# Luis Emilio Ríos Morales the only Cuban who has sung to the Eskimos

**Date:** 01/25/2022

Luis Emilio Ríos is a man who has already earned a place of honor in Cuban music.

This composer born in the Havana neighborhood of Cayo Hueso, among other musical virtues, lives in Miami. According to specialists, he rose to fame when Puerto Rican Gilberto Santa Rosa performed his song Qué manera de quererte, well known on the island and in many international circuits.

This is a merit not only for the Puerto Rican, a proven friend of Cuba, but also for more than fifteen national or foreign singers with recognized careers. Among them, Omara Portuondo, Albita Rodríguez, Xiomara Laugart and Gabino Pampini, among others.

The history of the song began in 1980 when it was something like a poem from a woman in love in which the text and melody underwent a sort of metamorphosis into a ballad, folk song, until it became what it was: a son with far-reaching popularity that has reached Hollywood itself in a film starring Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone, The Specialist, for film enthusiasts.

Emilio Ríos's journey through the paths of music is extensive until reaching a singular moment: the creation together with his brother Efraín of the septet Raisón, in 1983 and ranked among the ten best traditional music groups back in the 90s of the last century. They traveled half the world and recorded for numerous record labels.

In 2008, with Raisón already dissolved, our compatriot participated in a festival for the Inuit, native population of the Arctic, thus becoming the first Cuban to make move the rigid skeleton of men condemned to living in almost constant freezing and with a very particular idiosyncrasy.