The ashes of troubadour Eduardo Sosa Laurencio arrived this Wednesday to Mayari Arriba, municipality of Segundo Frente, to which Tumba Siete belongs, his birth place.
It was a hard battle for the life of the beloved artist, who raised the troubadour genre very high and sang the Martí's verse with the grace of the poets and the voices that are heard, full of limpidness. However, death, once again in love, annihilated his resistance, and extinguished his life, but not -and it will never be able to achieve it- the trace of his fruitful existence.
Compay Sosa is an example of coherence, and of love for the causes that good people should never abandon. Heir to his roots, noble son of his Homeland, brave singer will always be a reference of what an artist should safeguard.
Cuba knew it and felt it; knows it and feels it. That is why there is popular desolation, sadness in the heart, and humidity in the faces. The homeland, which mourns him, reveres his stature.
In addition to the tributes that good Cubans dedicated to him in their hearts, there were others: “Look at Mayarí as it gathers to say goodbye to you, over the difficulties... even after you leave, you give a punch to mediocrity,” wrote troubadour Ariel Díaz Peña on his Facebook account, alluding to the tribute paid to him in Mayarí Arriba, where Eduardo Sosa was born.
The singer was honored at the Casa de la Trova Miguel Matamoros in Santiago de Cuba. Political and government authorities, artists, intellectuals and an entire people showed their deepest and noblest affection. In the social networks, the Martí's premise of “honoring honors” was also born.
The beloved singer and compatriot now rests in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery, where so many greats of Cuban history and culture are laid to rest.
