The soprano from Guayaquil Astrid Achi Dávila, who was hospitalized due to cancer of the right lung, would be operated on in a hospital in the city, her relatives reported, and the singer and director confirmed United Artists Group, Hilda Murillo.

Achi was until recently active as Director of the Municipal Choir of Adults. Silvia Vélez de Martínez, his student and coordinator, indicated that she and several classmates are organizing a birthday party for him (September 19), but The artist had already had symptoms since mid-August, and she stopped directing because she was out of breath.

“I called her a week before, should we do it on the 19th or postpone it because she was sending us recordings and photos on those days. And he told me: ‘Silvia, I’ll tell you the truth.'” He was in the emergency room at the first hospital, and then he went to Solca, because The diagnosis was lung cancer. Then he asked Vélez not to reveal it.

“When her birthday arrived, I called her to send her a bouquet of roses,” the showgirl recalls, “and she told me that she didn’t want any bouquets, that she was sure to go, she was accepted.” Instead, he agreed to mass for his health.

That day everyone her students gathered for a mass to give thanks for the teacher’s life, though most didn’t know how serious it was until Achi decided to let the entire choir know via voicemail. Those messages, Vélez remembers, soon stopped.

The soprano from Guayaquil has two daughters, Astrid and Viviana, both doctors. Her ex-husband is surgeon Nelson Estrella. Through social networks, he asked for prayers for the singer, whom he described as “a very valuable and prestigious human being.”

“We are very sad,” summed up Vélez. “I tell her this with a broken heart because she is my teacher.”

A singer Hilda Murillo also expressed her solidarity as a representative of the Artistas Unidos group. “We are praying on Astrid’s behalf for her recovery. We know that she was operated on, and according to the source who informed us, she is reacting, but very delicately. The only hope we have is for God to work in her body, to return to her artistic work and to return to the stage.”