Un Bob Marley en La Habana
José Orlando García músico callejero, se gana la vida desde los 12 años cantando. El artista callejero afirma que le ponen multas de 4000 pesos solo por cantar.
José Orlando García músico callejero, se gana la vida desde los 12 años cantando. El artista callejero afirma que le ponen multas de 4000 pesos solo por cantar.
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00:00 [Music]
00:29 I live in Cuba.
00:31 And the people here put a lot of money in me to sing in the streets.
00:35 And the only thing I do is survive.
00:37 I have five children without a mother.
00:39 And I don't know how I'm going to feed them.
00:41 Because if I don't sing, I can't feed them.
00:44 And the only thing I do is sing.
00:46 And the fines are 4,000 every time they see me out there.
00:48 Just because I have long hair.
00:50 Wow.
00:52 They say that's harassment. Singing is harassment.
00:54 That's a new law.
00:56 I've never seen anyone with a record.
00:58 A police record for singing.
01:00 Just because of that.
01:02 My name is Orlando. I'm from Cuba.
01:04 I have a dream. I'm a rapper.
01:06 And I'm persecuted just for singing.
01:09 How far are they going to take me?
01:12 I just want to be hired.
01:15 To give me the opportunity to defend myself.
01:17 To be able to feed my children.
01:19 And to stay here.
01:21 Just that.
01:23 How many fines do they put you?
01:25 Every day, 2,000 to 3,000.
01:27 I have to sing to be able to pay them.
01:29 Do you have the documents?
01:31 Yes, I have them.
01:32 Can you show them?
01:34 Right now, I can't show them.
01:36 The fines are live.
01:38 They put them in incisions.
01:40 Look at this.
01:42 Look at the fines.
01:44 Look, family.
01:46 How many fines does Rasta get for trying to make people happy?
01:49 Look at this.
01:51 4,000.
01:53 How many do they put you?
01:55 I've paid them.
01:57 But I always get the rest.
01:59 Because where am I going to get them from?
02:01 A little bramble from the Pinto Puerto.
02:03 I love it.
02:05 I don't have money to get them out.
02:07 But I have to pay.
02:09 Because if not, they'll put me in jail.
02:11 And I won't be able to play the guitar anymore.
02:13 And look how I have two fingers.
02:15 Look.
02:17 Just playing.
02:19 All my life doing the same thing.
02:21 I don't know what else I'm going to do.
02:23 How long have you been playing the guitar?
02:25 I've been playing it since I was 9.
02:27 And when did you decide to go out?
02:29 I went out at 12.
02:31 I've never stopped.
02:33 Did you go to art school?
02:35 No, I sold it on the street.
02:37 That wasn't for me.
02:39 This is for you.
02:41 So the guitar is something that you were inspired by?
02:43 It's part of me.
02:45 It's always been part of me.
02:47 Did you have any musicians in your family?
02:49 My grandfather, my mother.
02:51 It's something that comes from the blood.
02:53 And it's inevitable.
02:55 Who pays the fines? The police or the inspectors?
02:57 The police.
02:59 Together with the inspectors.
03:01 Of course.
03:03 Every time they catch you, it's 4,000.
03:05 4,000.
03:07 And it's records that I'm accumulating just to sing.
03:09 Police records just to sing.
03:11 They say you're already getting high.
03:13 They say I'm being harassed.
03:15 That's what they say.
03:17 Singing is called harassment.
03:19 If you, as a tourist, come to see me and hear my song,
03:21 you have to look around,
03:23 because if you don't, they'll fine you.
03:25 You have to sing scared.
03:27 I have to sing scared.
03:29 To be able to feed you and survive.
03:31 And in the corners, or in a park,
03:33 or inside a house.
03:35 I can't do it on the street.
03:37 And there's no organization, no institution
03:39 that hires you as a musician?
03:41 They say that because I didn't go to school,
03:43 no one hired me.
03:45 And I'm better than those who went to school.
03:47 I sing with my heart.
03:49 What else?
03:51 Reporting for ADN Cuba, what's your name?
03:53 José Orlando García,
03:55 your daughter.
03:57 Look, in the family, Carlos Milanés, Julio César Góngora.
03:59 Reporting for ADN Cuba, the truth.
04:01 Look, the sadness of a rastafari
04:03 who tries to survive
04:05 and walk the streets to make people happy
04:07 and survive to support himself,
04:09 to feed his family.
04:11 In the midst of a lie, a deception,
04:13 and a scoundrel who lives in our country,
04:15 our system,
04:17 under the lie and the deception, under the dictatorship.
04:19 God, country, freedom.
04:21 We just want to be free.
04:23 Free.
04:25 We want to be free.
04:27 Free, free, free.
04:29 We want to be free.
04:31 Free, free, free.
04:33 We want to be free.
04:35 Free, free, free.
04:37 We want to be free.
04:39 Free, free, free.
04:41 We want to be free.
04:43 Come on.