# Leonardo García will premiere «Not One Step More» in Spain and will share the bill in tribute to Marta Valdés

**Date:** 09/24/2025

The troubadour Leonardo García will take the stage this Saturday, September 20 at 9:30 p.m. at Jazz Ville in Madrid to premiere his new album "Not One Step More".


The Cuban musician, one of the most influential voices of his generation and of singer-songwriter music on the island, has returned to Spain to participate in the tribute that will be held for Cuban composer Marta Valdés during the La Mercè Festival in Barcelona, where he will share the bill on September 26 with essential names in Cuban and Spanish music such as Gema Corredera, Martirio, Raúl Rodríguez, Silvia Pérez Cruz and Maité Martín.


"We must start from the fact that this trip is based on an invitation to a tribute that will be held for the enormous Cuban composer and intellectual Marta Valdés, where I will be performing some of her songs; this as part of the programming of the La Mercè festivals in the city of Barcelona. Taking advantage of crossing the Atlantic and coinciding with the launch of my most recent phonographic production Not One Step More!, I will be holding some concerts and singing various songs from the album, but I will also review my previous productions. There will always be room to please requests for works that I have in my repertoire, both mine and by other authors (something I greatly enjoy)," Leonardo tells Cuba Noticias 360, who is part of that already legendary formation known as La Trovuntivitis.


The presentation by the author of "Poor People" has already awakened notable expectations among the community of Cuban migrants who have followed his work from a distance.


"In Cuba everything is very complicated, but we continue singing with the same dedication to the wonderful audience that comes to listen to us, even though emigration and the economic crisis have made it decrease noticeably, we have never been alone, something that commits me. The public that follows my work is what keeps me rowing against the current, wherever I am, and I am immensely grateful to them for being able to come and share a while with those songs that they have made their own and to which I owe myself," he says.


The troubadour's previous visit to Spain occurred in 2023 when he participated in the Barnasant singer-songwriter festival and later toured several European cities with the support of friends and followers of his work.


After two years he returns with a new album that, like his previous productions, defines the personality of an artist with extraordinary poetic force that emanates from his perception of reality and a deeply human perspective toward the environment where his work as a troubadour has been born.


During his concerts he will perform solo, but does not rule out the presence of a guest given that several Cuban singer-songwriters have settled in Madrid as well as Spain in general, even some from Trovuntivitis itself such as Yaima Orozco or Raúl Marchena.


"Generally I will be solo when it comes to my work, although some guest could appear depending on the venue and the city where the concert takes place. But note, on September 26 I will have the tremendous pleasure and immense responsibility of singing the work of Marta Valdés as part of a dream lineup: Gema Corredera, Martirio, Raúl Rodríguez, Silvia Pérez Cruz and Maité Martín, who are artists who have worked very seriously with the eternal songwriting of that great Cuban woman," he comments.


Leonardo will also participate in a conversation about the work of Marta Valdés that will be conducted by Cuban producer Darsi Fernández. The talk organized as part of the tribute to the Cuban composer at the La Mercè Festival will have among the guests Gema Corredera, Martirio, Raúl Rodríguez and the musicologist and niece of Marta Valdés, Lena Duchesne.


During the event, the documentary Marta Valdés, Sovereign of Time, by Cubans Raúl Nogués and Juan Carlos Travieso will be screened.