Tarde gris

Carlos Varela

Ni el secreto de las piedras
que caen en Jerusalén.
Ni los templos de la tierra,
ni la Torre de Babel.
Nada es más grande que tu amor deshojado,
nada es igual que cuando estoy a tu lado,
a pesar de la gente, a pesar del dolor,
nada es más grande que tu amor.
Ni las Siete Maravillas
ni el viejo Mago de Oz.
Ni el Titanic, ni la orilla
ni el misterio de algún Dios.
Nada es más grande que tu amor deshojado,
nada es igual que cuando estoy a tu lado,
a pesar de la gente, a pesar del dolor,
nada es más grande que tu amor.
Dicen que los años dejan cicatrices,
pero es que te extraño
cuando hay tardes grises,
a pesar de los años,
a pesar del dolor
nada es más grande
que tu amor.

And English

Brief Review of the author "Carlos Varela"

        Carlos Varela (born on April 11, 1963 in Havana) is a faithful Cuban musician and singer exponent of the new Cuban trova of recent times. Of the generation of Santiago Feliú, Gerardo Alfonso and Frank Delgado which is later than that of Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, etc., taking them as references for their themes, among them, Coins in the air, Like fish, Tropicollage, Lucas and Lucia, etc., but with a more current touch with respect to their times and dealing mainly with current social issues of Cuba today, having some problems with the political regime for its lyrics that, although they are not totally shown Opposed to the Cuban regime, they often speak of the main social, economic and political problems that plague their country.

        His studies of Theater at the Higher Institute of Art and the high level of the musicians who accompany him, favor the ideal coupling so that in Varela shows the dramatic, the emotional, the poetic and the musical in an exceptional and unique way . Each presentation of Varela is received as an event of great distinction and quality within the current Cuban music scene.

        At the beginning of the 90s, Varela made several tours inside and outside Cuba with Silvio Rodríguez and Pablo Milanés. In 1992 he published his CD "Monedas al Aire", where the song "Muro" appeared, a song that Miguel Bosé then made his main single from his album "11 Ways to Put on the Hat" (WEA -1998).

        In 1995 he made an extensive tour with Joaquín Sabina in several cities of Spain and recorded his album "like the fish"; phonogram that was the winner of the important ONDAS prize in Spain in the category of Revelation Artist. In that same year Varela and Sabina composed together "Tan Joven y Tan Viejo", a mega success of the Spanish musician who appears on Sabina's album " I pampered with you ".

        His performances are followed by Canada, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Sweden, Denmark, the United States and other countries sharing scenarios with Silvio Rodriguez, Pablo Milanés, Fito Páez, Joaquín Sabina, Mercedes Sosa and others.

        Nubes, the only acoustic album until the moment of Carlos Varela appears in the middle of the year 2000, with songs like "Muros y puertas" and "Una palabra" that will soon become anthological themes of the artist. In 2005, the award-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu chose the song "Una palabra" for his short film for the BMW carmaker "The Hire - Powder Keg", where the English actor Clive Owen became known in North America.

        A year later this song was selected by the American director Tony Scott (1944-2012) for the final scene of the film Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Marc Anthony and Dakota Fanning, among others. This helped that this ballad became his most versionada song and was translated into a dozen languages.