José Andrëa, former singer of Mägo de Oz, overcomes the serious operation: "I'm here, yes"

José Andrëa, photography in Madrid at the beginning of September Santi Burgos

"I am here, yes, more there than here, but I am here." José Andrëa's voice sounds tinny from the effects of anesthesia through the mobile phone. You only woken up a few minutes ago. He continues: “It has been a long operation, but I am fine. I just looked at my cell phone and I got it from messages ... I'll see it tomorrow because now I don't even know what I'm saying. I just want to say thank you very much to all the people who have supported me ”. The former singer of Mägo de Oz and currently like José Andrëa y Uróboros had entered a hospital in Madrid at eight in the morning to undergo an operation in which they had announced that he had "a 70% chance of going wrong." "What does it mean to go wrong?" Asked the musician. “Let him stay in the operating room. I'm sorry ”, they replied. They also recommended “that he leave his legal things fixed,just in case".

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• Spanish rock lives in suspense due to the serious operation faced by the singer José Andrëa, exMägo de Oz

Andrëa and the surgeons have seized on that 30% of hope and everything has turned out well.

The operation consisted of removing two severe hernias in the stomach.

A complicated surgery that had such a dire prognosis because of the patient's history.

In 2013 he was affected by necrotizing pancreatitis.

They removed part of the large intestine, the gallbladder, and three-quarters of the pancreas.

Today's has been the eighth operation since then.

Throughout the day, Sarah Ayuso, the singer's partner, has been at the hospital door glued to her mobile phone. The covid protocol has not allowed him access to the center. "At 12 in the morning they called me for the first time to tell me that everything was going well, but that they had detected more hernias and he was going to leave," says Ayuso. In the afternoon they informed him that it had been a complicated operation and that they preferred to wait for the patient to wake up. At 5:30 p.m. they finally contacted her to report that she had woken up and that she was in good condition. "We are all very happy," she says, relieved. The singer must stay a few days in the hospital. Tomorrow, when the surgeon comes to see him, they will know more information. The operation should have been carried out on September 9,But in the pre-test, the musician tested positive for covid and had to be delayed to today, Wednesday, September 22.

It all started at seven in the morning, when the musician published a picture of him in the hospital and a message: “Alea jacta est” (The die is cast). Immediately his account was filled with messages of encouragement: "Strength, José", "you can handle everything", "everything will be fine, José" or "with everything, José, let's go bastard." Comments from Spain and also from Mexico, Ecuador, Chile or Argentina.

The days before the intervention Andrëa spent them arranging papers and “making a will”. Always in the company of her two children, her mother and her partner. And filing rough edges with some of the members of Mägo de Oz, a group where he started in 1994 and which he left in 2011 after some disagreements that have lasted all these years. He also recorded some songs from his new work with Uróboros. “Now I am recording all the voices. And the musicians will already put their parts in. If everything goes well I will re-record them after I recover, because it is getting a bit cold since I cannot listen to the instruments to feel it better, which is how it is cool to record an album: first the guitars, drums, etc., and then, with the sound cannon of the band, you put the voice. But I am doing it like this. That then I go out, because with all the sound I will record it again ”,he told this newspaper on September 5. That will be one of his first missions when he recovers.

That day, he said goodbye to this journalist: “On the 10th, with

from the anesthesia, I call you.

See you soon".

Today he said, smiling: "I have kept my word: I have called you with

.