▲ The musician at a press conference in Foro Sol in 2019.photo That day
Ana Monica Rodriguez
la jonada newspaper
Saturday, March 2, 2024, Page 14 7
Three months after his 80th birthday, Javier Bátiz, the self-proclaimed father of Mexican rock and blues, is hospitalized in failing health but Not serious
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Since last Thursday, multiple media outlets and portals have reported that wizardBorn in Tijuana, Baja California, Carlos Santana’s teacher was hospitalized under medical supervision due to complications including pneumonia and possible heart disease.
His wife Claudia Madrid reported live on air after rushing him to hospital They will perform an ultrasound on his heart because they found water on his body.If the matter is not serious, he will get out of trouble; Not serious, not serious
This is what the manager of Javier Isaac Medina Núñez (the musician’s real name was born in that border city on June 3, 1944) said on several occasions.
Madrid said her husband underwent a cardiac ultrasound due to several ailments he suffered during his stay in Mexico City, where he visited the National Film Center on February 19 and his condition worsened upon his return to Tijuana.
It is worth mentioning that the life and career of the iconic guitarist will be seen in the documentary directed by Alejandro Tamayo, Javier Batís: Tijuana’s iconic musicianwhich will be screened at the 31st San Diego Latin Film Festival.
In 2014, during an interview with this newspaper, teacher Regarding the guitar, he said he considers himself a clean, normal, grateful…and talented musician. He emphasized: If the only thing you have in life is your promises and you don’t keep them, you have nothing. What I sing is me. God blessed me to be able to play this role and have a lot of people dancing and singing.
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wizard Bátiz is a legend in Mexico’s contemporary music scene: in 1957, he founded the blues-based band Los T’JS in Tijuana. Under his leadership, Mexico’s first rock and roll movement was born. His image inspired the creation of protest bands such as Álex Lora’s Three Souls in my Mind. In the sixties he developed his career in Mexico City: he played in Los Rebeldes del Rock, the first singing café that appeared in that decade; He performed in the legendary Harlem and was the representative of existentialism of his generation.
In 1969, Batiz performed at Mexico’s first major open-air concert in the Alameda Center.Since then he has been recognized as a great icon of Mexican rock music, with more than thirty albums, among which you can mention Javier Batiz and the famous Finks (1963), radio complacency (1985), 60s rock (2001) and wizard in america (2008).