Santa Cruz will have its mural of Nile Caparrosa, the popular trumpeter known to all and who died on March 31. Castillo Street, where he performed, is a witness these days.
The journalist Elena Falcón, on her Twitter account, published the progress of the mural, located in the place where, sometimes with her daughter Sislena, delighted the people who walked through the area.
In the street of El Castillo his melodies and his enormous sympathy will always be lacking, but this mural will help to never forget him. pic.twitter.com/cKYIwiLmwK
– Elena Falcón (@ ElenaFalcn6) August 19, 2021
The popular artist under the name Sabotage to montage is in charge of completing this work of art.
Nilo Caparrosa was born on September 26, 1957 in the Dominican Republic, despite the fact that not a few erroneously attributed his innate musical talent to a Cuban origin that was not such. Musician of always, his thing was always the trumpet, beyond some frolics with other instruments. In his Facebook presentation, he defined himself as a musician and later as a trumpeter. Next, he boasted of his dual status as a Dominican and a chicharrero, and of paternal pride in his daughter Sislena, to end by remembering that in his day he played with his illustrious countryman and colleague Juan Luis Guerra.
Sislena reminded this newspaper that her father settled in these parts 35 years ago for a cause as powerful as the love he felt for his mother, a Canarian who he surely knew by trade, since she was a singer . Sislena’s paternal grandfather was also a musician.
It is obvious that the young trumpeter’s feelings were sincere, because since then he has made Tenerife, specifically Santa Cruz, his home, beyond a few visits to his native country, where four of his six children reside. “When he arrived in Tenerife he played in an orchestra called Robinson, or something like that,” recalled Sislena herself, who on many occasions made memorable duets with her father, with whom she always had a special relationship.
