“To go on tour I need to go into the operating room”

Until I run out of voiceLeiva’s documentary film that opens in theaters this Friday, explores the emotional battle that the musician faces to cope with his voice problem, an ailment that he spoke about last night in The Anthill with a hopeful and optimistic outlook, because, as he repeated on several occasions, despite everything, he is a “very lucky guy.”

“I don’t have a serious problem, because there are other serious problems, I like to emphasize this, but I have a major vocal cord problem and I am a singer.then it is very exhausting and a nuisance,” the 45-year-old Madrid artist began by saying. “To go on tour I need to go into surgery and they inject me with something into my vocal cord that helps me have more strength and be able to face a tour trying to avoid some of the hoarseness that I have very often,” he explained sincerely.

Leiva, ex-partner of actress Macarena García and great friend of Joaquín Sabina, confessed that “at first it was very hard” to accept his voice problem and that, to this day, “They continue to help me on a therapeutic levelHowever, his film does not focus solely on the disease. Until I run out of voicehe explained, “it talks about luck.” “I have to see the glass half full. I can continue singing and I can continue touring,” he celebrated, although with some conditions. “I do fewer shows, before I did 80 and now I do 30. I can’t do two in a row either because the risks are already beginning, but I can. So I can’t see myself as a handicapped person, I see myself as a very lucky guy.“he insisted.

When Pablo Motos asked him if his success had a greater percentage of luck than work, Leiva responded without hesitation. “I believe that the interference of luck in my life is more important than talent and effort.. Let’s see, I have a couple of almost hernias in my back from being in a van for 25 years with a pick and shovel, but I believe that the things that have changed my life have been encounters and situations that I have not caused and luck, I am sure, has a very big interference,” he reflected.

Throughout the interview, Bread He also spoke with complete naturalness about some of the hardest episodes of his life: the accident in which he lost an eye when he was 12 years old, the anxiety he feels before each concert and the gastrointestinal problems he has suffered since he was a child. “It’s something that has accompanied me since I was little and, suddenly, on tour it tends to become more acute.. I suppose it has to do with something psychosomatic, but I also have some things there,” he explained about his digestive disorders.

Without wanting to be too explicit, the musician acknowledged that it has happened “more than 60 days with diarrhea“at some times in his life.”I’m losing a lot, which is not going well, but you have to live with it.“, he accepted. Far from regretting, the musician once again felt very lucky. “Deep down, I have a very cool life. I get in a van with some friends, I arrive in a city, I play and they pay me, then you have to compensate with other things“he concluded.