A music video slamming a Cuban communist slogan has gone viral — and has really got under the Cuban regime’s skin. “Patria y Vida” or, Homeland and Life, is an intentional flip of the late Cuban ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Yotuel Romero is a Cuban-born producer, actor, model, and singer who fled the island nation at 19. At age 40, his song "Patria Y Vida," or "fatherland and life," has become the ...

Alexander Delgado, Yotuel, and Randy Malcom (left to right) in the "Patria y Vida" music video directed by Asiel Babastro. (all screenshots used with permission of Asiel Babastro) Last week, a new ...

During the biggest anti-government protests on the island of Cuba in decades, protesters have been chanting words from a hip-hop song released earlier this year, calling for the end to Cuba's ...

This is the first of two reports on a potent new synergy between protests and protest music in Latin America — from Cuba to Colombia, from San Juan to Santiago. The music helped galvanize protests; ...

La voz de Celia Cruz en la nueva versión de “Patria y vida”, la canción considerada el himno de las protestas de 2021 en Cuba, le ha dado al tema un giro de “solemnidad” sin dejar de ser “bailable”, ...

As thousands of Cuban protesters continue to take to the streets to object the oppression by the Cuban government, one slogan has turned into their rallying cry -- "patria y vida." The slogan, which ...

“Patria Y Vida,” the protest anthem that won Song of the Year and Best Urban Song at this year’s Latin Grammys, is getting a full-length documentary through a partnership between Exile Content Studio ...

“Patria o muerte” — “homeland or death.” It’s a phrase often emblazoned on Cuban pesos, one that was frequently invoked by former longtime leader Fidel Castro during the dawn of the country’s ...

The lyrics pack in plenty of historical and current references, so we turned to Miami-based Cuban-American musician Lilly Blanco to translate the lyrics and annotate the references. The most important ...

Inside a maximum security prison in Pinar del Río, Cuba, a rapper named Maykel “Osorbo” Castillo Pérez is currently on hunger strike. He has been jailed since May 2021, after he co-wrote and recorded ...