Migrant workers inspire Santa Cecilia’s cover of ‘Strawberry Fields’

La Santa Cecilia is a Mexican-American band based in Los Angeles, California who play a blend of many forms of music. (Facebook)

But it wasn’t just the sounds that changed, the biggest change features the illustrations that show the song’s connection with migrant workers in the U.S.

The video released Monday shows the process of growing strawberries — from images of strawberries decorating a cake to a worker picking them in the fields and finally coming full circle to the migrant’s home.

In an interview this summer at the Grammy Museum, the Mexican-American group discussed how driving through Central California inspired them to put their spin on the Beatles’ 1967 hit.

“One day we started leaving L.A. to play in Bakersfield and we saw the fruit fields and the strawberry fields and listening to the song on my iPod,” said lead singer Marisol Hernandez. “I thought, man, it connected. Seeing all these migrant workers, working for hours strawberry fields forever and it was just like, ‘woah!,’ when you just connect a lyric.”

The group won for best Latin rock or alternative at this year’s Grammy’s for the recording of their song “El Hielo” (The ICE), which was accompanied with music video that went viral.

The video offered a sympathetic look into the lives of Latino immigrants living in fear of deportation.

They dedicated their win to “the more than 11 million undocumented people that live and work really hard in this country, and that still need to lead a more dignified life.”

La Santa Cecilia draws from the sounds of Pan-American rhythms like cumbia, bossa nova, rumba, bolero, tango, jazz, rock and klezmer music.

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