Today a letter from Gala de Lucia. She created a beautiful song about a revolving door, and now she has her own YouTube channel:
This is her letter, translated from Spanish:
When I read this poem, which was a translation made by Martijn Benders of a Serbian poet, I immediately understood that this poem in some way represents Cuba and its history of turbulence. A revolving door may seem like a common object, but it has something mysterious, doesn’t it? Try to remember the feeling you have when you go through it. For a short time, you are in a twilight zone between worlds, you are in the revolving door.
But it is also a door that is often present in banks and large shopping centers, so you could perhaps say that this is a song against capitalism. I can see how you could interpret it that way.
It is even a bit religious, the people in the revolving door, they are our ancestors, our real family.
So it is also a song and a poem about not fully belonging to this world. I know many people have this feeling, this feeling of not really belonging here.
That is also what the revolving door symbolizes, it is an escape to another identity, another world.
I hope people can appreciate this song. Personally, it is one of my favorites. If you can appreciate it, please consider adding it to your list on Spotify:
The life of an artist is too difficult nowadays, it is hard to attract people’s attention. I might live in the Netherlands, but actually, it is worse here than in Cuba, here people are always too busy to notice they are actually alive 🙂
Now that the madmen of this world have started their wars again and Russian ships are docking in Cuba, I hope the magic door starts to spin the right way. Sometimes you also think, not too fast, please.
Gala de Lucia
If you would like to help her, please add her on Spotify:
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