With the death of Edesio Alejandro, a pioneer of fusion, Cuban music loses a very original creator, whose works have already immortalized his name in theater, cinema, radio, television and the emotional memory of the Cuban people, the president wrote on that platform.

Earlier, Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso also published on X the feelings of the community of artists and people of Cuba for the unfortunate event.

Today we received another painful news: the outstanding Cuban musician Edesio Alejandro passed away in Spain.

We feel his loss very much, he was very loved by our people and especially admired among the youngest members of the profession, whom he always supported. His work will endure, Alonso said.

The renowned musician died of prostrate cancer in Madrid at the age of 66. During the last few months, he was under medical treatment.

In Cuban cinema, we remember him in such films as Kleines Tropicana (1997), Madagascar (1994) and Clandestinos (1987), the latter two directed by Fernando Pérez.

He was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2010 for “100 Sones Cubanos,” a record that was nominated to the Grammy Award a year later.

It is a collection that consists of five CDs which took three years of work and shows Edesio Alejandro’s interest in diverse genres of Cuban music, as he demonstrated with the rumba.

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