A group of Cuban musicians including reggaeton duo Gente de Zona on Thursday won Song of the Year in the 2021 Latin Grammy Awards for 'Patria y Vida,' a defiant hip-hop song that has become the anthem of Cuba's anti-government protest movement.
A view of the stage during the 22nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards show in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., November 18, 2021. REUTERS/Steve MarcusNov 18 - A group of Cuban musicians including reggaeton duo Gente de Zona on Thursday won Song of the Year in the 2021 Latin Grammy Awards for "Patria y Vida," a defiant hip-hop song that has become the anthem of Cuba's anti-government protest movement.
The winning song's title, "Homeland and Life," is a play on the long-standing Cuban mantra "Patria o Muerte" emblazoned on walls and billboards across the island nation since Fidel Castro's 1959 leftist revolution. Government media has said the song miscontrues the Cuban reality, and officials blame the nation's economic woes largely on the Cold War-era U.S. embargo.
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