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- country:Cuba
- style(s):Songwriter
- label:not signed
- type:Band, Solo
- gender:male
- instrumentation:singer songwriter
- artist posted by:Mirmidón Productions
Line up
- ARIAN SUÁREZ (BASS)
- CARLOS VARELA (VOICE AND GUITAR)
- FERNANDO FAVIER (DRUMS)
- JOSÉ MESTRE (PIANO)
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Carlos Varela is an immensely-popular Cuban singer and composer. He became part of the most renowned stages of the island’s music in the late 1980s. Heir to a solid musical current such as the Nueva Trova, the singer-songwriter is closer to Latin rock in all its variants than to traditional Cuban music.
His poetry and music are unabashedly influenced by artists such as Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Joaquín Sabina and Dave Matthews. His songs incorporate the musical treatment of a band, although Carlos Varela’s most powerful ally in his more than 30-year career has always been his guitar.
In a passionate and free manner, Varela has sung to several generations of Cubans with lyrics that constantly evoke images. In general, his cinematographic lyrics could be considered as bridges: they go from uniting, to shortening distances. They are joined in people until they settle in their blood, using as a vehicle melodies to laugh, cry, dance, and make love. This is one of the features that gives transcendence to his work.
In an interview, Varela explains: “Music does not move governments. But music moves people, and people can move governments”. With a supernatural faith and persistence to building bridges with his songs, Cubans outside Cuba receive him anywhere in the world as one receives an old friend. Born in an island with an overwhelming history of migration and resilience, his followers in any geography are eternally grateful.