On September 27, former Menudo singer Anthony Galindo Ibarra attempted to take his own life and had been in a hospital bed in desperate conditions ever since. For six days the doctors tried the impossible to snatch him from death, but on Saturday 3 October they had to give up and the 41-year-old Venezuelan artist is gone forever. “It is with deep sorrow that we give today the news of the death of our beloved Anthony Galindo, after six days during which the doctors did everything humanly possible to save his life – reads a statement from the family. posted on the singer’s Instagram page -. We thank you for all the prayers and support received in these difficult times for our family and for all those who knew him personally and as an artist. As was his will, we accepted the request to donate his organs, so that his death can save other lives.
Depressed because he couldn’t perform
Immediately after his suicide attempt – caused by depression, aggravated by the inability to perform due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as we read in another social post – Ibarra’s family (who leaves his wife Dayana Maya and daughter Elizabeth Michelle) had warned fans about the severity of the singer’s condition through the page opened on GoFundMe to pay for medical and funeral expenses, explaining that the clinical picture “was not compatible with life”. Otherwise known as El Papi Joe, in 1979 Ibarra had joined the Menudo, the Puerto Rico boy band which Ricky Martin was also part of and which is still considered one of the most famous Latin American groups of the 1980s, before moving to the MDOs in 1997.
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