The musician Willie Colón, also known as 'El rey de la salsa', was admitted to a Virginia hospital after suffering a traffic accident when he was traveling in a motor home with his wife, Julia Colón, as reported this Sunday by his head of communication, Neil MacCarty.
The salsa singer and singer from the Bronx, New York, is in "serious but stable condition
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A statement details that the accident occurred on April 20, when the couple was traveling through the Outer Banks region, in the state of North Carolina.
The couple had to be removed from the vehicle by rescue teams, due to the state in which their transport had been after the accident and the artist was transferred to the Sentara Norfolk hospital, in Virginia.
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Salsa musician Willie Colón in a March 5, 2009 file photo.
His spokesman indicated that
Colón suffered a head injury with concussion
, and cuts to his head, for which he needed 16 stitches, as well as fractures in his C1 cervical at the base of the skull.
In addition, he specified that as soon as possible he will be transferred to the Presbyterian hospital in New York to be treated by his medical team.
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For her part,
Julia Colón suffered cuts and bruises and was treated at an Outer Banks hospital from where she has already been discharged
.
The note, which does not provide details on the causes of the accident, assures that no other vehicle was involved in the accident.
Willie Colón, who in 2020 celebrated his 50 years of musical career, is the grandson of Puerto Rican immigrants and grew up in a Latin quarter of the Bronx, in New York, a fact that has marked his personal and artistic career.
With information from Efe.
