{"id":66374,"date":"2026-07-25T06:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66374"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:07:31","slug":"unha-soa-patria-a-bilingual-song-for-galicia-for-spain-and-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/25\/unha-soa-patria-a-bilingual-song-for-galicia-for-spain-and-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"'Unha soa Patria', a bilingual song for Galicia, for Spain and for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is July 25th, a date on which we celebrate the feast of Saint James the Apostle, who is the patron saint of Galicia and the patron saint of Spain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/25\/galicians-that-is-to-say-spaniards-a-manifesto-for-july-25-the-day-of-the-patron-saint-of-spain\/\">Galicians, that is to say, Spaniards: a manifesto for July 25, the day of the patron saint of Spain<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/07\/25\/this-is-how-saint-james-the-greater-the-son-of-thunder-became-the-patron-saint-of-spain\/\">This is how Saint James the Greater, the 'Son of Thunder', became the patron saint of Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>For years, <strong>separatism has been trying to appropriate this date to break the unity of Spain and divide Galicians<\/strong>, who are children of a land that has been part of Spain since its very foundation, more than half a millennium ago. In other years I have celebrated this date with arguments, but this time I want to do so with <strong>a song in our two languages, Spanish and Galician<\/strong>, two languages \u200b\u200bthat have been spoken in Galicia since the Middle Ages, that is, since Vulgar Latin gave way to the Romance languages \u200b\u200bthat we speak today in this corner of Spain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I've been working on the music and lyrics for this song for weeks<\/strong>. It was generated with artificial intelligence and uses a traditional Galician musical style, which I've been very fond of for decades. With this song, I want to reaffirm <strong>Galicia's belonging to Spain, linguistic freedom, and freedom of expression and thought<\/strong> \u2014rights that are being threatened by a separatism that seeks to impose its hatred of Spain and freedom on all Galicians. <strong>I'll leave you with the song, titled \"Unha soa Patria\" (One Homeland). I hope you like it<\/strong> (the video has English subtitles; you can activate them in the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Unha soa Patria\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DD6J26UA61o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ESOr52WdLg5a_FE8JcBTdO5FSVo3db6S\/view\" target=\"_blank\">You can download the song in MP3 format by clicking here<\/a> (right-click and \"Download as...\" if you are using a computer).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The song lyrics alternate between verses in Spanish and Galician.<\/strong> You can read them on <a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\/song\/210ffbe1-ad52-4994-8f4c-3b7ad81a42ae\" target=\"_blank\">my Suno.com account<\/a>. Here you can read the lyrics completely in Spanish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We grew up with two languages,<br \/>\nused in my home:<br \/>\nthe language of my land<br \/>\nand the voice of my homeland.<\/p>\n<p>I don't want borders<br \/>\nwithin my heart,<br \/>\nI want my children<br \/>\nto speak with rights.<\/p>\n<p>Let no one attack me<br \/>\nfor saying what I think,<br \/>\nfreedom is learned<br \/>\nby speaking with respect.<\/p>\n<p>Galicia is Spain,<br \/>\nthey go hand in hand,<br \/>\nfree and together<br \/>\nwe sing.<\/p>\n<p>Galicia is Spain,<br \/>\nsame destiny,<br \/>\none homeland,<br \/>\none same path.<\/p>\n<p>We have two languages<br \/>\nand neither of them<br \/>\nis less Spanish<br \/>\nnor less Galician.<\/p>\n<p>Let the family choose<br \/>\nthe voice of their choice,<br \/>\nlet the children grow up<br \/>\nwithout fear in school.<\/p>\n<p>I don't want trenches<br \/>\nor resentment in my town,<br \/>\nlet us live without quarrels<br \/>\nunder one sky.<\/p>\n<p>Let no one impose<br \/>\nsilence or ideas,<br \/>\nor sinister stars<br \/>\non the Galician flag.<\/p>\n<p>Galicia is Spain,<br \/>\nthey go hand in hand,<br \/>\nfree and together<br \/>\nwe sing.<\/p>\n<p>Galicia is Spain,<br \/>\nsame destiny,<br \/>\none homeland,<br \/>\none same path.<\/p>\n<p>Against the hatred born<br \/>\nof intolerance,<br \/>\nagainst the separatism<br \/>\nthat divides my home.<\/p>\n<p>I sing for my people<br \/>\nwithout harming my neighbors,<br \/>\nfor all of Spain,<br \/>\nfor a united country.<\/p>\n<p>Galicia is Spain,<br \/>\nthey go hand in hand,<br \/>\nfree and together<br \/>\nwe sing.<\/p>\n<p>Galicia is Spain,<br \/>\nsame destiny,<br \/>\none homeland,<br \/>\none same path.<\/p>\n<p>Galicia is Spain<br \/>\nthey do not separate.<br \/>\nWhen there is coexistence<br \/>\nthe homeland grows.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: OpenArt.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is July 25th, a date on which we celebrate the feast of Saint James the Apostle, who is the patron saint of Galicia and the patron saint of Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11348],"tags":[1805,22928,10998,11115,11462],"class_list":["post-66374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-galicia","tag-linguistic-freedom","tag-nationalism","tag-patriotism","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 00:43:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}