{"id":1256285,"date":"2022-01-30T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1256285"},"modified":"2022-01-30T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T19:38:16","slug":"argentine-singer-diego-verdaguer-dies-of-covid-19-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/argentine-singer-diego-verdaguer-dies-of-covid-19-complications\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Singer Diego Verdaguer Dies of COVID-19 Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fargentine-singer-diego-verdaguer-dies-of-covid-19-complications%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1256285&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mexico-argentina-obit-diego-verdaguer-argentine-singer-songwriter-diego-verdaguer-poses-portrait-e1643567696962-639x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Argentine singer-songwriter Diego Verdaguer, whose romantic hits such as \u201cCoraz\u00f3n de papel,\u201d \u201cYo te amo\u201d and \u201cVolver\u00e9\u201d sold almost 50 million copies, has died of complications from COVID-19, his family said Friday. He was 70.<\/p>\n<p>The naturalized Mexican-Argentine musician, who was married to singer Amanda Miguel, died Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles, his daughter Ana Victoria said in a statement released by Diam Music, Verdaguer\u2019s record company.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cWith absolute sadness, I regret to inform his fans and friends that today my father left his beautiful body to continue his path and creativity in another form of eternal life,\u201d said his daughter. \u201cMy mother, I and the whole family are immersed in this pain, so we appreciate your understanding in these difficult times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement was also published on the Twitter account of Amanda Miguel, who wrote \u201d#restinpeace\u201d along with the emojis of a pair of her hands palm to palm and a white heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Verdaguer dedicated his last blog post to his wife, writing: \u201cI will never tire of dedicating this song to you. You are the thief who stole my heart!\u201d he wrote, referring to his song \u201cThief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verdaguer contracted COVID-19 in December and was hospitalized, according to the statement. His publicist in Mexico, Claudia L\u00f3pez Ibarra, said he was vaccinated against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, he was vaccinated \u2026 but the virus attacked him in the U.S. when the Delta variant was present,\u201d L\u00f3pez Ibarra told the AP in a text message on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel has publicly expressed anti-vaccine views.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publicist, Verdaguer frequently traveled to the United States, especially after the birth of Lucca, the eldest son of Ana Victoria, who lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe deeply regret the loss of #diegoverdaguer, we were together recently when the came to our concert in Los Angeles. A hug for @amandamiguels and his family,\u201d tweeted the Argentine singing duo Pimpinela.<\/p>\n<p>Verdaguer was born in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1951 and debuted as a soloist at the age of 17 with the single \u201cLejos del amor\u201d, which was followed by others such as \u201cYo te amo\u201d and \u201cVolver\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Since 1980, he had lived in Mexico, a country to which he dedicated his album \u201cMexicano hasta las Pampas,\u201d which was nominated for two Latin Grammys, and its sequel, \u201cMexicano hasta las Pampas 2,\u201d as well as the live album \u201cMexican\u00edsimos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you, I am more Mexican than anything. I love Mexico, I love what Mexico has meant in my life, I love the opportunities that Mexico has given me,\u201d the artist said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Verdaguer met Miguel when she was 18 and he was 24. His daughter Ana Victoria was born in 1983.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAmanda Miguel has been my inspiration since I met her,\u201d Verdaguer told the AP. \u201cI really appreciate everything we\u2019ve done together as a couple, as artists, as individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Verdaguer was recognized by the Mexican Society of Authors and Composers with a special award for his 50-year career.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Verdaguer made the leap to streaming and accumulated more than 2 million followers on social networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to evolve spiritually and understand the meaning of life,\u201d Verdaguer told the AP. \u201cWe came to live a divine experience, we came to learn, we came to give ourselves, we came to perfect ourselves, we came to give, we came to help, because giving and helping one feels better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No details about Verdaguer\u2019s funeral were released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 Argentine singer-songwriter Diego Verdaguer, whose romantic hits such as \u201cCoraz\u00f3n de papel,\u201d \u201cYo te amo\u201d and \u201cVolver\u00e9\u201d sold almost 50 million copies, has died of complications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}