La Santa Cecilia’s Music Video for “El Hielo (ICE)”

 

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You might not suspect from its lovely, breathy lead vocal and deceptively languid, vaguely bossa nova lilt that La Santa Cecilia’s latest single, “El Hielo” (ICE) is actually a fiery protest anthem.

But the Spanish-language track’s main mission is to express empathy for Latin American immigrants, including those who were brought as children by their parents to the United States and must live a shadowy existence as second-class citizens in constant fear of deportation.

An English translation of the lyrics can be found here.

This article was taken from the LA Times