Dice Raphael that the memories of that December 17, 2024 in which a television recording ended up 10 days are “confusing.” “I remember wanting to speak and say something else; there I already knew that I had problems”He tells Efe, only four and a half months later and ready to recover his professional agenda.
“If I tell you (I didn’t get scared) I am lying, but if I tell you that I have been scared, then” either “then points out the 81 -year -old singer, for whom his liver transplant in 2003 was the authentic milestone in his medical and vital history.
Since then, he says Be “accustomed to face things from the beginning” And with that attitude he first arrived at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital and in October twelve later, where he came out with a diagnosis, a primary brain lymphoma, and a treatment that has led to Rajataba.
“I can’t play that I didn’t care (the diagnosis). It is another feeling, I accept what is happening to me, a ‘put remedy’. I am very thrown forward. (…) Doctors always say that I am a patient who puts a lot on their part“, he tells in an interview from his impressive Madrid house.
“I don’t think about death, but the day I arrive, I’m not going to welcome you”
In an outstanding place in the living room, a photograph with newly deceased Pope Francis, Which, he says, was to see him act at a concert when he was still archbishop of Buenos Aires. It is difficult not to take into account how radically different their evolutions have been in these weeks.
“I do not think about death, but the day I arrive, I’m not going to welcome you”is limited to saying on this point.
last week he surprised with the announcement that on June 15 he will resume his concert agenda with a show at the Roman Theater in Mérida. “I am very good, the proof is that in reality I have been very little in the hospital”stands out, after ensuring that he returns with the consent of the doctors and that “The transplant is like the first day.”
“I do not move if they do not like the issue, because this is very serious. This is not a drug or other kind of barbarity that you can cure it at your home with pills,” he insists, before recognizing that his family, to which he first dedicated his message of thanks, has asked him to take care of himself, but not to leave the music.
In that sense, he tells his plans to dosing: “I’m going to try now on to give a concert per week. What I don’t want is to hit meaningless tours. I’m going to go everywhere, but I’m going and turn to”reports, and adds that your future plans also include Latin America: “I want to be everywhere while God leaves me.”
He will only give up in Madrid, where he will offer three concerts between June 26 and June 29 in the same space where he debuted as Raphael and to which he returned after recovering from his liver transplantThe Teatro de la Zarzuela.
It will not be a farewell tour
Today they appear 17 Spanish cities on your tourincluding Seville (La Maestranza, September 13), San Sebastián (Kursaal, October 11), Valencia (Arena Roig, November 1), Zaragoza (Prince Felipe Pavilion, November 22) or Barcelona (Palau Sant Jordi, December 20), to mention some.
That nobody speaks, however, of a farewell tour, because that has not changed. “The day I have to go, I will leave, but I can’t do a farewell tour. What suffering would be!” exclaims, by contrasting his case with that of colleagues as José Luis Perales.
“They are my friends, I admire them very much, but who am I to comment? I can’t. Each one behaves in life as he is and how he wants and I, of my own will, I will never go“, he insists after getting a nomination of the Academy of Music for the best traditional pop album with ‘Yesterday … still’ (2024), in which he versioned classics of the French song.
His desire is that it is not that his last recording and return to the study at some point, while praising the behavior of the people before the very reciet total blackout left by Spain and Portugal without electrical energy.
“I am sure that none had an idea of what had happened. However, everyone behaved as it has to be already that makes me feel very good as Spanish,” Valuo Raphael values, that after so much vicissitude he only has one wish in mind right now: “Everything follows as it is”.
