Armando Manzanero is dead, victim of the coronavirus | …

Armando Manzanero died this Monday, December 28. Icon of romantic music and boleros, he had contracted the coronavirus and was hospitalized. He was 85 years old.

The famous Mexican artist began to feel ill in mid-December, when he was treated by a medical team at his home. With symptoms persisting and showing no signs of improvement, Manzanero underwent a test and was diagnosed with coronavirus, for which it was decided to admit him on Thursday 17 in a hospital in Mexico City.

“Master Armando Manzanero has tested positive for covid-19 and is being treated according to established medical protocols,” the Society of Composers and Authors of Mexico said in a statement at the time.

After rumors of the artist’s death were reported, his daughter, Martha Manzanero Arjona, denied the news, saying her father was “responding well to the treatment”. However, a few days later, Manzanero had to be intubated due to complications related to his condition.

Although Manzanero’s lungs are in good condition, doctors have detected complications in his kidneys. Finally, the author of “We are boyfriends” or “This afternoon I saw rain” suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest.

“I must regret a lot, because they inform me of the death of Don Armando Manzanero,” Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told a press conference.

On social media, users and representatives of culture across the continent have expressed their regret for the death of the singer-songwriter.

Manzanero was born on December 7, 1935 in the town of Mérida, Yucatán, and ventured into music at the age of 8. He began his professional career as a professional pianist in the early 1950s and later became director of the Mexican branch of the CBS record company.

Over the course of his career, he has composed over 400 songs, released dozens of albums and recorded films. As a producer, one of his most notable works was Romance, the bolero album that Luis Miguel released in 1991 and has hits such as “I don’t know you” and “I miss you”.

In 2010 he received the Latin Recording Academy Award for Musical Excellence and in 2014 he became the first Mexican to receive an honorary Grammy Award for his career.