A powerful message from the staff of the Guatemalan singer-songwriter, who refuses to retire from music

Guatemalan singer Ricardo Arjona will not continue the concert tour due to back problems, which he confirmed will require surgery. EFE A group of successful Latin artists.

“Ricardo Arjona is not retiring” The Guatemalan team made the clarification in response to the confusion caused by the artist’s publication on his social networks while closing his business in Chile. Black and white tour.

“There is no retreat to speak of. We finished a Tour “Too long and Riccardo has some health issues (not serious) with his back which requires rest,” the team explained in a written statement sent out. EFE And they deny rumors of a definitive farewell from the stage.

Started tour of Guatemala Black and white In Europe in 2022, it continued through the United States and Latin America, then continued this year with a second leg, which concluded with presentations in Santiago, Chile on December 9 and 10, completing a tour of 159 concerts. .

According to Billboard Boxscore, As of mid-2023, Arjona’s tours have grossed a total of US$154.6 million and sold two million tickets, making her the tenth-highest-grossing Latin artist on tour of all time.

At the end of two recitals in Chile, Arjona, 59, posted a lengthy statement on Instagram in which she announced she was calling off her tour. .

“I have to disappear to find a reason bigger than this. If I don’t find it, I won’t come back,” he wrote on the social network, with a touch of mystery that inspired the fear of his thousands of followers.

More than 13,000 comments on the post have mixed emotional thanks and pleas for him not to give up music.

However, from the artist’s offices in Miami, they assure that pauses, some of them long, are part of a musician’s life: “It’s something he does regularly.”

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A review of his discography and tours shows that Arjona, with more than 30 years of experience and the author of countless of the most popular ballads in Latin America, takes two or three years between project and project, as well as between release. Nocturnal animal (1992) and Stories (1994)

tourism Black and whiteOn the occasion of their albums White (2020) and Black (2021), postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Spinal injection to sustain your duties

Last September, Arjona’s team announced that a “medical crisis” prevented the artist from fulfilling the final dates of the ‘Blanco y Negro’ tour, specifically the concerts in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia.

“Ricardo Arjona underwent spinal surgery to try to make his commitment possible, but the results were not good enough, so he will need a few more weeks of recovery,” his team explained in a statement.

Over the next two months, the singer-songwriter received “six spinal injections” (epidural injections), which allowed him to stand during concerts and postpone the inevitable surgery to fulfill his pending commitments.

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But after this month’s concerts at the Bicentenario La Florida Stadium in Santiago, the Grammy and Lifetime Achievement Award winner advertisement board Latin indicated that he could no longer continue Tour.

“Life and people are so generous to this Guatemalan from the neighborhood, a public school teacher, who plays the guitar, adds a few words, tries a melody, and achieves a miracle he never suspected,” he said gratefully.