The musician Emilio Frías, director of El Niño y la Verdad, honored the salsa singer Willy Chirino with a performance of his song “It’s coming”, an anthem of the Cuban exile in Miami.
“The song that I listened to since I was a child when my very short father played it at home because it was prohibited. A song that is still alive today from 1991 to 2024 and with more and more faith and strength Cubans are waiting for it “It’s Coming”. Thank you @willychirino,” the singer wrote on Instagram.
Chirino knew how to capture the soul of the Cuban exile in his song “It’s coming”, an anthem for generations on the island, as it reflected the desire of migrants to return to their land, but in a system different from the regime established by Fidel Castro.
The song, composed at the beginning of the 90s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, reflected the excitement that the collapse of communism and the long-awaited arrival of freedom and democracy meant for millions of Cubans and the long-awaited arrival of freedom and democracy to a nation oppressed by Fidel’s dictatorship. Castro and the support of the “socialist bloc.”
The original manuscript of the mythical song was recently exhibited at the Miami History Museum.
At the end of January, the Miami History Museum inaugurated the exhibition “Willy Chirino: 50 years of music”, a tribute to the Latin music star and cultural reference of the Cuban exile in that city and the entire world.
In February Frías announced that he had obtained a visa for the United Stateswhere he has performed some concerts.
In September 2022, the orchestra The Child and the Truth He was a victim of censorship during a concert at the Galiano House of Music in Havana.
