In the first years of this century, the Galician historian Nancy Pérez traveled to Cuba, with another co-worker, to digitize the archives of the Galician diaspora associations on the Caribbean island, as part of a program of the Consello da Cultura Galega. Specialized in emigration and born in the early 1970s in Germany, where her parents worked, from the interior of the province of A Coruña, she was doing her doctoral thesis on the Galician colony in the United States. But it was that tedious work of hers in Havana to ensure that the memory of the Galician exodus to America would not be lost that gave a complete and radical turn to her life, when Pablo Milanés burst into it.
Among the historian's friends, it is said that they met in a bar in Havana, on the first of at least two trips she made to Cuba as part of that digitization program, at a time when she also made some trips to United States for the thesis. Only the most intimate were aware of the existence of the romance, unknown for example by his colleagues in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), until it was learned that he had left his job at the Consello da Cultura and the investigation to settle in Cuba with his new and famous partner.
The one who was the fifth wife of Milanés always stood out for her inner and outer beauty and for the good feelings she transmitted, according to her colleagues at USC. She donated a kidney to the singer when she had a failure. The couple, who recently lived in Madrid, had twin children, Pablo and Rosa. Milanés became closely linked to Galicia, where he performed on numerous occasions and established relationships with local musicians, while Nancy Pérez was taking more and more responsibility for managing her husband's activities.
