the veteran Puerto Rican salsa player Ismael Miranda was transferred again to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a St. John’s hospital, because his oxygenation and arterial gases “began to change,” as a result of a stroke he suffered two weeks ago.
This was reported this Saturday by the musician’s relatives in a statement on the artist’s Instagram page, in which they indicate that after Miranda “He had submitted an improvement and was moved to regular quarter”, Suffered these setbacks yesterday, Friday 5 February, returning to the ICU “in order to provide him with the necessary care”.
“At this time, as a family, we ask all of you to continue to pray for Ishmael’s health and to ask God to give the necessary wisdom to the doctors so that give it the treatment it needs for its rapid improvement and be able to get out of the hospital, to be able to have him at home and to be able to enjoy with family, friends and the public who love him so much, ”the Miranda Battle family expressed.
THEY SUSPEND THEIR VIRTUAL CONCERT
Similarly, they have pointed out that the virtual concert of the salsero scheduled for this Saturday, on the platform of PassLine, “will be suspended until our dear Ismael is recovered. ”Ticket returns will be refunded directly from the PassLine page, the family said.
A week ago, “The Beautiful Boy of the Sauce “ he underwent surgery due to a stroke, which is why he was admitted to a hospital. At the age of 70, he underwent surgery on January 23 on the advice of his doctor after suffering complications in the cerebellum.
The artist had been hospitalized since January 22 due to dizziness that led to the decision to keep him under observation. Doctors, after undergoing several tests, confirmed that the singer suffered a stroke.
AN EXPONENT OF THE SAUCE
In 2019, the singer Ismael Miranda to celebrate his 53 years in the world of music. In his career he has been part of the Sextet Pipo and his Combo, and the group of Andy Harlow and his Sextet.
He made his first record with Joey Pastrana entitled “Let ‘s Ball” in 1967. In this same is where a teenager Miranda scored his first radio hit with “Rumbón melón”.
With the good impression caused by his performances with Andy Harlow, his brother, Larry, decided to recruit for his orchestra. Convinced of the young singer’s potential, in 1968, Larry released a new production entitled “Harlow Orchestra presents Ismael Miranda”, followed by recordings “Electric”, “Tribute to Arsenio Rodríguez”, “Harlow’s Harem” “,” Break through “and” Opportunity “.
At the age of 19 he joined the Fania All-Stars, Becoming the youngest singer in this group, earning the nickname “The Beautiful Child of the Salsa“. In full expansion of the sauce, Miranda it burst in with spectacular force in 1973 when launching the production “This is how a sound is composed”.
Success would later accompany it with topics like “The empty bed”, “The broken glass”, “Borinquen has montuno”, “Like my town” and “The forty”. The composition also recorded hits such as “Senyor serè”, “Obrin pas”, “Así se compone un son”, “Lupe, Lupe” and “Pa ‘brau jo”, the latter popularized by the Cuban sonero Just Betancourt.
In the decade of 1980 it recorded several productions with his independent record seal and in 1986 its recording “Verses of our cultura”, next to the cantautor Jose Nogueras, was one of the great successes of the Christmas season.
In 1988 he announced his intention to withdraw from the entertainment world, but this idea never came to fruition. Entering the 1990s, Ismael Miranda record with his own record label, IM Records, and with the company RMM. And at the end of the decade he joined Andy Montañez in three boleros record projects that won him popular support. (EFE)
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