00:00 [Music]
00:29 I live in Cuba.
00:31 And the people here put a lot of money in me to sing in the streets.
00:35 And the only thing I do is survive.
00:37 I have five children without a mother.
00:39 And I don't know how I'm going to feed them.
00:41 Because if I don't sing, I can't feed them.
00:44 And the only thing I do is sing.
00:46 And the fines are 4,000 every time they see me out there.
00:48 Just because I have long hair.
00:50 Wow.
00:52 They say that's harassment. Singing is harassment.
00:54 That's a new law.
00:56 I've never seen anyone with a record.
00:58 A police record for singing.
01:00 Just because of that.
01:02 My name is Orlando. I'm from Cuba.
01:04 I have a dream. I'm a rapper.
01:06 And I'm persecuted just for singing.
01:09 How far are they going to take me?
01:12 I just want to be hired.
01:15 To give me the opportunity to defend myself.
01:17 To be able to feed my children.
01:19 And to stay here.
01:21 Just that.
01:23 How many fines do they put you?
01:25 Every day, 2,000 to 3,000.
01:27 I have to sing to be able to pay them.
01:29 Do you have the documents?
01:31 Yes, I have them.
01:32 Can you show them?
01:34 Right now, I can't show them.
01:36 The fines are live.
01:38 They put them in incisions.
01:40 Look at this.
01:42 Look at the fines.
01:44 Look, family.
01:46 How many fines does Rasta get for trying to make people happy?
01:49 Look at this.
01:51 4,000.
01:53 How many do they put you?
01:55 I've paid them.
01:57 But I always get the rest.
01:59 Because where am I going to get them from?
02:01 A little bramble from the Pinto Puerto.
02:03 I love it.
02:05 I don't have money to get them out.
02:07 But I have to pay.
02:09 Because if not, they'll put me in jail.
02:11 And I won't be able to play the guitar anymore.
02:13 And look how I have two fingers.
02:15 Look.
02:17 Just playing.
02:19 All my life doing the same thing.
02:21 I don't know what else I'm going to do.
02:23 How long have you been playing the guitar?
02:25 I've been playing it since I was 9.
02:27 And when did you decide to go out?
02:29 I went out at 12.
02:31 I've never stopped.
02:33 Did you go to art school?
02:35 No, I sold it on the street.
02:37 That wasn't for me.
02:39 This is for you.
02:41 So the guitar is something that you were inspired by?
02:43 It's part of me.
02:45 It's always been part of me.
02:47 Did you have any musicians in your family?
02:49 My grandfather, my mother.
02:51 It's something that comes from the blood.
02:53 And it's inevitable.
02:55 Who pays the fines? The police or the inspectors?
02:57 The police.
02:59 Together with the inspectors.
03:01 Of course.
03:03 Every time they catch you, it's 4,000.
03:05 4,000.
03:07 And it's records that I'm accumulating just to sing.
03:09 Police records just to sing.
03:11 They say you're already getting high.
03:13 They say I'm being harassed.
03:15 That's what they say.
03:17 Singing is called harassment.
03:19 If you, as a tourist, come to see me and hear my song,
03:21 you have to look around,
03:23 because if you don't, they'll fine you.
03:25 You have to sing scared.
03:27 I have to sing scared.
03:29 To be able to feed you and survive.
03:31 And in the corners, or in a park,
03:33 or inside a house.
03:35 I can't do it on the street.
03:37 And there's no organization, no institution
03:39 that hires you as a musician?
03:41 They say that because I didn't go to school,
03:43 no one hired me.
03:45 And I'm better than those who went to school.
03:47 I sing with my heart.
03:49 What else?
03:51 Reporting for ADN Cuba, what's your name?
03:53 José Orlando García,
03:55 your daughter.
03:57 Look, in the family, Carlos Milanés, Julio César Góngora.
03:59 Reporting for ADN Cuba, the truth.
04:01 Look, the sadness of a rastafari
04:03 who tries to survive
04:05 and walk the streets to make people happy
04:07 and survive to support himself,
04:09 to feed his family.
04:11 In the midst of a lie, a deception,
04:13 and a scoundrel who lives in our country,
04:15 our system,
04:17 under the lie and the deception, under the dictatorship.
04:19 God, country, freedom.
04:21 We just want to be free.
04:23 Free.
04:25 We want to be free.
04:27 Free, free, free.
04:29 We want to be free.
04:31 Free, free, free.
04:33 We want to be free.
04:35 Free, free, free.
04:37 We want to be free.
04:39 Free, free, free.
04:41 We want to be free.
04:43 Come on.
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