A deeper dive into the Sons Of Mariel

Sons of Mariel is New and has deep meaning just like its founding artists, which happen to be  my close friends and traveling fam:

 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