Silvio Rodríguez is a Cuban singer-songwriter who continues to impress in his shows in Latin America even at more than 70 years of age, his texts, so stimulating for our reflection and reflection, continue to fill the stage.
His songs, performed primarily with guitar and vocals, are loaded with allegories and metaphors. The performances of his songs, often loaded with political themes, often give rise to different performances and make us think.
- One of the founders of the Nova Trova Cubana movement.
- A musical movement that emerged shortly after the Cuban revolution.
- Is Silvio Rodríguez.
- Nova Trova combines traditional popular music with progressive texts full of political ideology.
- These songs trying to escape the common lyrics they speak.
- Of everyday banalities.
- Proposing to talk about the ideals of socialism.
- Injustice.
- Sexism.
- Colonialism.
- Racism and other related issues.
It is a very difficult task, if not impossible, to find the best phrases of this singer, author with more than four decades of musical creation that has more than 500 songs, then we will see some of his most incredible phrases.
Silvio Rodríguez has always defended the Cuban revolution, that is very clear in your words. In this phrase he questions the price of revolution, he knows that many things have been lost with revolution, but also that more can be lost when it is over, he says that he has defined his position and defended it with all its consequences.
Moreover, he also shows us his rejection of capitalism, to put everything at a price, he doesn’t mind being considered a madman, because he knows that the concept of madness changes from one era to another. in these two verses 😕 If knowing isn’t a right, will it surely be a left?I live to ask; can’t be a luxury ?.
Love is present in many of Silvio’s songs. It is not so clear, however, whether the love he sings refers to the love of romantic relationships. In the following sentence: “My love has borders; it’s like a fountain that doesn’t prefer any garden?
What is clear, however, is that it relies on the power of love as a creative weapon, for example, only love generates the wonderful. Only love turns clay into a miracle?. In your words, we can see that love can do anything. “Let us continue to love in spite of everything, is love the greatest power of all powers?. In a word, Silvio expresses that “love is like a violin. The song may end now or later, but will you remember the notes forever?
Silvio doesn’t want to talk about what everyone is already talking about, he doesn’t want to make songs that reaffirm the belief that everyone already has, he wants us to think, that we’re open to rething what we think we already know. He also talks about hope, thinking of the future as a better place.
In this sense, it is one of its best known stanzas: “Let us hope that the rain ceases to be a miracle that wets your body. I hope the moon can come out without you. I hope the earth doesn’t hug your Silvio, it seems to be criticizing something. He may be a leader who has let you down, or another country on which your own country depends. Or maybe, who knows, he only talks once about the lack of love as the composer himself said.
We usually tag people. We usually designate and treat someone according to a single characteristic, forgetting that these people are much bigger and much more complex, Silvio tries to get away from this kind of judgment, with this phrase showing us that he is all he thinks he is. , but it’s also much more. Try to escape simplistic rankings to distinguish yourself as a unique person, as a person different from all others.
Finally, it should be noted that these interpretations of Silvio Rodríguez’s verses are just one of many possible, his songs being lyrics to reflect on. Critical words that are understood only in context, but that apply to as many contexts as people.