Indio Solari has announced his retirement from performing

It doesn’t work anymore. El Indio Solari, former singer of Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricota, has announced his retirement from the stage.

The announcement, which struck his fans, came from the mouth of the artist himself, who He has been battling Parkinson’s disease for years.

“Unfortunately for me, for my taste, Parkinson’s disease is progressing. But hey, it is what it is and it has to be fought,” El Indio said in a radio interview with Spanish host Mariskal Romero.

“At the moment, the door is ajar, because my illness – beyond what I want to tell you because I don’t want to turn it into a critical thing – does not allow me to be in my best version. And me It seems to me that I no longer want to appear because of this illness that has… I don’t want to be a struggling artist out there on stage. El Indio has had its day and the gentleman has no direct vocation. The gentleman wants to make music and let whoever wants to play it, ”he added.

Thus, at 74, the singer who is a symbol for more than one generation, said what he feels. And what lives Even if clarified that despite this decision, he will continue to make music.

In addition, he stated that he continues to work in the studio, which in recent months can be heard in the songs he has signed with his two alternative projects: El Míster y los Marsupiales Extintos and El Cantante Tímido.

“Once in a while, when I see the boys playing, something grabs me, but it’s not a drama. I’m calm and doing what I love the most. I wouldn’t want that to stop me to make songs at some point, because what I like the most, in everything that has happened to me, is to make 10 new songs for people to sing”, he warned .

“I feel like it’s time to take a step back and dedicate yourself to being a consigliere, and to stop bothering the young people because you end up being a stopper. They need to grow up and this ceiling does not give more. I don’t suffer or mourn, I don’t miss the stage very much,” he concluded.