CAMAGÜEY.- David Viera is a “troublesome” young man and that is why he has suffered the bureaucracy embedded in the music affairs, because he came up with founding Antagon, a symphonic rock band and support it in Florida, a city traversed by the Central Road at about 310 miles from Havana.

“We started in 2008. We shut down in 2017 because of the disappointments of those who were left behind. The applause of the audience is nice, but it does not pay for guitar chords nor instruments. At the beginning of 2019 the band earned the level of professional, thanks to the boosts given by the Hermanos Saíz Association”, and he also told about the lack of understanding due to the technological aids required by their concerts, since each song has a video clip with the translation to Spanish.

“My goals have been clear to me since I took a guitar at 17, when I was studying to be an accountant. Soundtracks are our first musical reference, that is why we also do instrumental music, and in a lyrical level, the world of dreams and fantastic literature. Our name comes from antagonism and it shows how contradictory we people can be. I wanted to make a mixture to evoke sensations”, and pointed out the stereotypes since “behind a “hairy man” with earrings and tattoos can be a master’s degree or an engineer; and vice versa, in this David, there is a rocker”.

In 2016, after they won the Popularity Award in Cuerda Viva, for the song My fate, the band changed the lead singer, has members that live in distant territories like Sancti Spíritus province, Camagüey y Florida cities. David knows it is time to show the new strengths of the project.

“We send the songs, the scores among ourselves and we schedule the rehearsal at least once a month. It is not only the voice, but to find a musician with an open mind, because of the taboos. We have been perceived well, but the first reaction of a professional musician is with skepticism, then they change their minds. We like to be recognized beyond the genre”, claimed before sharing Antagon’s projections for 2020.

“We are preparing an album. I already set La serenata del poeta to music, a poem by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. It is one of the few songs we have in Spanish, as a tribute to her and as the beginning of a path, because we have thought about San Juan de la Cruz and other poets in general. We also want to make a video clip and a concert with Camagüey Symphonic Orchestra”, and told us also about their attempt to set a bimonthly gig in Florida.

“Each song is a child. I write the lyrics in English, but I know I think in Cuban. But we are very careful with what we say. When the Cuerda Viva award, we had voted coming from Argentina, Colombia, France and Canada. Recently someone wrote me asking for more information about us for a broadcaster in the jungle of Brazil. Our music goes beyond the barriers of language and borders”.