Cuba paid tribute to iconic and beloved musician

 HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 3 (ACN) Since Saturday afternoon, in the island and in many other places of the world where Cuban music is enjoyment and essence, the songs of Paulito FG have been playing.

It has been a spontaneous tribute to the man who included his songs in the soundtrack of successive generations, and joined talent, charisma and artistic originality with a loyal and attached attitude to his people, and in defense of our identity and culture, Granma newspaper reported.

As well as in homes, countless messages on social networks expressed the collective grief for the death of Pablo Fernandez Gallo, at 63, in a traffic accident.

The tribute extended on Sunday to the funeral home on Calzada and K, which was attended by authorities, personalities, colleagues and admirers to bid him farewell.

Floral offerings by Army General Raul Castro Ruz and the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, led the multitudinous farewell before the burial at the Pantheon of Culture in the Colon Necropolis.

With the death of the performer, composer and music producer, creator of emblematic pieces such as De La Habana and Te deseo suerte, "Cuban music loses one of its most genuine and versatile exponents, a worthy continuator of our great musical tradition, who triumphed for more than three decades in Cuba and shone on multiple international stages, putting the name of his homeland on high.

Faithful to his roots, Paulito was loyal to the affection lavished on him by his people and to the values of Cuban culture and the Cuban Revolution," stated the Cuban Institute of Music in a press release.