 Rigger's Cuban Family Rigger puts a sailmaker's whipping
Rigger is presently working in his hometown Stockholm as a lighting technician, but looking forward to retirement. His favourite pastime is music, and he is delving deeply into a Cuban fad. Hence, he travels extensively to Cuba where he intends to live after retirement. He has lots of friends in Santiago de Cuba, many of them musicians, but they seem to be going the other way, so few may remain when he finally can go to rest in Santiago. So far, Rigger has seen about fifteen friends leave the island, some of them with his practical support. The number is growing, may the last one switch off the light... Rigger plays a few instruments, not all of them well, but he is eager to learn. Newly taken up instruments include Cuban tres and Mexican guitarrón. His main instrument is the quena, an indigenous notched flute from the Andean highlands. A rare recording of Rigger playing Rigger is presently a lighting technician but has tried many other professions, among them rigger, which is the reason for the choice of nick. Rigger knows his ropes and is very proud of his fibre to wire rope splices. He has also been a photographer for many years, and after that lived a few years playing music in various South American bands around Europe, whereafter he came back and worked about fifteen years as a bus driver. He has also trained guide dogs for the blind, which is one of the occupations that he liked most. His alternative moniker, cocuyo, is linked to his present profession (cocuyo=firefly). Rigger is an eternal language student, presently working hard to improve his Spanish (his wife claims that it is rather decay than improvement) by learning to speak the vernacular of Santiago de Cuba. He also knows a bit French, German and Dutch. Of course the compulsory channel language English is included as well as his native Swedish. Then there are some more obscure languages from which he has picked up a bit, as Irish, Quechua, Bahasa Indonesia and Finnish. Rigger is the proud father of LoneTech, who hosts a website where some of Rigger's friends can be seen:
Some of those girls now have left Cuba. |
