordinator of the San Isidro Movement, in the talk 'Homeland and Life: Art and politics united by Cuba' to be held this Friday" , announces the leader of Orishas.

FORMER WATERPOLO PLAYER

A tireless fighter, Yotuel's combative personality is marked by sport.

"For me, from a very young age,

sport means life

. When I was 'very little', a 'scout' saw me playing

water polo

and recruited me. From the

age of eight,

I lived in a high-performance sports center."

It was not easy.

The singer-songwriter admits that, "at first, I missed my family a lot but then I got used to it. I loved training, I ate well and was surrounded by children my age."

Sport, he explains, has sculpted his body and forged his character.

"It is a

school of life

in which teamwork, perseverance and discipline are essential. It also helped me understand that there is nothing more capitalist than a podium in which the fruit of the world is visualized in the most graphic way possible. effort, sacrifice, work and personal improvement ".

At 44 years old, he has the physique of a boy of 20. "I take care of myself, I exercise, I eat healthy and I do not drink. For me,

sport is health

and I think it is time to start making people aware that this is much more than the way to show off an attractive physique. What's more, there are spectacular bodies on the outside that, on the inside, are rotten. "

Of course, he acknowledges that during confinement, like many others, the issue got out of hand.

"He caught us in Miami. We all thought that was the end. 'Go buy food!', They told us. And boy did we do it. He came home with two cars full of everything you can imagine. And

Of

course, the food had to be eaten and I ate it all.

I gained 24 kilos!

".

Nobody would say it by looking at the spectacular chocolate bar that looks on the abdomen.

"How did I take them off? Going back to my healthy eating habits. It's funny how, in school, they teach us math, language or history but we don't learn to eat well. We

eat out of tradition, not out of knowledge

.

Water polo player, cadet at a military academy, 'underground' rapper and political activist.

Havana, Paris and Madrid ... Yotuel is convinced that "changes are not chosen by us but that our lives are marking them." Also that "we should not be afraid of changing the way we live, think or , even, or to vote. It would be unfair not to allow us the possibility of giving ourselves 'upgrades'. Of course, the only thing that should be permanent is ...

the devotion to Real Madrid!

".

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Cuba

  • Spain

  • Real Madrid

  • Madrid

  • Paris

  • European Parliament

  • LOC

LaLiga Santander 2020 - 2021 This is the 'Generation Z' of Valdebebas: university students, family members and away from parties and luxuries

Valentine's Day Iker Casillas and Sara Carbonero: the love story that still moves Spain

THE CHRONICLE Citizens look to their past to save the present

See links of interest

  • 2021 business calendar

  • Lazio - FC Bayern München

  • Atlético - Chelsea, live