Bogota - Cuban singer-songwriter, Pablo Milanes, founder of the Nueva Trova Movement, will perform today in Colombia to pay tribute to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, during the festival dedicated to the famous writer, coordinators confirmed.

Gabo came to my house in Havana, he liked to investigate my work, but much more than that, he loved to ask about what I composed and played my friends, the things I had not heard and ended fascinating him, and a close friendship was born, more musical than literary, the singer said.

In the concert organized in Medellin, as part of the festival that bears his name, I will launch an album he could not hear, entitled "Renacimiento," with songs also influenced by Baroque and mixed with Cuban rhythms, the singer said in statements posted by El Colombiano website.

According to the author of the emblematic song "Yolanda" and "El breve espacio en que no estas," the recent album includes songs in the style of changui, danzon, conga, jazz and son, maximum expression of the popular music in the island.

Milanes' free performance in the Antioquia capital will be sponsored by the New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation, founded by Garcia Marquez, who was recognized in life with the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Among his best known texts are "Hundred Years of Solitude," "Love in the Time of Cholera" -described by Gabo as his most human novel-, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" and "Of Love and Other Demons."