Living through music, an interview with Teresita Fernández
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- 01 / 19 / 2010
“I have lived the way I have wanted” –started the minstrel- “I have been hurt a lot by the fake beliefs many have thought about me, but I have always been a good person and I will go on like that.”
A devoted lover of nature Teresita Fernández has in her apartment in the fifteenth floor of a building in Havana, an old bowl, planted –not with violets- but that turn the living room from her home a small forest, with the cat included, who is not called Vinagrito.
“I have sung to children because they are the hope for the future of the world, as it was said by our Professor José Martí, they are the future and the happiness of our present world, I belief that this 2009 National Music Award comes only through their hands.”
But today that future is uncertain -she went on- because there is nothing done to preserve the environment and those who are most responsible for its destruction only put obstacles in the way of those who are really trying to do something to preserve the human species and every other species.
“There is not much else for me to do because I have been what I wanted to be, but I am a very sensible person and I might feel happy by a dawn or I might be saddened by animal abuse; or those small actions I was taught to classify as human miseries.”
“To think also hurts, to see the destruction of a planet and human inconsistency when faced against such an important fact, to see some countries taking hold of others, to see consumerism, banality, I repeat it: it hurts to think.”
The future of children’s songs? That also depends on the communication media an on how much children are allowed to get closer or are encouraged to have access to recent or not so recent productions.”
“Today there is facilitated a greater access to more aggressive genres such as reggeton and not to children’s music, it is true that it should be renewed, because musical tastes also change with generations, but what changes is the rhythm, not the
lyrics and even less children’s sensibilities; that should never happen.”
Yes, yes, I fear two things, first of all death, because I have never been dead and second of all to be forgotten; but I will never be forgotten –that is what I believe, that is what I want, because I have sung for children, because they are the hope of the world and I have placed my hope on them, where else?
To live? Yes, I have lived, but always for music.
Source: AIN
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