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The media siege and the treatment that certain entertainment press made of his case led him to distance himself from public life. “It’s very curious, because he was suffering a lot and I didn’t realize it,” Pedro tells us. “I remember very clearly the distressing phobias he had. Everything made me panic. I have no idea if those visceral symptoms were due to my syndrome, or if they were a product of the shock of the devastating diagnosis I was given when I had just turned 42.”
One of Pedro’s last public appearances in October 2014, at the ‘When you think regarding returning’ event.
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But not everything has been bad for him during this time, as he claims that he has learned to contemplate and enjoy life “without hypochondria or paranoia.” “Look, I am much more limited than before but I am not changing for the Pedro of the last decade. The peace that I have achieved canceled all my nostalgia. And although I can’t do as many poses as before, or drive or play the piano, I’m no longer skeletal,” he says.
Cynthia, his wife, recently said that he maintains a very close relationship with his three children and that he often receives visits from his usual friends at home. And Patricio, his brother, has commented that he sees him happy and emotionally well. “My responsibility as a father was an armor so that this ordeal affected me as little as possible,” reveals the musician.
POINT OF VIEW
For several years, PSV was a columnist for this magazine. “In Somos I learned to have texts produced for you. Just like when I was 17 I learned to have your music produced. Rafaella León filtered me and fixed everything,” she recalls. Despite the difficulties he has writing, the Peruvian singer-songwriter most listened to on Spotify – according to the music platform, he has 685 thousand monthly listeners – has continued to share his reflections on different topics through extensive texts on his social networks.
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Some of his posts have generated controversy among the virtual community, but it is something he does not care regarding. “Something very strange regarding me is that trolls don’t bother me at all. Perhaps because they are always a respectable and microscopic minority. I never answer them. But I despair that other public figures do. So that? I mean. You should never advertise to a troll. “That’s exactly what they’re looking for,” he says when we ask him regarding the “hate” that is sometimes thrown at him on the Internet.
Peter Suarez-Vertiz, Christian Meier and Arthur Pomar Jr. formed in 1985 the group Arena Hash. (Photo: Victor Guitar).
He says that politics was not a topic that he followed with special interest, but that everything changed with the appearance on the scene of former president Pedro Castillo. “Whenever he wrote regarding it, it was to congratulate a good action from the left, center or right. But in 2021, a candidate came out to say, literally, that this was an election between the poor once morest the rich. So I stood in favor of the truth, and subtly published several posts,” explains the national musician. “Although this guy is already in prison, the gangrene of hate continues to spread everywhere, and that really makes me very sad because I love my country,” he adds.
Regarding music, an issue that causes concern is the emergence of artificial intelligence. “Now you go to any studio in the world, even Abbey Road, and the sound engineer greets you with a mouse in his hand,” he notes. However, he confesses that he had to put aside his reservations when they proposed cloning his voice to create the song ‘Amor yo te perdido la fe’, a song in which he manages to “sing” thanks to the use of AI. “A software used all my songs from all my albums and built my voice to perfection. “I am very grateful because I have been able to make my followers happy,” concludes Pedro, a man whose voice refuses to fade away. //
Besides…
The book
‘Yo, Pedro’ (Planeta) is the personal testimony of the Peruvian singer-songwriter Pedro Suárez-Vértiz, who goes through the different stages of his life, from his childhood to his fatherhood, from his successes in music to his encounter with writing. This commemorative edition also has a prologue by journalist and writer Jaime Bayly.
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