Enrique Bunbury has just announced that he is retiring from the stage for throat problems. In a statement released on his social networks, he gives some clues about the disturbing illness that has afflicted her vocal cords for some time, specifically since the 2015-2016 ‘Mutaciones’ tourwhich has been difficult for him to “locate and understand” and which only appears, it seems, when “trips and ‘shows’ begin”.
But, What exactly happens to the former leader of Heroes del Silencio, who takes its toll on him when he gets on stage? With the stoppage of international tours during 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, he thought that his condition “had been diluted”. But the return to the ring with his last ‘tour’, with which he is celebrating his 35-year career, has corroborated the worst of his omens. “From the moment I leave my house and trips and ‘shows’ begin, a compendium of symptoms and pains They accompany me from the morning until the moment I get on stage. I’ve heard different names and diagnoses. The truth is that my throat closes up and irritates and my airways make even the slightest exercise and the execution of my work difficult. So what was normally pleasure and delight has become an immense source of pain and suffering. None of this ever happens to me if I’m not on tour“.
Stress, tired or what?
The 54-year-old Aragonese singer, musician and composer, creator of hymns such as ‘Between two lands’ or ‘Cursed goblin’ with the band from Zaragoza Héroes del Silencio (1984-1996) and ‘Lady Blue’ or ‘The Impossible Club’ alone, states in the same statement that his withdrawal is only from the scenariosbecause he will continue with his art: “An endless number of possibilities open up before me, in which the creative, that is, composing songs, recording albums, painting and writing poetry books are part of my goals”.
In an interview granted in December 2020 to the portal Marshal Rockthe international musician talked about taking care of his voice and confessed that, when he was on tour, they were “very stressful nose and throat issues”. “It’s stressful to spend all day thinking: ‘I have a little runny nose’ or ‘My throat itches, I have to sing tonight’. There comes a time when, when you don’t have to sing every day in front of the public, it’s a real pleasure to go through a hoarseness or a day of coughing. Even with the enjoyment of saying: ‘Today I can cough as much as I want'”.
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“Different Names and Diagnoses”
The artist, who has spent years settled in California with his family and his wifethe photographer and visual artist Joseph Girldoes not clear in his note, however, if the evil that afflicts his throat -and of which he claims to have heard “different names and diagnoses”-it is simply due to stress, or to some psychosomatic problem or some rare neurological disease such as dystonia that Jordi Roca, the pastry chef brother of Celler de Can Roca, has suffered since 2010, which has seized his neck and left him practically without voice.