Van Van-Juanes against bang, bang

By:Rolando Sarmiento Ricart

The music is universal, transcends languages, connects souls and until the most belligerent in the world gives at some time before its songs or rhythms; however the Concert Without Opposite of the Colombian star of rock, Juanes and his companies, today in the Square of the Revolution José Martí, in Havana, Cuba, caused two very different explosions:


In the Island headquarters of the musical event, Cuban of dissimilar likes and preferences applaud the event from San Antonio End until Maisí, with the intense happiness and respect like will beat hands when opens the artistic veiled the Puerto Rican Olga Tañón`s unmistakable merenguera voice and continue voices, songs and chords being spread to the world by the waves satelitals of Cubavisón.

They are, in the great majority, young whose culture allows them to appreciate and to enjoy the good music in a country of high international level in the different artistic goods - that nobody doubts it -, for it, thousands will go to the square starting from two in today's afternoon, and millions, sat down in their homes, won't get lost a detail of the performances, also, of the Spanish Miguel Bosé, Victor Manuel and Eduardo Aute, the Puerto Rican Danny Rivera, the Ecuadorian Juan Fernando Velasco and the Italian Jovanotti.

Certainly, those of house are a gentleman blunderbuss that any Cuban neither foreigner will want to get lost: Silvio Rodríguez, Amaury Pérez, Carlos Varela, Orishas, X Alfonso and the Van Van.

The repercussion in Cuba is of love, of joy, of to learn and to teach the true reality that here one lives that is not the same one that the stateless persons and frustrated proclaim with rage and impotence. The young today many will go of white as the symbolic dove of the peace, but the red and blue colors of the free flag and sovereign that waves will also dress solitary as wanted to see the poet Bonifacio Byrne.

It resonates this way the concert among the Cubans - still without beginning - of Juanes and his companies; on the other hand, in Miamí, a defiant and Fascist minority from the first indication of the concert in Havana, threatened to Juanes and its family, hammered songs in the public road, spilled rage and smeared political resentments of lies and cultural ignorance, transmitted to the world in furious and vengeful images.

This late-night, when the historical Square of the Revolution José Martí is in silence and the Havanan streets murmur and comment the successful quality of the Concert Juanes Without Opposite, the Van Van of the purity will have won to the bang - bang of the flashes, of the bombs, of the death that need thousands of concerts like this to end up for always with the wars and the militarized frontiers.