Guantanamo.- After spending months battling against prostate cancer, The Cuban musician and film producer Edesio Alejandro died this Wednesday in Madrid at the age of 66, according to friends and family in social media posts.
He devoted a great deal of his life to the creation of works that have influenced on several generations. His death is another blow to Cuban music and culture.
Born in Havana, Edesio Alejandro had declared that he had been living with prostate cancer for years, the reason for his trip to Madrid.
The renowned Edesio Alejandro has marked generations of Cubans with a good number of magnificent works for television and film.
In the cinema, his creations are remembered in films such as Kleines Tropicana (Daniel Díaz Torres, 1997), Un Rey en La Habana (Alexis Valdés, 2005), Clandestinos (1987) and Madagascar (1994), the latter two by Fernando Pérez, with whom he shared many other projects among which his Suite Habana (2003) also stands out.
On television, the musician’s contribution was anthological in series such as Hoy es siempre todavía, the adventure Misterio de un tesoro, the soap opera Salir de Noche or the children’s El mago del cachumbambé, according to reviews of his work published on the website En Vivo.
Source: Escambray
