Friday, 5 September 2025
Eternamente
Pablo Milanés (1943-2022) was a Cuban composer and singer, well known mostly in Latin countries. He was married six times. For his second wife, Yolanda Benet (of French ancestry) he composed the famous love song "Yolanda" when Lynn, the first of their three daughters, was born in 1970. Their marriage only lasted five years. However, a profound friendship between them was shown publicly mostly during Pablo's last years of life, when he was fighting against his terminal disease.
Lynn, as some of Pablo's nine children, became a singer.
Here's "Yolanda" performed by Pablo and his companion Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez. Silvio and Pablo were leaders of the Cuban musical movement Nueva Trova, started in 1967 and fading by the late 70's.
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