Ricardo Arjona did not retire: What happened?

Ricardo Arjona will not continue his current concert tour due to back problems, which will require surgery, the team of the successful Latin performer confirmed to EFE.

“Ricardo Arjona “He is not retiring,” Guatemala’s team makes it clear, reacting to the stir he caused with a post the artist made on his social networks at the end of his ‘Black and White Tour’ in Chile.

“There is no question of retirement. We just finished a very long tour and Richard “There are some health problems (not serious) in the back that need rest,” the team explained in a written statement sent to EFE, denying rumors of a definitive farewell to the stage.

The Guatemalan started the tour ‘Black and white’ 2022 in Europe, from where it continued through the United States and Latin America, and then continued this year with a second leg that culminated with a presentation on December 9 and 10 in Santiago, Chile, ending the 159-concert tour. .

According to Billboard Boxscore, to tours of Arjo in mid-2023 They grossed a total of $154.6 million and sold two million tickets, numbers that put him in the tenth place among the top-grossing Latin acts of all time.

At the end of the last of the two introductory statements in Chile, Arjona, 59 years old, He posted a long statement on Instagram in which he announced that he was stopping the tour, due to back problems that are bothering him and require surgery soon.

“I’ll have to disappear to invent a a reason that is greater than this. If I don’t find it, I’d rather not come back,” he wrote on the social network with an air of mystery that raised the fears of thousands of his followers.

In more than 13,000 comments What the publication adds is a mixture of emotional thanks and pleas for them not to abandon music.

From the office in The artist’s MiamiHowever, they assure that breaks, some of them long, are part of a musician’s career: “It’s something he normally does.”

A review of his discography and tours shows that two or three years passed between the projects of Arjona, with more than 30 years of experience and the author of countless very popular ballads in Latin America, as happened between the release of “Nocturnal Animal” (1992) and “Stories” (1994).

The “Blanco y Negro” tour, on the occasion of their albums “Blanco” (2020) and “Negro” (2021), had to be postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Spinal injections to stay on stage

Last September, Arjona’s team announced it “medical crisis” This made it impossible for the performer to fulfill the final dates of the ‘Blanco y Negro’ tour, especially with recitals in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia.

“Ricardo Arjona intervened with infiltrations in his spine to try to fulfill his commitment, but the results were not enough and he will need a few more weeks of recovery,” his team explained in a statement.

In the following two months, the singer-songwriter received “six spinal infiltrations” (epidural injections) that allowed him to remain standing during the concerts and thus postpone the inevitable surgery in order to fulfill his pending obligations.

But after this month’s stadium concerts Florida Bicentennial Santiagowinner of a Grammy and a Latin Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award, has made it known that he will no longer be able to continue with the tour.

“Life and people have been incredibly generous with this Guatemala neighborhood, a public school teacher, who by playing the guitar, adding a few words and trying out a melody, achieved a miracle he had never imagined,” he noted gratefully.