In the heart of Sierra del Rosario, a simple House is visited every day by tens of people from various parts of the world. It’s the House of the death of singer-songwriter Polo Montanez. The property turned Museum is located in the community the terraces, in the Western Province of Pinar del Rio, only 70 kilometers west of the Cuban capital. The Community applies a project of sustainable rural economy, based on rational tourist exploitation of the natural wealth and improving the quality of life of its inhabitants. The aka Guajiro Natural arrived to become singer/songwriter most revered by the Cuban public at the end of the Decade of the 1990s and early 2000.
His music was of Cuban radio and television, stellar spaces in even part of the personal disco of the youth of the island which worshiped it. But on November 26, 2002, he died of an accident of traffic, with only 47 years of age, just on the cusp of a short career, but almost unprecedented. The House Museum already form part of the tourist complex terraces, in a community that applies a sustainable rural economy project, based on the rational tourist exploitation of the natural wealth and improvement of the quality of life of its inhabitants, where the surrounding landscape and the grandeur of nature catches the visitor. Those who visit the House of Polo Montanez, who only could he had been able to record two albums, will appreciate among other valuable relics gold and Platinum discs obtained by the self-taught performer, awards enough to become indisputable memory within the popular music of the country, being the only Cuban in merit with their first album, the album titled Guajiro Natural. How beautiful symbols are also emblematic Polo white hat and his guitar, which immortalized the presence of the artist. Add other personal objects and distinctions of the also son illustrious of Colombia. Everything seems to indicate that Polo is there in your home willing to wield his guitar and play us some of their beautiful melodies.
Pole expressed his attachment to that community that since small walked in the Sierra del Rosario and in the terraces was inspired to compose dozens of songs that came to attract the hearts of millions of Cuban and Latin American. Because it is to say Jose Marti: where Lucia Castilian as a river our, calm and pure, with flashes of quiet light, among the branches of trees and mansa charged current of fresh flowers and tasty fruits. Applied to music pole knew of the Apostle of Cuban independence: for a new literature should exist a landscape, a few circumstances and a way of being peculiar in the men who live there. what composer not was inspired again and again to bring your music to the beautiful waterfall of the terraces! Everything there is reflected in the songs of singer-songwriter Polo Montanez or Fernando Borrego Linares, his real name.