What happens when you take two talented musicians with unique ethnic backgrounds and combine them? The product is the rich sound and meaning of the Sons of Mariel #SOM
The spirit of George Pajon from the Black Eye Peas and Diego Val from the Voice, and their
native countries Cuba and Peru, combined, to create something
extraordinary. This will be found throughout the new expected release from #SOM the Sons of Mariel album, The Great Divide.
On April 5th, 1980 a few hundred Cubans
marched into a Peruvian embassy in Havana seeking refuge attempting to
gain diplomatic asylum. A few short weeks later, over 10,000 Cubans had
crammed into the embassy. The government swiftly countered these acts
and had military personnel block access to the embassy. These events
helped trigger the Mariel Boatlift. The Mariel Boatlift was a mass
emigration of Cubans leaving from Cuba’s Mariel Harbor to Florida. Cuban
president Fidel Castro announced that anyone who wanted to leave Cuba
could do as they pleased as long as they had someone to pick them up.
The boat left from Mariel Harbor commenced soon after. By the time the
boat left ended in October of 1980, over 125,000 Cubans had relocated to
Florida.
Keep a look out for the Sons of Mariel on tour : www.sonsofmariel.com
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