2023-12-21 17:49:37
Guatemalan singer Ricardo Arjona will not continue with the concert tour he has been doing due to back problems, which will force him to undergo surgery, he confirmed to EFE the team of the successful Latin performer.
“Ricardo Arjona is not retiring,” The Guatemalan’s team clarified emphatically, in response to the confusion caused by a publication that the artist made on his social networks when closing his business in Chile. Black and White Tour.
“There is no retreat to speak of. We just finished a tour “very long and Ricardo has some health problems (not serious) in his back that need rest,” the team explained in a written statement sent to EFE and with which they deny the rumors regarding a definitive goodbye from the stage.
The Guatemalan started the tour Black and White in 2022 in Europe, from where it continued through the United States and Latin America, and then continued this year with a second leg that culminated with presentations on December 9 and 10 in Santiago de Chile, which were the closing of a tour of 159 concerts .
According to Billboard Boxscore, As of mid-2023, Arjona’s tours had grossed a total of US$154.6 million and sold two million tickets, numbers that place him as the tenth most lucrative Latin artist to tour of all time.
At the conclusion of the last of the two recitals in Chile, Arjona, 59, published a long statement on Instagram in which he announced that he was stopping his tour, in view of the back problems that afflicted him and that required an upcoming surgical intervention.
“I will have to disappear to invent a reason that is bigger than this. If I don’t find it, I prefer not to return,” he wrote on the social network, with a touch of mystery that triggered the fears of his thousands of followers.
In the more than 13 thousand comments on the publication, emotional thanks and pleas are mixed so that he does not abandon music.
From the artist’s offices in Miami, however, they assure that pauses, some of them long, are part of a musician’s career: “It’s something he normally does.”
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A review of his discography and tours shows that between project and project Arjona, with more than 30 years of experience and author of countless very popular ballads in Latin America, has taken two or three years, as happened between the publication of Nocturnal animal (1992) e stories (1994).
The tour Black and Whiteon the occasion of their albums Blanco (2020) y Negro (2021), had to be postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Spinal injections to keep your commitments
Last September, Arjona’s team announced that “a medical crisis” prevented the performer from being able to fulfill the final dates of the ‘Blanco y Negro’ tour, specifically with the recitals in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia.
“Ricardo Arjona underwent surgery with infiltrations in his spine to try to make his commitment possible, but the results were not sufficient so he will need a few more weeks of recovery,” his team explained in a statement.
In the following two months, the singer-songwriter received “six spinal infiltrations” (epidural injections) that allowed him to remain standing during concerts and, in this way, postpone an inevitable surgery in order to fulfill his pending commitments.
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But following this month’s recitals at the Bicentenario La Florida stadium in Santiago, the winner of a Grammy and a lifetime achievement award Billboard Latino, indicated that he will no longer be able to continue with the tour.
“Life and people have been immensely generous with this Guatemalan from the neighborhood, a public school teacher, who by playing the guitar, adding a few words and trying a melody, achieved a miracle that he never suspected,” he said gratefully.
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