Me Hace Daño Verte (It Hurts Me to See You) is another song my kids recommended to me. It didn’t take me much time to decide to add this spectacular Salsa song to the Music Library Project. Cuban singer – songwriter Freddy Ernesto Gamboa Pérez is better known as Fresto. After crying and missing the person he loved, Fresto decided to fill himself with courage and, in the middle of his “tusa” (extreme sadness for a lost love), he composed Me Hace Daño Verte (It Hurts Me to See You); the song that went viral and has become today’s salsa hymn. It is part of his first album called ‘Trovando el son‘.
A crude English translation of the opening stanzas of Me Hace Daño Verte (It Hurts Me to See You):
It hurts me to see you
I would like you to leave
I would give everything to have the power
that you disappeared
I try to forget you
either way
But it’s getting impossible for me
if you go out anywhere
If you go out wherever I’m walking
and a couple who are kissing
In the rainbow with which you make up
if you’re not crying
“The lyrics of the song were born out of the purest spite. The person who inspired the song, I will never say the name, I’ll take it to the grave, but it really was such a situation. One love, that we all go through in our lives and stormy at times. I saw her everywhere and one day I went out with a lot of anger, and I made the song for her and here it is. It came out just the way it came out and that’s how it stayed, because it has become a hymn for many for what I consider is no longer mine, it belongs to the entire public”, explained the Cuban.
Although Me Hace Daño Verte (It Hurts Me to See You) was created three years ago, only now is it being played in all corners of the world, where they sing and dance to it non-stop. It is said it became the most popular Salsa song in 2022. Now Fresto lives with his wife and children in Cuenca, Ecuador. When interviewed on the Pereira Diversa program, he said that he began his path in music at the age of 10 and made his debut as a composer at the age of 16. The grandson of a piano teacher, Fresto learned about the flute, piano, percussion, and guitar. “My other vocation is to teach the little ones” he comments when posting about his participation in musicals.
References:
1. Quien es Fresto? – Que Noticias
2. Fresto y la historia detrás de su tema viral ‘Me hace daño verte’ – El Universal
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