Fito Páez sits at Gershwin’s piano in Washington: ‘The US has reduced Latino culture to reggaeton’

It was a “memorable” afternoon for Argentinian singer-songwriter Fito Páez. He knelt before the handwritten score of a Mozart violin concerto and said, “If God exists, this is Him.” He shared his passion for writer Macedonio Fernández about whom he said, “Without him, Borges would not be the same.” And he folded his hands in a gesture of prayer when he saw treasures such as a first edition of Roberto Arlt’s El juguete Rabioso – Mad Toy, a third edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost, and a century-old map of the Argentine Republic, in which he looked for Rosario, the city where he was born 62 years ago.

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Fuente: El País