The Cuban rapper Yotuel Romero explained that one of his companions in the Orishas group, Roldan Gonzalezis finished.”
Yotuel wrote this on his Facebook profile, referring to an interview Roldán gave a year ago on the YouTube channel Eto Eta Gueno.
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“It made me sad to see it so finished. I was sorry and I removed it [la entrevista]. Help him. Someone who helped him a lot is telling you,” the singer told an internet user named José Hidalgo Gato.
Many people didn’t like his comment, including the singer The goddesswho reproached him for his attitude towards his former partner.
“You don’t talk about a friend like that, especially not in public. Blessings for Roldán, may God give him what he needs to return to the stage, great singer,” he explained on Facebook.
Yotuel’s words come to light hours after the announcement Return of the Orishas for 2024 with new members, all Cubans.
In the post, Yotuel responded to another user who told him that Orishas is nothing without its other founding members Roldán González and Hiram Riverí Medina (Ruzzo).
“Despite the fact that you cheated on her, you are now acting like a good person. Everyone here knows you have no face,” said Javier Alejandro Alonso.
“If you are in Spain I invite you to the trial on October 11th” replied the singer.
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The announcement of the return of Orishas has drawn both criticism and congratulations. Yotuel did not specify who his new colleagues will be, although he did assume that one lives in Spain and the other in the United States.
“We are coming again next year. We are preparing a new album. “I am very happy to return with Orishas,” he told Efe Agency.
There is speculation on social networks that those chosen could be the rapper Hugo González – known as Double 9 – and Enyel Cubaa Sonero based in Madrid.
Last year, Yotuel sent a message to Roldán to make it clear to him that the group’s successes would continue even without his presence.
“There have been Yotuel and Orishas for some time. Nobody is important in this life. Everything goes its way, with or without you,” Yotuel wrote along with a video in which Enyel Cuba performed the song 537 Cuba, which Roldán sang and with which Orishas became popular on the island.
According to videos shared on networks, Roldán continues his artistic career and continues to sing in projects with Ruzzo.
Last August they released the joint song Caribe.
In mid-2021, months after Orishas’ second and final split, they came to light Disagreements between Yotuel and his former colleagues.
José María Canal, artistic representative of Roldán and Ruzzoannounced a lawsuit against Yotuel, to whom he assured that “the only thing he does is to defraud Roldán and Ruzzo, steal, defame and enter into degrading slavery contracts.”
“It is Preparing a lawsuit against him for more than a million dollars“, he emphasized, specifying that one of the reasons for the possible litigation was that Yotuel retains full rights to the group’s brand.
Orishas came to prominence in 1999 and had a successful period that lasted until 2010, when the group announced their breakup.
In 2015 they met to a second period, which finally ended in January 2021. Yotuel then revealed that the split was because the three had different interests in music and wanted to continue as soloists without “continuing to impose something that no longer existed.”