A vigil of relatives and friends of Marciano Cantero, guiding voice of the Enanitos Verdes, are guarding Mendoza to learn about the health of the musician who is in intensive care from a private clinic following emergency kidney surgery.

Horacio Cantero, his name on the DNI, just turned 62. He started feeling sick a week ago, when he was admitted to the Cuyo clinic, in the city of Mendoza, where he has returned to reside since 2017.

Last Monday, the singer and bassist of the rock band, which celebrated its 40th anniversary, was operated on. His kidney was removed due to a condition and his condition was critical until yesterday.

the word of the son

The only family member who wanted to speak is his son. “My father is recovering from kidney surgery that was scheduled, but it could get complicated and that’s how it was,” Javier Cantero said in a brief interview on Nihuil radio.

The authorities of the Cuyo Clinic have refrained from providing a daily medical report, upon request of the family that asks for “total confidentiality”.

The musician still hospitalized in intensive care. The only information that Cantero’s inner circle gave this morning was received by the music journalist Walter Gazzo: “There is a slight improvementthe family thanks all those who ask for him and pray for him ”.

The love of Abel Pintos

On tour in Mendoza, Abel Pintos dedicated his Wednesday night show at the Arena Maipú stadium to the Mendoza musician. “I’m not used to doing it at my concerts, but I want to ask that this light and energy that you transmit be projected on Marciano Cantero, who We send you the strength to recover“Abel asked. And the audience was accompanied with an ovation.

Even members of the Spanish rock band Hombre G, with whom Los Enanos shared the stage several times, sent him a message of affection and speedy recovery: “All our love for the great @MarcianoCantero. Marciano Force!” Twitter.

Felipe Staiti, the guitarist of Enanitos Verdes, the Mendoza-based band with the greatest international expansion, is one of the supporters who accompanied Viviana, Marciano’s childhood girlfriend and current wife, and their son to the clinic.

The tour that should continue

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, Green Enanitos filled the stadiums once again a tour for the band’s 40th anniversarywhich took them to more than 20 cities in the United States and 25 cities in Mexico.

The tour will continue in Peru, from 7 October, with the performances of the legendary band in Chiclayo, Trujillo and Piura; to continue in November through several cities in Mexico and close on December 3 in Los Angeles.

Cantero is the voice and bass, Staiti, the guitarist and Jota Morelli, on the drums (Daniel Píccolo was in the original band). With the arrival of democracy, they started with presentations in several pubs, and then moved to small theaters in Mendoza and the neighboring provinces.

At the beginning of 1983 they went to Buenos Aires to start playing in pubs and plan a national career. In 1984 the trio was invited to participate in the La Falda Festival, together with great musicians such as Charly Garcia and Luis Alberto Spinetta, e The Green Dwarfs have been chosen as a revelation group.

After the Córdoba festival they went to Buenos Aires and recorded their first album for the independent label Mordisco, The green dwarves.

In 1986 they signed a contract with CBS Argentina (now Sony Music) and released stopwatch. By mid-1987, the band had performed more than 100 concerts across Argentina. It was a year of adjustment and they recorded their third album strange roomswhich has achieved impressive success.

In February 1988, the group was invited as a Central Artist at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, where they won two silver torches. Expansion across Latin America arrives, with their first international tour and the recording of their fourth album, carousel.

The last show in 2022 was on August 14 in the city of Orlando, United States. There they rang again your old letters, the green wall, Daylight, My first day without you and many successes that have marked the adolescence of many Argentines.

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