Nube de Hielo translated as "Ice Cloud" is a traditional melody created by the Canarian composer Benito Cabrera. The song appeared for the first time published on the album «Notas de Viaje» in 1998,[1] and since then it has been covered many times. The Canarians show a great of affection for this song, being deeply rooted in the Canary Islands.
Nube de Hielo is an instrumental melody that has no lyrics really. Although the composer Andrés Molina wrote a letter and Chago Melián is the singer who has sung it more frequently. According to the own Benito Cabrera, the song is inspired by the Teide, especially in the sound of the silence that he found in this place.[2]
The song expresses feelings of isolation, melancholy and nostalgia present in the hearts of the Canaries, which arose after decades of emigration to America, in addition to the sentimentality carried by the peninsulars who emigrated to the islands centuries ago, all of this helping to generate a atmosphere that, as in the case of Portuguese or Galician folklore, impregnated with saudade, constitutes a perceptible background emotionality in Canarian society in very varied ways.
Nube de Hielo was part of the Teide National Park declaration file as a World Heritage Site in 2007.[3]
- ^ "Benito Cabrera – Notas de Viaje". Retrieved 2022-11-24.
- ^ "Benito Cabrera: "Hay tantos Teide como estados de ánimo"". Archived from the original on 2016-07-18. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ^ "Universidad de La Laguna. Diploma de Arte y Creatividad" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-02-22.