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adorocinema
  • 11/18/2024
Transcript
00:00When you see my health don't stop failing
00:08And I'm going down, going down slow
00:30When this thing started, this music was made up
00:34to tell another brother or sister
00:36that something was going to happen to them.
00:40It served as a code, as a grammar
00:43to help formulate strategies against slavery.
00:49Africa, in that sense,
00:51had a great influence on all the popular and traditional music
00:56that is made in Cuba.
00:58This is present in Jongo, in samba,
01:02in machismo, in rap, in hip-hop.
01:17We feel joy, we feel happiness,
01:21but we also feel pain.
01:29So it's my representation, at this moment,
01:33more genuinely.
01:39From Angola to Brazil.
01:41This mixture of Africa and Spain,
01:44of my people, of my house, of my street, of my sun.
01:49But a thousand millions of people
01:52who belong to the regime come from Africa.
01:56Oh, Africa!
01:58You were born again
02:00to fulfill your destiny as Mother of Humanity.