Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez will travel next week to Colombia to participate in a conference dedicated to the Ibero-American music culture, 15 years after his last visit to this South American country, announced this Friday on his return from a U.S. tour.

In three days I'm going to Medellín, said Rodriguez.

"In three days I'm going to Medellín" Rodriguez said Radio Rebelde station, thus confirming his attendance to the Third Latin American Congress on Culture, which will run from July 1 through the 5 in that Colombian city.

Rodriguez, 63, was in Colombia for the last time in 1995 when he participated as a juror in the Cartagena International Film Festival, invited by the Nobel Prize for Literature, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and then he delivered two concerts in Bogotá.

In his most recent album, "Second Date," released in March, the troubadour dedicated García Márquez the song "Saint Petersburg", based on an argument, he explained, that the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude"suggested him.

"It was about a bride who gets abandoned. I never used it and years later I saw it infiltrated in one of his novels," said then the troubadour, stating that the song, which "looks like a story by (the Russian poet Alexander) Pushkin" "it has a nice clarinet counterpoint".

Rodriguez concluded on Wednesday in Orlando his first U.S. tour, after 30 years, during which he did not sing in that country because Washington denied him the entering visa.

It was "long" but "very interesting, (...) I think we did a good job and we feel good having done it," said Rodriguez, referring to the trip that included two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York and presentations in Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The troubadour was pleased to have visited "the United States after 30 years" and "to see too many people I hadn´t seen for a long time".