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Milanés, one of the most recognized voices in Cuban music, was the founder and architect of the Nova Trova Cubana movement, along with other renowned artists such as Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola.
Author of classics such as “Yolanda”, Milanés released more than 40 albums during his career and won, among others, the Cuban National Music Award and the Latin Grammy for Musical Excellence.
The Cuban singer and songwriter was hospitalized on November 12 in Madrid, due to “the effects of a series of recurrent infections that have affected his state of health in the last three months”, arising as a result of “a hemato-oncological disease” from which he suffered “for several years and which forced him to move to Madrid”, according to a statement issued at the time by his agency.
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