Pablo Milanés

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Expand Spanish Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox musical artist Pablo Milanés Arias (24 February 1943 – 22 November 2022)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> was a Cuban guitar player and singer. He was one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola. His music, originating in the Trova, Son and other traditional styles of early 20th Century Cuban music, set him apart from the style of Silvio Rodríguez.

Biography

Pablo Milanés, widely known as Pablito, moved with his family from Bayamo to Havana in 1950. He studied in the Conservatorio Municipal de La Habana, at the time the most prestigious musical school in the country. His first public performance was in 1956.<ref name=bio>Template:Cite web</ref> By age 15, he was active in "bohemian" musical circles in Havana, associated with the so-called "filin" musicians.

Although he supported the Cuban Revolution, in 1965 he was sent to the UMAP agricultural forced-labor camp in Camagüey.<ref name=maquillaje>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1967, he escaped and fled to Havana to denounce the injustice of the labor camp.<ref name="maquillaje" /> This resulted in his imprisonment, first for two months in La Cabaña, an 18th-century fortress in Havana, and then for a time in a prison camp.<ref name="maquillaje" /> He was released when the prison camp was closed due to international pressure.<ref name="maquillaje" />

In 1969, he became part of the Grupo de Experimentación Sonora, a seminal group of young musicians, many of whom became founding members of the nueva trova, which started as a movement with a concert given by Pablo, Silvio Rodriguez, and Noel Nicola on 18 February 1968. Until the late 1980s, nueva trova was the unofficial musical style of the Cuban Revolution.

Since his first recording ("Versos sencillos de José Martí" in 1973),<ref name="bio" /> he issued more than 40 solo records, and many more in collaboration with other artists from Cuba, elsewhere in Latin America, and Spain. His first record with original songs (the eponymous "Pablo Milanés") was not issued until 1976.<ref name="bio" /> The heyday of his creativity occurred probably in the early 1980s, with his records "Yo me quedo", "El guerrero", and "Comienzo y final de una verde mañana".

Within the context of the nueva trova, Pablo was widely considered one of the closest to the traditional roots of Cuban music, while being open to diverse musical influences from other contemporary traditions, such as Brazilian music and Blues. The range of his compositions extended from starkly political anthems to inspired love songs.Template:Citation needed He set the poems of Cuban writers such as José Martí and Nicolás Guillén to music. Some of his most important musical influences were María Teresa Vera, Lorenzo Hierrezuelo, Barbarito Diez, Benny Moré, Lucho Gatica, and Johann Sebastian Bach.Template:Citation needed He won the Golden Osella for A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He lived in Vigo, Spain, with his Spanish wife and two sons since 2004.<ref name=riñon>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2014, he received a kidney transplant, receiving an organ donated by his wife.<ref name="riñon" />

Since relocating to Spain, Milanés was publicly critical of some aspects of the Cuban government, though he remained dedicated to the Cuban Revolution. In 2011, it was reported that his willingness to speak openly about the failures of the revolution strained his relations with Silvio Rodriguez.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> At that time, he did not participate in pro-government campaigns.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Discography

• 1974 – Versos José Martí Cantados por Pablo Milanés
• 1975 – Canta a Nicolás Guillén
• 1976 – Pablo Milanés
• 1978 – No me pidas
• 1979 – Aniversario
• 1979 – Años with Luis Peña
• 1980 – Canta a la resistencia popular chilena
• 1981 – El pregón de las flores with Lilia Vera
• 1981 – Filin
• 1982 – Yo me quedo
• 1983 – El guerrero
• 1984 – Comienzo y final de una verde mañana
• 1984 – Ao vivo no Brasil
• 1986 – Querido Pablo
• 1986 – Años 2 with Luis Peña and Octavio Sánchez (Cotán)
• 1987 – Buenos días América
• 1987 – Trovadores with Armando Garzón
• 1988 – Proposiciones
• 1989 – Filin 2
• 1989 – Filin 3
• 1990 – Identidad
• 1991 – Canto de la abuela
• 1991 – Filin 4
• 1991 – Filin 5
• 1992 – Años 3 with Luis Peña (El Albino), Compay Segundo, and Octavio Sánchez (Cotán)
• 1994 – Canta boleros en Tropicana
• 1994 – Evolución
• 1994 – Igual que ayer with Caco Senante
• 1994 – Orígenes
• 1995 – Plegaria
• 1995 – Si yo volviera a nacer
• 1995 – Blanco y negro with Víctor Manuel
• 1997 – Despertar
• 1998 – Vengo naciendo
• 2000 – Días de gloria
• 2000 – Live from New York City
• 2002 – Pablo querido
• 2005 – Como un campo de maíz
• 2005 – Líneas paralelas with Andy Montañez
• 2007 – Regalo
• 2007 – Pablo Milanés en vivo: Amor y desamor
• 2008 – Raúl y Pablo with Raúl Torres
• 2008 – Más allá de todo with Chucho Valdés<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2008 – Feeling 6
• 2011 – Pablo y Lynn Milanés en concierto with daughter Lynn Milanés
• 2013 – Renacimiento
• 2014 – Canción de otoño
• 2015 – 50 de 22
• 2016 – Flores del futuro with Miguel Núñez
• 2017 – Amor with daughter Haydée Milanés
• 2023 – Amor y salsa with various artists

External links

• Songs and Discographie by Pablo Milanés in CANCIONEROS.COM
• Che, Guía y Ejemplo: – Song of Pablo Milanés dedicated to Che Guevara
• Evento en New York – Evento de Pablo Milanés en New York Sep 9
• Official Website
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