Having to go out and deny one's own death sounds ironic, but it is what José Luis Perales did – maybe he didn't have to, but he felt he did.
Around 16:30 p.m., tweets began alerting the death. URGENT: Spanish singer-songwriter José Luis Perales has died at the age of 78. And some portals began to give the "information".
In Argentina, there were several media that gave fake news as true. And many media portals in the interior of the country replicated it, without corroborating the veracity of the matter.
José Luis Perales denied his own death with a video posted on social networks.
Here, in the newsroom of the newspaper, we were waiting for a confirmation to give the unfortunate news.
And now the news is different.
Who threw the first stone
Maybe, perhaps, in one of those, you never know. At first it seemed that the first to warn that it could be a malicious rumor was El Heraldo, from Mexico. His note, if they enter now, was titled like this: José Luis Perales: what is his state of health? And the drop: National and international media reported his death...
But at 16.31 in Argentina they said that "international media" gave up for dead the Spanish singer.
José Luis Perales came out to deny his death.
Watching his back, El Heraldo passed the ball with the same skill of Messi to the program Ventaneando, saying that there it was "pointed out that this could be only a rumor because there is still no official information in the networks of the artist or from his representatives or family and that they have not been able to confirm the news either."
And later, he published that "it was the Catalan media Catalunya Press that reported the alleged death of José Luis Perales."
But Twitter will be all they want, and whatever they say about Elon Musk, but that old Tweet remained. And with the passing of the hours they went from "They report the death" to the current "What is their state of health".
And then there was a second wave of news, riding the first fake news. The news was no longer that he had died, but "What José Luis Perales died of", and it was claimed, in several portals, that "he had a myocardial infarction".
Well, when you die, they say your heart stops. It stops.
Do you clutch your stomach? Will anything hurt? Perales, at the Movistar Arena, in April 2022. Photo Emmanuel Fernández
If they entered Wikipedia, at 17.10 they gave him up for dead on August 7, 2023.
That lasted until the singer of ¿Y cómo es él? uploaded a video on his networks, from London, where he is enjoying his holidays with his wife and children, to clarify that no, he did not die. That it is more alive than ever.
It was 17.18 p.m. So the fake news lasted approximately 48 minutes.
Will he be imploring heaven? José Luis Perales, on his tour Balada para una despedida. Photo Emmanuel Fernández
"Someone in very bad taste has said that I have died. I'm more alive than ever, happier than ever," he is seen and heard saying in the 44-second recording, which began with a "Hello friends, you spoke from London, a wonderful place ...".
But shortly before Perales published the video, one of his sons had already denied the news to the Spanish newspaper La Razón. So the fake news will have lasted less.
José Luis Perales will return to Spain this Tuesday, August 8. Maybe he comes up with the idea of writing a song. Let's hope it is confirmed, so as not to publish fake news.
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