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• 06 / 01 / 2009

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“I remember like it was today when I first met him in Cuba, at Casa de las Americas. We were just getting started with the New Trova Movement and he was following our first steps with both, curiosity and passion. It’s not just that. The first great interview I ever had, the interviewer was precisely Benedetti", he recalled.

He revealed his intention to musicalize some other immortal poems by the Uruguayan writer, a project he said can never be materialized. “Damn death, it overtook us!”, he said visibly moved.

Pablo Milanés will go back to Lima, Peru, where he will attend the Festival Claro.

(Cubarte)