Ebblis Mai Valdivia, did not permanently leave Cuba with the intention of emigrating or looking for a better future, They accused El Boni of deserting his land and his public and prohibited him from returning to the island..
The hard moment he lived with his brother Kelly Valdivia when They were forced to make a living and start from scratch in another country, it was a topic of conversation in a recent interview for the podcast “Destiny Tolk”.
The Cuban singer said that after recording an album with his brother in the Dominican Republic, At that time they were the duo Boni and Kellythey were invited to open a concert in Panama for a charity event in which great music stars such as Shakira, Juan Luis Guerra, Rubén Blades, David Bisbal among others would be present.
However, denials immediately arose from a director of his company in Cuba: “They didn’t want us to go, For them it was ‘ideological diversionism’the typical subnormal of the company who creates obstacles, he told us, tell Juan Luis Guerra to come talk to us, crazy.”
“They told us no, and that if we did that event and did not return in the time they said we had betrayed and we were deserters”the singer continued.
Boni and Kelly decided to travel to Panama, they opened the concert, they shared with those renowned artists “and two days later when we were going to return, we could no longer return to Cuba, the airline had canceled our flight and we called the company and They told us that we were deserters that we had betrayed the public and all that amount of nonsense that doesn’t make any sense, they didn’t let us return and we had to start a life from scratch in the Dominican Republic.”
“I always say when you are prepared to stay in another country, leave your country, you prepare, you say goodbye to your mother, your family, we left thinking we were coming back (…) Our poor mother went every day to the Ministry of Culture to the Institute of Music, they bullied her, they treated her badly and they humiliated her and she did it every day and waited to see if they would take care of her,” confessed El Boni.
After five or six years working on music in the Dominican Republic and then in Spain, totally away from the Cuban public, they were able to return to the island, but It was very difficult to recover his career in Cubauntil they decide to move to Miami.
