CAMAGÜEY.- He arrived in Camagüey with the guitar at the ready, three months after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in Cuba; and before the harsh confinement he met the right people to share a sense of music and develop projects. Everything has flowed with Pedro Sánchez in this city because he offers songs to heal.
At first, he was seen in sporadic presentations on social networks, organized under strict sanitary measures by the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS), a new home of creation and complicity for him. He appeared in a duet with bassist Darío Valdespino and tried another format by adding percussionist Junior Agüero.
Charisma and talent make up the formula of the young singer-songwriter from Guantánamo who in two years can boast of indisputable triumphs: the collaboration of Wilmer Ferrán and the Rumbatá group, sessions at the Caonao Recording Studio, the promotion of the DVD Trovesías a cantautores del territorio, and part of the process of their first album with the musical production of Luis Alberto Barbería and the commercial license of the Recording and Musical Editions Company (Egrem)
Pedro Sánchez puts his songs to the test. He incorporates colors into a suggestive and copious soundscape. As if that were not enough, he has just presented a show with the accompaniment of the Marbly chamber orchestra, the tres player Jorge López, the flutist Lourdes Hernández Naranjo and the clarinetist Yissel González.
The José Marín Varona concert hall was the setting for that presentation entitled Time Has Passed, homonymous with the theme with which he opened the program of audio-visually recorded performances based on a DVD.
Between song and song, he recounted the journey of his intense career and he recurrently evoked his stay in Santiago de Cuba, where he studied Literature, experienced a "miraculous encounter with traditional song" that opened the way. “In Santiago, the music I listened to, the friends I met with are the fundamental part of this sound that you are enjoying today,” he said.
On clean guitar he performed Cuentas claras, Inmunidad and Cucucuncun. Adrián Cancino, the founding director of Marbly, orchestrated Time Has Passed,
Wave my flagpole, Without remedy, Walking, Song, Patience and Trying a guaguancó.
The concert was a nice trip through the decade or so of being a singer-songwriter. From the swing between love and lack of love that is Immunity, one of his first songs and his explorations to conquer spaces such as the Marín Varona room, which he aspires to systematize with other singer-songwriters.
He closed the concert with his main hit, Trying a guaguancó. The song was born at his 22 years old, and even at 30, he says, it continues to open doors for him because it sums up what he promises on his social media pages like a medical prescription. In real life and in virtual life with Pedro Sánchez you find “songs to heal”.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez