In an interview for EL PILÓN, Rafael Santos Díaz, son of the late vallenato music singer Diomedes Díaz Maestre, told the story behind ‘Volver a vivir’one of the most heartfelt songs by ‘Cacique’, in which he narrated one of the hardest moments of his life.
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The musical theme arose in 1998 when Díaz Maestre was diagnosed with Guillain Barre syndrome, which kept him in a bed and in a wheelchair for several months, losing the mobility of some parts of his body.
“That song was very hard, my father was convalescing from Guillain-Barré and God gave him the strength to carry out this recording work. The cover is him sitting with features of the disease in his hands. It was something that caused such an impact because no one wanted to see a man who gave us so much happiness in a wheelchair.”said Rafael Santos.
This is how Diomedes captured that moment:
“A bed in four walls
and a deep pain in the body
a chair where they move me
they accompany me in the moment
I am a body without movement
product of a disease
sometimes I start to cry
but I gain nothing from that”
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‘Relive‘ was included in the album that is titled the same as the song and from which are also released ‘A un affection del alma’, ‘No one else like you’, ‘Caracoles decolores’, ‘Dreams and experiences’, ‘Two hearts ‘ and ‘The skeleton’, among others. The production It was recorded alongside accordion player Iván Zuleta.
