The popular artist Juana Bacallao, considered an unavoidable Cuban star, was urgently admitted to the “Carlos Juan Finlay” Military Hospital in Havana, as a result of a generalized infection, reported the news portal Cubanet.
According to the media, the singer and comedian 98 years It has a "reserved prognosis," a source from the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) who requested anonymity told the aforementioned media.
His health would have seriously deteriorated due to an infection, he explained.
The singer, known as show-woman from Cuba, was admitted on Monday.
Cubanet obtained statements from another person close to the artist who stated that in recent years no Culture official took care of inquiring about the state of health or basic needs of Bacallao, who "has been in a situation of abandonment," he emphasized.
Juana was born on May 26, 1925 in Havana, and her parents named her Neris Amelia Martínez Salazar, but Cubans and the entire world He knows her as Juana Bacallao.
Her artistic career began when she was a teenager. She never studied music and has stated in several interviews that her gifts for dancing and singing were born with her.
Juana has had a successful professional life of more than half a century. He stood out at the Tropicana Cabaret and little by little became an icon of popular art in Cuba.
Due to her advanced age, Juana Bacallao no longer offers interviews as she used to do in other times.
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