Biography
Silvio Rodríguez Dominguez, 29 November 1946, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. A protean figure in the landscape of Latin American culture, Rodríguez inspires and nourishes those listeners in search of songs that are popular and tuneful, but also lyrically ambitious and defiant of genres and conventions. Rodríguez’s miraculous body of work and relentless desire to experiment compares easily to that of John Lennon, Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder. In theory, Rodríguez belongs to the movement known as ‘nueva trova’, that took Latin America by storm in the 70s. Some of his most political songs, such as the historically flavoured ‘Playa Girón’ and the symbolic ‘Unicornio’, were embraced by leftist revolutionaries as anthems that justified and applauded their fight for democracy. The eerie beauty of Rodríguez’s music, however, transcends any political ideology and he is at his best when...
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