Veteran Puerto Rican salsa singer Ismael Miranda has been admitted to a Puerto Rican hospital again “due to health changes.” after being discharged on March 1 after recovering from a heart attack in January this year, his family reported this Friday.
According to Janice Battle, Miranda’s wife and representative of the Miranda-Battle family, on March 1, the famous performer was discharged from HealthSouth Hospital in Manati, a municipality on the north coast of Puerto Rico, where he was receiving therapy.
However, on 3 March, two days after convalescing at her residence, Miranda’s family decided to transfer the singer to the hospital “due to health changes”., as detailed Battle in a press release posted on social networks.
“According to the emergency medical protocol, the necessary tests were performed, which showed no change,” he explained.
“Given this, health professionals have decided to keep him under observation for his previous diagnosis,” Battle added.
Miranda, according to his wife, is currently “stable and eager to return home to continue his therapies.”
The 70-year-old artist was hospitalized on January 22 because he was suffering from dizziness and the tests he underwent and confirmed that he had suffered a stroke, as reported at the time.
Miranda underwent surgery the next day, presenting complications to the cerebellum.
With over fifty years in the music world, Miranda was part of the group Pipo y su Combo Sextet and the group Andy Harlow y su Sexteto.
In 1967 he made his first record with Joey Pastrana entitled “Let’s Ball”, in which a teenager Miranda achieved his first radio success with “Rumbón melón”.
Faced with his good performances with Andy Harlow, his brother, Larry, decided to recruit him for his orchestra.
Convinced of the singer’s potential, in 1968 Larry launched the production “Orquesta Harlow presents Ismael Miranda”, which was followed by “Electric”, “Tribute to Arsenio Rodríguez”, “Harlow’s Harem”, “Abran paso” and “Oportunidad”.
At the height of the salsa explosion, Miranda broke out with great force and in 1973 released “This is how a son is composed”, a success that would be achieved with songs such as “Empty Bed”, “Broken Glass”, “Borinquen has montuno “,” Like my town “and” The Forties “.