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He was preparing to sing his last great hymn: I deny everything. But he advanced a few meters more than he should, perhaps blinded by the spotlights. The musicians from behind saw him rush, with open arms in cross, in an empty absurdity. Joaquín Sabina fell to 15,000 people at the WiZink Center in Madrid on February 12. None of those present could deny, yes, what they were seeing. Doubts, amazement, bewilderment, careers, a downtime that became eternal. What should have ended at party and glory night, ended up in the hospital.
A stretcher moved him inside. It had collapsed between gadgets, right in that intermediate space that is established between security and the front rows. He fell about two meters to the ground but did so on a subwoofer that dampened the blow in some sense. In the midst of his bad temper he even had a pinch of good luck. Joaquín Sabina brand paradoxes. Paradoxes for the king of contradictions, for the prince of the reverse. The fortune that most likely emanates from the influence brought by his seven cats, like the seven lives he has on him. The problem is that we don't know how many he has spent.
But he still has. For starters, it has been thrown this whole week in the International Ruber. There he landed after the coup and having reassured something of the rock when he appeared before permanently suspending the concert, pushed by Joan Manuel Serrat. “Dear friends, these things, they only happen to me in Madrid, I am very sorry. With all my heart ache I have to go to the hospital because I have a very, very, very sore shoulder. ”
Apparently, he wanted to continue. But those of the Samur told him not to be crazy. He went out and apologized. He announced that he would return in May. Then it was announced that he would do it on the 22nd of that month. But the date is still in the air. In the Ruber, after the relevant examinations, he was diagnosed as having left, thoracic and craniocerebral shoulder trauma. But also - and that was what startled his family and friends - a small clot that was intervened without complications the next morning. He spent 48 hours in the ICU and went to the plant last Tuesday. His clinical history recommended it because of the various coronary problems he has suffered since in 2001 he suffered a stroke that was saved then.
But in recent months it was fine. Very good. The three previous performances in Madrid - Serrat and he had filled that room for four nights - frightened the bad omens and cornered his stage fright. The question is now if he will regain confidence. He has made this clear to his friends: he will continue. He wishes to overcome the shadow of that Pastora Soler syndrome, which he used as a justification to retire already in his stop in December 2014. Then, in June 2018, his voice betrayed him and he could not crown a solo tour. It also happened in Madrid. That city, your city, the one that fascinates and terrifies you.
The program for the next few months is still on the air, altered and at the expense of how it is after leaving the hospital. They were coming to the end of the joint tour with Serrat, although they planned to close some dates not confirmed by Spain after having shot for months in America.
The documentary that Fernando León has been making for nearly a decade is about to culminate. In fact, the filmmaker walked camera in hand behind the scenes that day crossed the destination, capturing some details for the final assembly. The series they plan to make about their life is in preparation. Leon also, Sabina's great friend, has also taken care of that: it will be a biopic that currently has 10 planned chapters, promoted by Endemol Shine Boomdog, the Mexican production company BTF Media and Sony Music Spain.
On a personal level, the announced wedding is still planned for this year. Jimena Coronado and the singer, after 20 years of living together, made the decision last summer, when Sabina asked for her hand at a party with the complicity of several friends. They have not yet revealed when or where it will take place. But there is no doubt that they will fulfill the commitment.
The mood does not decline, on the other hand. It is true that the other day he did not see the triumph of Atlético against Liverpool, but he was glad of the result: that 1-0 with which the Madrid team imposed itself on the current Premier League leader has insufflated him morally.
Convalescence has lengthened in the hospital by mere precaution. The complication of a clot was associated with a broken shoulder. Having suffered a history, doctors decided to operate, but has recovered without complications.
In fact, he has responded to the muses and his friend Chus Visor, editor, says he has paper and pen by his bedside table and is writing songs. Good sign, comment. Of course, a pain reliever and a remover against the bad times that the WiZink Center plays. After the penultimate departure, Jimena Coronado assured EL PAÍS that he had also begun to compose.
At all times he has been surrounded by his inner circle. While Jimena and Sabina's daughters, Rocío and Carmela, passed daily to the intensive care unit, a guard of close friends waited below. Since last Monday he has been receiving more visits. But his family has barely left the hospital. He is still inside, sighing for a tequila.