He would be 68 years old this Monday, but he is eternally remembered by those who love his music. He left behind the natural guajiro Polo Montañez, a singer who died suddenly due to a traffic accident in 2002, to Cuba, Colombia and many places.
Polo, really named Fernando Borrego, was 47 years old when he lost his life on November 26, 2002, filling an entire nation and beyond with stupor, mourning the hearts of lovers of his genuine poetic song forged in the countryside.
His death was as sudden as his entry, a few years before, into the Cuban and Latin American music scene where he established himself with a success that, according to him, he would never have imagined.
The self-taught interpreter born on June 5, 1955 in Candelaria, Pinar del Río province, sculpted his particular art and voice in the heat of farm work and the rustic sound of implements, hand in hand with his father and other members of his family.
With this substrate, the singer and composer of some 100 songs came to universalize the most authentic rhythms of the Cuban countryside, where he let himself be heard and loved with beautiful songs that came from his natural guajiro soul.
Polo once said: “I always dreamed of living for music. But it was not easy nor was the path so clear”.
And it was clear that his dream would come true, because in 1994 he formed a musical group and began to perform professionally at the Las Terrazas tourist center, 50 kilometers west of Havana, and there he was discovered five years later by José Da Silva, an executive from the European record label Lusafrica.
In short, Polo signed a contract with him to record three albums, the third of which he did not finish; The first was Guajiro, who brought the song Un montón de estrellas, followed by Guitarra Mía, and later it was the turn of Memoria.
This is how an original singer-songwriter from Western Cuba came to fame, first in Colombia and then in Cuba, in less than three years and with only two albums, who made entire squares of Mexico, Spain, Colombia, and naturally his homeland dance. native, among others.
In his country, a hitherto unknown Polo Montañez burst in and fell in love with popular taste when renowned artists and already established orchestras shone on the music scene on the soundtrack of the dancers.
With information from Prensa Latina
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