A Cuban anesthesiologist in Barcelona connects with the artist’s songs to create a network of hope in times of COVID-19. It has become routine for Gretel Colomé to finish her shift, get in her car, and cry.
A Cuban anesthesiologist and emergency physician who works in the ICU in a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, Colomé rides home after exhausting nights treating COVID-19 patients, and also serving as the connection between the bereft and the loved ones they lose without the possibility to hug them goodbye.
Colomé is often accompanied by songs by X Alfonso, an artist who she has seen perform in Havana and whose career she has followed since he debuted with his fusion of hip hop, jazz funk and Afro-Cuban music; songs that have made her cry
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