We are Buena Fe

Among the latest generation of bands from the Nueva Trova, a movement mainly promoting ballads, there is a pair of youngsters, outstanding not only for their musical arrangements and lyrics but also for their massive following who learn their songs by heart and anxiously await new releases.

Buena Fe, a duo started in 1998 by Israel Rojas and Yoel Martinez, both from Cuba's easternmost province of Guantánamo, offers timely songs, varied and sharp, appealing to an ever growing and loyal following.

First playing together at local festivals in Guantanamo, Buena Fe (Spanish for Good Faith) soon caught the attention of the national record label, Egrem, which invited them to Havana to record "Dejame Entrar ", and they have never stopped climbing the heights of Cuban popularity.

Named best Cuban pop act for several years running, they have released two other CDs "Arsenal " in 2003 and 2004's "Corazonero " selling out Havana's Karl Marx Theatre in a record four hours. I arrive early to their rehearsal and they both welcome me.