Cimafunk performed successfully at the Union Stage in Washington

January 13, 2020

Less than a year after his last performances in Washington, in March and April of 2019, Cimafunk and his band offered a concert at Union Stage in the U.S. capital, where hundreds of people sang and danced to the rhythm of Cuban music during a one-and-a-half-hour show that began Saturday night and ended in the early hours of Sunday.

In a conversation with Prensa Latina shortly before his performance, the composer emphasized that a key element for performing on stage is enjoying the work being done.

"Not everyone has the opportunity to make a living doing what they love, and I enjoy what I'm doing, I'm happy. That's how I take the stage, and that transmits to the audience, it's not something you achieve with a script, it's a moment of energy and happiness, and that kind of connection is achieved," Cimafunk said about the empathy he achieves with the audience that attends his concerts.

"All the songs are different when performing them live, no two concerts are alike," Erik Alejandro Iglesias Rodríguez had said beforehand, today better known as Cimafunk, who was born in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Río in 1989.

During the presentation in Washington D.C., attendees enjoyed and danced to songs not included in Terapia (2017), such as Se acabó, Apretao, La papa, and Cocinarte.

They also cheered on hits from that recording such as Paciente and Me voy, and especially enjoyed another of the most well-known songs from that album, Ponte pa' lo tuyo, in which Cimafunk invited those present to follow him in a catchy chorus.

As was to be expected in the early morning hours when the energy seemed never-ending, after the prolonged farewell with Me voy, the audience once again demanded the artist's presence on stage, and the singer whom the American magazine Billboard recommended listening to in 2019 happily returned to deliver a version of his song Alabao.

Once again this showman, owner of a distinctive aesthetic and a powerful presence, managed to make music the best therapy to unite and motivate, beyond different geographies, languages, and cultures.