Por By Matt Wolfson/The Epoch Times.
But Mr. Marcos didn’t write the song for personal gain. He wrote it to send a message: that what he had seen in Cuba, the growth of communism that displaced his family, was happening in America. The question for Mr. Marcos is how many people will listen before it’s too late.
A Cuban Musician Comes to America, Makes a Career …
Frankie Marcos came to Miami when he was 13, from an island with an explosive music culture drawing from Europe, Africa, and America. When he was 15, he started playing flute and saxophone professionally, even as he explored Miami, whose black population tuned Mr. Marcos into the similarities between traditional Cuban music’s syncopation—its crossings of different “beats”—and the rhythms of American funk, a combination of blues and soul. These influences merged with catchy, commercial favorites like the songs of Blood Sweat and Tears to give Mr. Marcos his style.
“He makes arrangements and plays them technically to perfection, without losing the essence of what he’s trying to convey,” Mariori De Marcos, his wife, told me.
Mr. Marcos describes his work, with characteristic modesty, as the gift of others. “All my life I’ve been around good musicians, and good cultures,” he told me…
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