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Patricio Manns, one of the symbols of the local songwriting and fundamental in the development of the New Chilean Song in the 60s, has been hospitalized for four days at the Reñaca Clinic due to a series of complications derived from the diabetes that afflicted him a few years ago .
His wife, Alejandra Lastra, who has been with him since 1979 and also an essential work partner in the dissemination of his work, is also interned at the place.
“Indeed, they are both in a delicate situation, for different reasons that are not related to the pandemic or Covid-19, they are things that come from before,” confirms Lucio Parada, close to the family, to Culto. Manns is 83 years old today.
In addition, Parada says that the artist is undergoing all the examinations for a possible intervention. “It is to avoid further complications. He has a foot injury from his diabetes and we are looking at the best way to deal with this situation. It is being evaluated to be the least invasive possible ”, he assures.
Although he qualifies the situation as “a serious concern”, he points out that the musician is not “at risk of life.”
For his part, Lastra is on respiratory support, also in a delicate condition from a disease that has dragged on for a few years.
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Finally, Parada says that both have been hit hard by the pandemic and the situation it has opened up for musicians, with no options to perform live or to travel. For the rest, Manns would also have been affected by not being considered again either in the National Prize for Literature or in the Music Prize.
Like much of his generation, the musician began in folklore, debuting as a composer in 1959 with the song Bandido. But in 1965 its first great milestone appeared and its place in the Chilean songbook began to rise: that year Arriba en la Cordillera, its capital anthem, was released. On that same date, together with Rolando Alarcón and the Parra brothers, he founded the so-called Peña de los Parra, becoming an active protagonist of the New Chilean Song movement.
After the military coup of 1973, he lived in exile in France, developing over the years multiple tasks that exceeded music, such as novels, essays and poetry, as well as reflections on current affairs and presentations from time to time in more limited venues. , even until very recently. All traces of his deep legacy in the national culture.
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