{"id":222572,"date":"2020-06-09T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T23:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=222572"},"modified":"2020-06-09T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T23:47:11","slug":"pau-dones-leader-of-jarabe-de-palo-dies-at-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/pau-dones-leader-of-jarabe-de-palo-dies-at-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Pau Don\u00e9s, leader of Jarabe de Palo, dies at 53"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Singer-songwriter Pau Don\u00e9s, vocalist of the group Jarabe de Palo, has died at the age of 53 as a result of the cancer he was diagnosed with in 2015 and against which he had been battling ever since.<\/p>\n

In a brief statement published on the social media, the Don\u00e9s Cirera family reported the death of the musician and thanked the medical team and all the staff of the hospitals where he was treated for \u201call their work and dedication during all this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u00e9s never hid his disease, openly spoke about his fight against it and participated in several charity concerts for cancer research, before and after retiring from the stage, in January 2019.<\/p>\n

However, last April, in the midst of the pandemic, he had announced his return to music, after being retired for more than a year, and on May 27 Jarabe de Palo released the video of its single \u201cEso que t\u00fa me das,\u201d part of the album Tragas o escupes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Pau Don\u00e9s is the author of some of Spanish music\u2019s big hits in recent decades, such as \u201cLa flaca,\u201d \u201cDepende,\u201d \u201cHumo,\u201d \u201cGrita\u201d or \u201cBonito,\u201d among other songs, which he has included in a dozen albums released.<\/p>\n

As a composer, he wrote songs that were sung by Celia Cruz (\u201cDos d\u00edas en la vida\u201d), Ricky Martin (\u201cCambia la piel\u201d), Alanis Morisette (\u201cEverything\u201d) or performed as a duo with Leiva (\u201cVecina\u201d) and Crissie Hynde (\u201cCry\u201d).<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2015, he was found to have colon cancer, for which he underwent surgery at the Vall d\u2019Hebron Hospital in Barcelona. The operation was not enough and he had to undergo a second one and chemotherapy sessions.<\/p>\n

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