From the intimate honesty of a man who grew up ‘where the palm tree grows’, to the roar of a stadium full of lights and young people… transcendent words know no borders. Martían thought, that legacy of struggle, humanism and authenticity, resonates once more where perhaps we did not expect it: in the voice of Dan Reynolds, lead singer of Imagine Dragons, reciting with near-confessional devotion the Versos Sencillos (Simple Verses).

It is no coincidence. It is not a superficial nod. When Reynolds chooses ‘I am a sincere man…’, he is touching a universal chord: that of the desire for authenticity in a world of noise. Martí wrote for America, but today his essence—that which speaks of freedom, integrity and the vital urgency to ‘cast the verses of the soul’—becomes a bridge between centuries, languages, and cultures.

There lies the proof: universality is not in fame, but in the enduring truth. An American rocker, at the peak of mass culture, selects these verses not as an exotic fragment, but as a mirror. Because Martí, ultimately, is not only of Cuba nor of the 19th century: he belongs to all who believe that sincerity can be a revolutionary act.

This moment leaves us with a profound media lesson: truly human ideas expand without permission. Martí said it: ‘Truth, once awakened, does not fall back asleep.’ And today, in a digital and global era, his truth awakens in an electric guitar, on a giant screen, in the voice of one who, from another language, recognises the spark of a genuine soul.