Ron Mulata, an identity inspiration and Cuban culture.

Fernando Ortiz in his book “La música afrocubana” (Afrocuban music) exposes that… “Another gift from Cuba to the world has been and is its popular music. Combination of black and white people; Mulatto product. And this last one is the more genuine from Cuba because, while the tobacco and the way to smoke it are not privative of the natives, those mulattas musics, that live in Cuba like the real palms, are exclusive creations of the genius of the people” – but a little ahead he mentions “afrocuban music is fire, happiness and smoke; it is syrup, sandunga and lightening; as a sonorous rum” – end of citations -. Mulata contains the fire, the happiness, the mysticism of its race, sandunga like the rum that drinks by the ear and flavor when combining music and Cuban rum that equals and join the people and in the senses dynamize the life, that is the main characteristic of our brand. – Another important citation of our Fernando Ortiz who allowed an inspiration for the creation of Mulata like part of the national identity “But is not less doubtless that the more representative music of Cuba, that has always given world-wide resonance, is it that one that fused with torrents of africania, is this crucible criollo (creole) put to the tropical fire; product of a transcultural blanquinegra (white/black) – citation – “Tickle to the white guitar, tearing its guts over the entrails opened between its hips; caresses to the black drum and I handle his hot skin. Mestizo combination, that is, Mulata music. – He also says in another one of loquacious citations “Or we will say Mulata without error, neither encomio nor less price, because the mulata-ness or metizo-ness is not an insubstantial hybridism nor eclecticism, nor discoloration, but simply a vital and fertile reality, fruit generated by copula of pigmentations and cultures, new substance, new color, an alquitarado product of the transcultural.”

In the Cuban fields where abounded trapiches and there were hundreds of dowries of slaves of men and women, the races were mixing by violent actions of the masters that abuse of their slaves and later in the different independences wars they went getting the freedom and the mixing continued extending to the present time. The Mulata and the Cuban rum arise in the same period of social development, the slavery, they are developed and accentuated in the independence stage and are associate to the identity and the sincretismo of the Cuban.

These definitions _ – new substance, new color, an alquitarado product of the transculturalization – _ and the majority presence of mixture of European and African races in our society, the necessity to create a brand to represent another of the emblematic products of our country, the Cuban rum, was the cause of which a group of creators also with afrocubana blood gave another gift from Cuba to the world, our Ron Mulata. In this brand the main bases take shelter of the production technology of a rum: the mixtures, the time, the selection of the raw materials that compose it and their exposition to the tropical sun of the greater of the Antilles, make it a genuine Cuban product.

“Cuba sabe que es Mulata” (Cuba knows it’s Mulata) Nicolás Guillen (Complete works of Nicolás Guillen, extracted from “Trópico” )