“I go around the world looking for locomías”.
Such a striking chain of events is typical of Font’s life.įont joined EL PAÍS for an interview in Barcelona in the company of his husband, Harold, a 24-year-old Cuban who he married almost five years ago. When he was released in 2015, he moved to Cuba, married his mother-in-law (“so she could get her papers”) and stayed there for six years. It was an injustice.” Font spent three months in prison and was rewarded for good behavior: he enjoyed his freedom during the day but had to spend each night in a Barcelona detention center. I am repeating the same thing that everyone in prison says, but in my case it’s true. They also found bottles of poppers, but the substance had evaporated, so Font could not be charged for their possession. Authorities had found ecstasy pills in his house. He had it done right after he got out of jail, after he was sentenced in 2012 to three years in prison for drug trafficking. The creator of Locomía, Xavier Font, sports an ethnic-themed tattoo that covers his bald head. And it has its own particularities: handheld fans, pointed shoes, songs that became hits in Spain and Latin America, and jail. It has all the elements of a familiar story: sex, betrayal, drugs, fights, death, success and a descent into hell.
