Pablo Milanés, hospitalized in Madrid, suspends his next concerts

The Cuban singer-songwriter Paul Milanes He is hospitalized in Madrid and has suspended the next concerts he had planned, including a performance tomorrow Sunday in Pamplona, ​​as reported by his artistic office this Saturday. Milanés, whose situation is “stable”, is being treated in hospital of “the effects of a series of recurrent infections that in the last three months have been affecting his state of health,” according to a statement.

“This clinical situation”, adds the note, “is secondary to an oncohematological disease that he has suffered for several years and which required him to settle in Madrid” at the end of 2017 to receive treatment. Therefore, “at the moment it has been necessary to cancel the planned concerts in the coming weeks and suspend all his artistic activity while this circumstance lasts ”, it is indicated.

The author of topics like To live either Yolanda was scheduled to perform tomorrow in Pamplona and, according to its official website, on November 30 in Mexico City and December 5 in Santo Domingo.

Pablo Milanés already had to cancel last September the concert he had planned in the Dominican capital, which was postponed for December.

Born on February 24, 1943 in Bayamo (Cuba), Milanés’ family moved to Havana in the 1950s, at a time of great ebullience and brilliance of Cuban music, so that he could study music at the conservatory. Throughout his career, Milanés has recorded dozens of albums, and set poets such as Cesar Vallejo, Nicolás Guillen and José Martí to music.

In 1985, Joan Manuel Serrat, Ana Belén, Luis Eduardo Aute, Silvio Rodríguez and others paid tribute to him on the album Dear pablointerpreting with him his most emblematic songs.