The Cuban troubadour Pablo Milanés was hospitalized in Madrid for infections; is stable

the cuban singer Pablo Milanes79 years old, author of songs like I don’t ask you o YolandaHe was hospitalized in Madrid for infections and is “stable,” his artistic office reported early this Saturday.

Milanés “is currently hospitalized, in a stable situation, being treated for the effects of a series of recurring infections that in recent months have been affecting his state of health,” his agents reported in a statement released on the social networks of the singer after midnight on Friday.

The founder of the Nueva Trova Cubana together with silvio rodriguez and Noel Nola, has suffered “for several years” from an “oncohematological disease” that forced him to settle in Madrid at the end of 2017 “to receive non-existent treatment in his country,” the statement said.

The Cuban musician canceled his last concerts in Spain or the Dominican Republic and his artistic activity will be suspended “while this circumstance lasts,” the text added.

Born on February 24, 1943 in Bayamo (east), Milanés’s family moved to Havana in the 1950s, at a time of great boiling and brilliance of Cuban music, so that he could study music at the conservatory.

Throughout his career, Milanés has recorded dozens of albums, and has musicalized poets such as Cesar Vallejo, Nicolás Guillen and José Martí.

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