Good question! Artists always dream of saving the world, whether they live in Cuba or the US, Afghanistan or even Irak. But, why this article now on music in Cuba?
by Pablo Menéndez
Havana, Cuba
16 Dec, 2008
Time magazine prints over 4 MILLION copies in the US alone. This week’s cover story, Can Music Save Cuba?, by a writer who totally misses the true story, sure makes me feel that it is really important that I keep presenting my lectures up there when ever I can. The editors of Time seem to agree that this subject is very important.
I will be touring the US for around 3 weeks in late March / early April. Can you organize a lecture for me at your school?
I am the only person born and raised in the US who has been living and working as a musician / band leader IN CUBA, for over 40 years now. My work takes me all over the world performing as a Cuban musician. When I saw in Oct. 2003 that BUSH stopped giving visas to enter the US to ANY Cuban artists or intellectuals, since I am one of the only Cuban artists who CAN get in (I have a US Passport, a SS number and a US address), I decided to try to visit the US at least once a year to speak on this very subject:
MUSIC AND CULTURE IN CUBA TODAY!
Maybe the title of my talk could be, “Can Cuba’s Music Save the US?”
or
“Why don’t they want you to hear or see Cuban artists performing live in the US and why don’t they want you to visit Cuba either?”
What Keeps Us Apart? is one of my songs that I usually sing at the end of my lectures.
Who knows how many people read each of the 4 million copies of Time. At least YOU can help your students have a more balanced picture. One of president elect B. Obama’s campaign promises was to open up more relations between the US and Cuba.
We can start right now!
I will be touring the US for around 3 weeks in late March / early April.
Can you organize a lecture for me at your school?
Pablo Menendez
www.myspace.com/cubafusion
see 5 live concert videos of our band, Mezcla
By the way, in today’s world, we mostly feel powerless to change things. Reading this letter written by me at home in Havana, you can see how we can use today’s technology to turn that around. Feel free, in all senses, to send this letter to 4 million of your friends.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Pablo Menéndez
Havana, Cuba
“Can Music Save Cuba?”
Good question! Artists always dream of saving the world, whether they live in Cuba or the US, Afghanistan or even Irak. But, why this article now on music in Cuba?
by Pablo Menéndez
Havana, Cuba
16 Dec, 2008
Time magazine prints over 4 MILLION copies in the US alone. This week’s cover story, Can Music Save Cuba?, by a writer who totally misses the true story, sure makes me feel that it is really important that I keep presenting my lectures up there when ever I can. The editors of Time seem to agree that this subject is very important.
I will be touring the US for around 3 weeks in late March / early April. Can you organize a lecture for me at your school?
I am the only person born and raised in the US who has been living and working as a musician / band leader IN CUBA, for over 40 years now. My work takes me all over the world performing as a Cuban musician. When I saw in Oct. 2003 that BUSH stopped giving visas to enter the US to ANY Cuban artists or intellectuals, since I am one of the only Cuban artists who CAN get in (I have a US Passport, a SS number and a US address), I decided to try to visit the US at least once a year to speak on this very subject:
MUSIC AND CULTURE IN CUBA TODAY!
Maybe the title of my talk could be, “Can Cuba’s Music Save the US?”
or
“Why don’t they want you to hear or see Cuban artists performing live in the US and why don’t they want you to visit Cuba either?”
What Keeps Us Apart? is one of my songs that I usually sing at the end of my lectures.
Who knows how many people read each of the 4 million copies of Time. At least YOU can help your students have a more balanced picture. One of president elect B. Obama’s campaign promises was to open up more relations between the US and Cuba.
We can start right now!
I will be touring the US for around 3 weeks in late March / early April.
Can you organize a lecture for me at your school?
Pablo Menendez
www.myspace.com/cubafusion
see 5 live concert videos of our band, Mezcla
By the way, in today’s world, we mostly feel powerless to change things. Reading this letter written by me at home in Havana, you can see how we can use today’s technology to turn that around. Feel free, in all senses, to send this letter to 4 million of your friends.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
Pablo Menéndez
Havana, Cuba