Even socialist Cuba, the birthplace of salsa and so a lot of a form of rhythms that conquered the area, has surrendered to the invasion of South Korean pop music.
Thirteen-thousand kilometres separate the Asian nation and the Caribbean island, moreover their entirely varied languages and cultures.
Alternatively, all of these differences vanish in a second for the young those that attended “discorea”, a dancing build for Okay-pop enthusiasts.
Twenty-four-yr-outdated Francisco Piedra, who adopted the artistic title ‘Ken,’ by no manner misses an tournament and rehearses each day.
He aspires to be a Okay-pop choreographer.
“Okay-pop has given me happiness, it has given me an international where I will also be myself. I will trip laughing, singing, dancing, and expressing myself as I essentially am,” he mentioned.
Dedicated fans salvage within the capital, Havana, nearly each weekend to dispute their moves and exchange the most up-to-date gossip on their favourite Okay-pop artists.
Earlier this yr, Cuba and South Korea re-established diplomatic family that had been severed after the Cuban revolution in 1959.
Alternatively, Okay-Pop made its manner to the island round four years within the past when mobile web carrier for mobile phones finally grew to change into accessible.
The Okay-pop tribe, as they like to name themselves, uses their phones to protect up to this level on the most up-to-date Okay-pop songs and dance moves.
Tania Abreu is an digital engineer by career and the leader of the Macrocosmos cultural project specialising in this genre.
She mentioned Okay-pop has change into popular no longer best possible thanks to the standard of the music nonetheless also since the songs contact on social considerations which could maybe maybe be frequent in Cuba.
“When the kids stumbled on out that it’s a colorful attempting music, very ravishing music, that has nice lyrics, they began to salvage them and known with that world,” she mentioned.
There could be now not always any accurate preference of parents collaborating in this mainly youthful Okay-pop circulate, nonetheless she mentioned so a lot of thousand folks are involved and are very visible in Havana and Santiago de Cuba.
