Tania León, Composer: “I Have Lived in Another Galaxy. My Grandparents Made Me Believe that Nothing Was Impossible”

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At 82 years of age, Tania León is alive. Many memories show that she has lived an intense life, first in her native Cuba, and then in her host country, the United States, where she arrived with 24 years of age thanks to the lottery. She was one of the approximately 300,000 Cubans who left as refugees in the so-called Freedom Flights, a program that worked between 1965 and 1973. She had no intention of emigrating, just to study in Paris. Nor did …