Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, 77, is hospitalized in Madrid and has been delicate in recent months with various infections, due to his illness, a type of cancer – myelodysplastic syndrome -, which decreases his immune response, according to relatives. a 14ymedio. The artist, who suffers from an inflamed gallbladder and a kidney infection, has had to cancel his next concerts.
However, another close source reassures, “at the moment he is under control and we hope that he will be discharged soon.” It was to receive cancer treatment that Milanés moved to Spain five years ago, where he currently resides.
Milanés’ medical situation has forced him to cancel several concerts he had planned to offer in Spain and the Dominican Republic. “That has depressed him quite a bit,” says the same source, interviewed by this newspaper, “but now the important thing is that he achieves an improvement that allows him at least stability.”
The family announced that it will soon offer a press release on the musician’s official networks to “generate calm” about the artist’s hospital admission.
The family announced that they will soon offer a press release on the musician’s official networks to “generate calm” about the artist’s hospital admission
Milanés had to suspend a presentation in Santo Domingo on December 5, initially scheduled for September, and which also suffered a delay due to the singer-songwriter’s health.
“The local production, in full coincidence with the artist’s office, decided to cancel the date,” reported Alfonso Quiñones in the dominican newspaper Caribbean. The musician “had to be hospitalized in Spain,” added the journalist, who also warned about the shows that were suspended in the Spanish cities of Pamplona and Granada.
For his part, the Navarre Newspaper also realized of the cancellation of the concert in Pamplona, this November 13, and attributed it to an alleged “intestinal indisposition suffered recently and that has led the artist to rest for medical indications”.
Milanés sang for the last time in Cuba last June, in a concert not without controversy and tension. The massive presentation, with a strong police and State Security presence, finally took place at the Ciudad Deportiva Coliseum in Havana, after several protests for the location initially chosen by the cultural authorities, the National Theater of Cuba.
Much of the 2,000 capacities of this establishment were sold to “organizations”, which led to popular discontent and the transfer of the concert to the Coliseum, with some 15,000 seats. Although the concert took place normally and Milanés showed no signs of slowing down, many attendees agreed that the meeting had the tone of “a farewell”.
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