Silvio Rodríguez will begin his Latin American tour in Havana.

Renowned Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez will offer a public concert on the steps of the University of Havana on September 19, marking the start of his five-country Latin American tour, according to a post published Friday on his website, Zurrón del Aprendiz.

This isn't the first time Rodríguez has performed on the iconic steps of Havana University, and this time it will be the stage he has chosen to open his shows in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, and Colombia , as he announced last April.

At the concert he will be accompanied by musicians Emilio Vega (vibraphone), Jorge Aragón (piano), Niurka González (flute and clarinet), Jorge Reyes (double bass), Rachid López (guitar), Maykel Elizarde (guitar) and Oliver Valdés (drums), according to the information released .

The concerts of his Latin American tour will begin in late September in Chile, where the troubadour has not performed since 2018, and will run until early November to coincide with the celebration of his more than five decades of artistic career.

The author of 'Ojalá', 'Unicornio' and 'La Maza', among many other songs in his extensive repertoire, has not been on Latin American stages since 2022, when he filled Mexico City's Zócalo with more than 100,000 people.

With around twenty albums under her belt, her most recent is 'Quería saber', released in mid-2024 and featuring 11 tracks composed between 2015 and 2019 with intimate, social lyrics, infused with her signature voice and poetry.

Rodríguez, one of the founders of the Nueva Trova Cubana, participated in the 1968 concert that marked the founding of that artistic movement, along with other musicians who have been part of it such as Pablo Milanés, Noel Nicola, Martín Rojas, Eduardo Ramos, Vicente Feliú, and Pedro Luis Ferrer.

Since then, he has been one of the members of that group with the greatest impact outside Cuba's borders.

The Nueva Trova blended the study of the popular roots of Cuban music with politicized lyrics and is considered the continuation of earlier expressions of traditional trova and the songs of the filin musical genre and became one of the most influential musical movements in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century.

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