Otaola reacciona: David Calzado "gozó cantidad" con sus charangueros

David Calzado, leader of Charanga Habanera and an emblematic figure of Cuban music in Miami, declared on July 2, 2026, on the show Hola! Otaola, that Stevie Wonder is the international artist who has most impacted his artistic life, highlighting the American musician as "a wonderful singer, an exceptional musician, and an incredible composer." The statement came during a fast-paced interview conducted by host Alex Otaola, in which Calzado had to answer concisely and directly. When asked about the artist who had most influenced him internationally, Calzado mentioned Steven—as he called him—without hesitation, explaining that Stevie Wonder's music captivated him with the exceptional quality of his songwriting. The host noted that Calzado himself had read Stevie Wonder's lyrics and was amazed by the depth of his work. Regarding Cuban music, Calzado acknowledged that singer Beatriz Márquez is a key influence on him in the world of charanga, although he clarified with a laugh that he avoids mentioning the names of artists based in Cuba. It was precisely the sound of the violin—the central instrument of charanga—that marked his musical path and led him to found and direct Charanga Habanera, one of the most influential groups of the genre in recent decades. Beyond music, Calzado revealed personal details during the game: his favorite word is "I love you," his hobby is dominoes, his favorite food is picaña (a type of steak), and he plays softball in his free time. The segment had tense moments when the musician lashed out at figures in the Cuban artistic scene who, according to him, return to Cuba from successful tours in the United States to act arrogantly before the media and colleagues: "They are frauds, they are fabricators, they are hype-makers, they are speculators." With a busy musical schedule and a renewed connection with Cuban audiences abroad, David Calzado continues to establish himself as a leading figure in contemporary charanga music. The interview revealed that, away from the stage, the musician maintains firm principles regarding artistic integrity and honesty in the entertainment industry. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 OPEN THE DEBATE — YOUR OPINION MATTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👇 Do you think David Calzado is right? When he criticizes Cuban artists returning from US tours with an air of superiority, is he exaggerating? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 DON'T MISS THE NEXT LIVE SHOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ SUBSCRIBE now → https://linktw.in/YBoeWQ 🔔 Turn on notifications (all alerts) to receive alerts when we go LIVE. Without this, YouTube won't notify you. Don't miss out! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 FOLLOW US ON ALL CHANNELS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔴 Live Shows and Breaking News Cuba → https://linktw.in/YBoeWQ 📰 Analysis, opinion, and Cubans in the U.S. → https://linktw.in/PkUqrV 💃 Cuban and international entertainment →    / @faranduladecuba   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CubansAroundTheWorld #cuba #alexotaola