Why Juno Award-winning musician Alex Cuba loved this autobiographical novel by Paulo Coelho
CBC Radio | Posted: October 11, 2019 5:09 PM | Last Updated: July 20, 2020
This interview originally aired on Oct. 12, 2019.
Alex Cuba is a Cuban-born singer and musician based in British Columbia. He has twice won Juno Awards for world music album of the year and in 2019 released his seventh album, titled Sublime.
He is a huge reader and dropped by The Next Chapter to talk about reading Hippie by Paulo Coelho.
"The book I'm reading is Hippie by Paulo Coelho. It's about hitchhiking from Brazil to pretty much the whole entire world. Paulo Coelho, as a young man, decided to go on this journey.
"The book is just magical. Anything that Paulo writes is magical to read. I think he's one of my favourite authors for that reason. The way he plays with words sounds like music to me. It's so beautiful. It's a very inspiring book."
Alex Cuba's comments have been edited for length and clarity.