José Luis Perales Debunks Death Hoax: “I’m Alive and Well”

At 78, the singer had gone to London for a few days to be with his children when the news of his own death suddenly reached him.

Last night, anyone who logged into Twitter would have been startled by impactful news: the death of José Luis Perales. Twitter users, always eager to be relevant and make their mark, began sharing performances of ‘Un velero llamado libertad’ (because of the “Y se marchó” line, as logic and dark humor are our strengths) and listing his greatest achievements. There was just a slight issue: Perales was alive.

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This dead man is very much alive

At 78 years old, the singer had gone to London to spend time with his children when suddenly he received the news of his own death. It’s a strange world where someone has to come out and deny their own death, but that’s how it goes. In a video from his Twitter account, he announced, “The truth is that I am more alive than ever, happier than ever.”

It has been a year since he last took the stage after a tour that ended in Montevideo, where everyone was deeply moved. But of course, someone not performing doesn’t mean they have passed away. Interestingly, the initial news seemingly came from a Latin American media outlet that had obviously not verified the information. In the race to be the fastest, once again, the media forgot to be the most accurate.

It’s not the first time, of course, that people have been declared dead while peacefully at home. In fact, just yesterday, the death of Fernando Savater was announced by a fake account of his publisher… which was promptly closed down. Felipe González, Elena Salgado, Isabel Allende, JK Rowling, Barack Obama, Miley Cyrus…

If you’re famous and you’ve never been declared dead on Twitter, are you really famous? Justin Bieber, for instance, was rumored to have died with a bullet between his eyebrows, and Jackie Chan from a heart attack in the center of New York. Has anyone ever died of nerves upon reading news about their own death? There’s a movie idea right there, mind you.

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Gordon Lightfoot, folk music legend, dies at 84

Gordon Lightfoot, one of the singers who shaped Canada, died of natural causes at the age of 84, leaving the world of music an orphan.

“In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand…”. So began one of the best songs in history, ‘Early Morning Rain’, one of the many fabulous hits composed by Gordon Lightfoot, one of the singers who shaped Canada. Yesterday, at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, he passed away of natural causes at the age of 84, leaving the music world an orphan.

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If I could read your mind, love

Gordon Lightfoot was born on November 17, 1938 and defined the fusion of folk with other styles in the mid-1960s. His songs spoke of roads, boats, rivers, loneliness, love and heartbreak, they smelled of early morning taverns and kisses you no longer feel, they sounded like hugs and farewells on a platform. It was so popular that his songs were covered by Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash or Harry Belafonte, among many others.

Lightfoot learned to play the piano, drums, was interested in orchestration and jazz movements: music pulsed through his veins. So much so, that his first performance was at school, during a day when fathers and mothers were present. He leaves behind 21 studio albums and three live albums in which he gives a good account of his history as a musician: the last one, on March 20, 2020, was, moreover, the first solo recording. Genius and figure.

Lightfoot had cancelled his tour a few weeks earlier due to his health, but nothing foreshadowed this end for an artist who was always in good shape. The world has lost a voice full of nuances that brought back memories of things you never lived. Rest in peace, Gordon.