# Silvio today at the steps begins his Tour of Latin America **Date:** 09/19/2025 Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez kicks off this Friday with a concert in Havana his new tour of Latin America, a tour that he feels "like going to the house of old and dear friends", he explains in statements to EFE. After three years without taking the stage, the renowned troubadour assures in writing that he wishes to return to perform live in this series of concerts that are expected to take him to Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Colombia in what remains of 2025. "I do it because I feel the desire and because I see that by doing it I do something good for people who also want it. I also do it because it means work, something very healthy in this world", Rodríguez affirms. He assures that "music and words communicate" and "create empathies", something that is "much needed" nowadays. He also says that it is a "privilege" to be able to "accompany and connect". Silvio Rodríguez, legend of Latin music The artist highlights that he has put together a repertoire with classic songs, some from his latest released album, 'Quería saber', and also certain new pieces, songs that will appear in his next studio work, which will be called 'Cualquiera que nace en Cuba'. In this series of concerts, Rodríguez will be supported on stage by musicians Emilio Vega (vibraphone), Jorge Aragón (piano), Niurka González (flute and clarinet), Jorge Reyes (double bass), Rachid López (guitar), Maykel Elizarde (guitar) and Oliver Valdés (drums). The announced tour plan will jump from Cuba to Chile, where the troubadour has not performed since 2018, and will then proceed, in this order, through Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Colombia, with one date in each country yet to be confirmed. Rodríguez had not performed in Latin America since 2022, when he closed his regional tour with a performance at the Zócalo in Mexico City before more than 100,000 people. Previously he had done a ten-year tour with more than a hundred concerts in disadvantaged neighborhoods of Cuba. More tours? Regarding his calendar for 2026, Rodríguez prefers not to advance certainties, beyond pointing out that he may "do it again", that of taking the stage to sing and play guitar. "I have proposals for Spain and other countries. We'll see", he adds. At 78 years old, he assures that since he began performing he thinks that each tour could be the last. "I never considered myself a 'stage animal'", he adds. With about twenty albums over nearly six decades of career, the author of songs like Ojalá and Unicornio, released in mid-2024 his studio album 'Quería saber', with eleven songs of intimate and social lyrics, dressed in the characteristic stamp of his voice and poetic style. Rodríguez, one of the founders of the Nueva Trova Cubana, participated in 1968 in the concert that marked the foundation of this artistic movement, together with other musicians who have been part of it such as Pablo Milanés, Noel Nicola, Martín Rojas, Eduardo Ramos, Vicente Feliú and Pedro Luis Ferrer. La Nueva Trova Since then Rodríguez is one of the members of that collective with the greatest impact outside the borders of Cuba. At present he is also one of the few who remain active La Nueva Trova mixed the study of the popular roots of Cuban music with politicized lyrics in the wake of the triumph of the revolution in 1959. The genre is considered the continuation of previous expressions of traditional trova and the so-called filin and became one of the most influential musical movements in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century.