Raphael, hospitalized after suffering a stroke during the recording of ‘The Revolt’ | Culture

The singer Raphael, 81, suffered a stroke while recording a special Christmas program on Tuesday. The revoltas he advanced The Spanish and Madrid police and emergency sources confirmed to EL PAÍS, who explained that he is “with a reserved prognosis.” After being treated in the ambulance, the artist, who has two massive concerts planned this weekend, has been transferred to the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid. “We send you a big kiss and we hope you get better quickly and we can welcome you again soon,” wrote the space on the X social network.

A TVE spokesperson explained that “he was recording the program, he did not feel well and he went out on his own to take the ambulance.” Sources from Samur in Madrid confirmed, for their part, that a person of about 80 years of age had been treated for a “cerebrovascular pathology on Tres Cruces Street”, where the Príncipe Gran Vía Theater is located, which houses the space presented by David Broncano. . The curious people have recorded the ambulances with their cell phones at the moment in which he was treated.

The interview with the artist from Linares (Jaén), however, was not the one planned for the day of recording, but rather one for one of the Christmas specials of The revolt which, despite being filmed this Tuesday, are scheduled to be broadcast on December 25 and 31. “Unfortunately, Raphael felt unwell during the recording and we were not able to carry out the program as planned,” he explained. The revoltwhich aired this Tuesday an episode recorded last Friday with Nathy Peluso. Raphael is a classic face of Spanish Christmas, and in particular that of TVE, since the singer’s Christmas Eve special The drummer It was broadcast for years on La 1. Just last November he recorded the famous Christmas carol again in an open-air concert in his native Linares.

This Monday he was precisely talking about his career in The anthilland Pablo Motos wanted to send a message to the singer after reporting that he had suffered a cerebrovascular failure in The revolt: “it seems that the tests are going well,” said the presenter. Antonio Orozco, who was a guest this Tuesday on the Antena 3 program, reacted like this: “We have all stayed in shock. They haven’t answered my messages, but I’m sure it will turn out well. He has come out of much worse things. “I wish him to get well.”

Raphael He is one of the four artists in the world who has a uranium record for having sold more than 50 million copies throughout his career. In 2003, the singer recognized for My big night, Let’s talk about love, Whatever they say, Scandal o I am thatone of the most popular on the Spanish scene, needed a liver transplant to put an end to hepatitis B, a disease that he had suffered since he was 20 years old: “That has been the opportunity for me to continue living much better than before and to enjoy things much better than before. “Something that was very dramatic became a great opportunity,” he said in an interview with EL PAÍS in November, where he resisted talking about his retirement: “What the hell do you want me to do in my house? Should I stay watching TV? Or am I going to see how Nadal plays? That’s not because he has already retired.”

After more than 60 years of career, this year he released his eighty-sixth album, Yesterday… Stillrecorded in Paris, a tribute to French song and its great idols: Piaf, Aznavour, Bécaud, Brel… while continuing its eternal tour, Tour Victoriawhich plans to put the finishing touch at the Wizink Center this weekend, December 20 and 21, in two massive concerts that are already a Christmas classic. For the moment, the shows are still on, and among their plans for 2025 is to premiere their new show, Raphaelísimo, whose tour begins in May.

This December, he was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Jaén: “My voice has always been my best ally, allowing me to explore my limits and constantly evolve. I have never been interested in simply being a singer who sounds good, I have always tried to be a performer who moves, shakes and awakens feelings, because in music, as in life, the essential thing is not perfection, but truth. And in that search for authenticity is where the true power of interpretation lies,” he said on that occasion.