Posthumous album "Amor y salsa" - 80th Anniversary of Pablo Milanés to be released

April 2, 2023

'Amor y salsa, 80th Anniversary' of Pablo Milanés will be the title of the singer's posthumous album that will be released soon, announced today on social networks by sources from his work team, just over four months after the death of this towering figure of Cuban culture.

According to the note, released on Pablo's own profile, the album will be released very soon and in it the artist surrounded himself with great music artists to together pay tribute to his work, this time in a salsa version.

It was a project recorded together with prestigious composers and singers such as Alejandro Sanz, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Andy Montañez, Juanes, Diego Torres, Oscar D'León, Rosario, Ismael Miranda, Luis Enrique and La India.

The phonogram also features Francisco Céspedes, Ana Belén, El Canario, Aymée Nuviola and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yotuel, Caco Senante, Víctor Manuelle and Isaac Delgado, the text adds.

It is an album with classic songs from Pablo Milanés' repertoire and some unreleased tracks, totaling 20 songs. Of these, 18 are collaborations and two others are sung by Pablo as a solo artist. The songs were adapted to the salsa genre with arrangements by Dagoberto González Jr., musical director and producer of the project.

To make the album a reality, it was recorded in Havana, Madrid, Miami, Puerto Rico, New Jersey and New York.

Pablo Milanés' artistic trajectory made him one of the most important singers of trovadorismo and Cuban culture in recent decades, to the point that his songs are known by Cubans of several generations, and also by people from all over the world.

At the time of his death, Pablo was 79 years old and lived in Spain, where he was receiving medical treatment for complications related to his delicate health condition.

The last concert he performed in Cuba took place in June of last year, when the Ciudad Deportiva was filled with hundreds of people who sang with him the mythical melodies that for years were part of the imagination and popular culture on the island.

Pablo was considered one of the founders and one of the most outstanding exponents of the Nueva Trova Cubana, together with Silvio Rodríguez, a movement they created in the early 1970s according to his biographers.

The most celebrated albums of his career came precisely in those years and also in 1985, with "Querido Pablo", a phonogram in which musicians close to him participated, such as Víctor Manuel, Ana Belén, Luis Eduardo Aute, Joan Manuel Serrat and Silvio Rodríguez himself.