The official launch of the phonogram Con sentimiento cubano: Patria o Muerte, by the artist from the Caribbean nation residing in the United States, Ignacio Herrera, Nachito, will establish today a musical bridge between both nations.

The record production, which will be present on social networks and YouTube channels, includes nine versions of songs composed by Juan Sebastián Bach, Federico Chopin, Serguei Rachmaninov, Alejandro García Caturla, Ernesto Lecuona, Frank Fernández and Emiliano Salvador. Within the album, the Cuban artist is the author of the orchestrations and interpreter of the piano, and has the collaboration of the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, conducted by Enrique Pérez Mesa; the National Choir, and the Habana Jazz Social Club band.

At the age of 12, Ignacio Herrera received an invitation from the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba to perform as a solo pianist Concert No. 2 by the Russian composer Serguei Rachmaninoff, a classic work present in his repertoire.

Years later, he was influenced by his teacher Rubén González, who along with Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, and other musicians joined the Buena Vista Social Club and the Afro Cuban All Stars with singers such as Pío Leyva, Manuel Licea and Juan de Marcos. González, among others.

In 1990 Herrera concluded his academic musical studies and obtained his Bachelor of Music degree in the specialty of Piano at the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana.

During that decade he belonged as a pianist, arranger and musical director to various groups such as the orchestra of the Cabaret Tropicana show, the Bakuleye group, with whom he recorded the album Ula-Ula, and in 1997 he was part of the Cubanismo project.

Since 2002 he has lived in the North American state of Minnesota and has participated in proposals by the Minnesota Orchestra, The Wayzata Symphony, the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, Chippewa Valley Symphony and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Big Band.

The name of the album With Cuban Sentiment: Patria o Muerte, alludes to the phrase pronounced by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, during the burial of the victims of the terrorist act against the French steamship La Coubre, on March 5, 1960.