Paying Tribute To The Global Pop Influence Of the Beatles And Supporting Migrant Agricultural Workers
As A Band Comprised of Immigrant Dreamers And the First Generation Children Of Immigrants, The Classic Song Has Been A Long-Time Staple Of The Critically Acclaimed Band's Live Set - As An Example Of Their Distinctive Cross-Cultural Fusion, Respect For Those That Toil To Bring Food To Our Tables, And An Emotional Connection To John Lennon's Own Fight Against Deportation.
Following A First Look For Latino Leaders & First Lady Michelle Obama At The Recent LULAC Unity Luncheon in New York City, The Young Bilingual GRAMMY Winners From Los Angeles Unveil The Bright in Style, but Serious in Message Video.
La Santa Cecilia's 'Strawberry Fields Forever' commences with the celestial pluck of a jarocho diatonic harp, picks up speed with a vaguely samba beat, then adds a psychedelic norteño accordion line that in context is as weirdly groovy as John Lennon's facial hair."- Los Angeles Times
"LA Santa Cecilia has Mexicanized the Beatles psychedelic classic with norteño and son jarocho flourishes ...'We started traveling through California, through Bakersfield, Fresno, Salinas, all those places where you see the migrant workers and the strawberry fields, and we felt a crazy connection that turned the song into another meaning,' Ms. Hernández explained. 'You pass through so many places, and you see the land being worked. So now, we just present the song and say it reminds us of all the hardworking people who are out there, cultivating your strawberry fields forever. Just don't forget who they are and where they come from."- NY TIMES
"****/FOUR STARS - Editor's Choice: Hot on the heels of their Grammy-winning breakthrough album Treinta Días, Los Angeles' quartet La Santa Cecilia follow up with Someday New.... raw, primal, infectious ...La Marisoul delivers transcendent vocal[s]....On their reading of the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever," a lilting requiento and percussion intro support La Marisoul's smoky croon, but a funky Caribbean groove replaces it and it transforms into a psychedelic cumbia. The album closer is the original version of "ICE El Hielo" a song about deportation. It connects to the Beatles' tune, in that John Lennon fought deportation from the U.S. himself. He would have understood better than most Anglos"- ALL MUSIC
"La Santa Cecilia Wows LULAC, First Lady Michelle Obama and Jennifer Lopez with a Multicultural Spin on The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields' Inspired by Migrant Workers 'I don't think you can better a Beatles song; they are all amazing," said lead singer Marisol "La Marisoul" Hernandez of the Grammy-winning band La Santa Cecilia. Yet somehow, La Santa Cecilia has managed to do just that, by highlighting the tireless efforts of migrant workers who tend to our very own 'Strawberry Fields' in the United States" - Latin Post
"this dynamic Latin rock band embodies Los Angeles' vibrant diversity. As does La Santa Cecilia's music, a freewheeling mix of cumbia, jazz, mariachi, soul, rock en español ...and, on the group's new album, "Someday New," the most seductive cover of "Strawberry Fields Forever" you could imagine"- Boston Globe
