Silvana does not lose her voice: she continues to sing while she thinks about her treatment and recovery

Very calm and sure of himself, the singer Silvana Ibarra He focuses on the positive of the moment he is alive, despite a recent diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma: “I’m going to ring the bell and say, ‘Thank God, I’m over it.'”.

In an interview with this newspaper, she stands by what she has said so far: that she feels she is prepared for this moment, since seven years ago she accompanied her brother, who was suffering from cancer. “When they told me I had to accept God’s will, I was afraid to hear those words,” he admits.

“Now I take it for what it is; I’m taking it easy, but that doesn’t mean I won’t fight for my life.”, clarifies the artist, who is about to turn 65 (on February 17). “You have to fight to the end. God willing, we will be there; and if not, then death is part of life and we must accept it.”

He is currently a controller in Solca, and The radiotherapy treatment starts at the end of February, the right one for your case. But in the first days of that month he will return to the stage, as he plans to complete five performances in New York.

Recall that the businessman was saddened by the first news published on this topic. “I have cancer, but I am doing well, I am vital,” says the interpreter. “I am very strong and want to continue singing, and I am going on this happy journey. It is a commitment; I can’t keep my audience waiting. I’m traveling on February 8th and returning on the 23rd. From there we start radiotherapy (in Guayaquil). I inject myself with power”, says the actress (A woman, Real life, Cholicienta, The secret of Toño Palomino, Killer women).

She is her doctor and friend, Dr. Antonio Jurado, and the team that cares for her. He had his thyroid removed a few months ago.. She had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism twenty years ago, and one of the consequences was a tendency to gain weight. Bariatric surgery, she explains, has helped her better maintain and manage her condition.

Until a year and a half ago, when he got the first warning. “I had an ultrasound and the doctor saw that it was cancer because of the shape of the lump. They gave me a flat tire and it was negative; “It looks like my thyroid was very small and the needle didn’t reach there.”

Silvana sings a few lines during the interview and her voice is heard as always. Were you ever afraid of losing her? “Of course I talked to at least five doctors and they told me, ‘The best thing is that you have surgery.’ I was very afraid of losing my voice. I lowered the register a semitone“, he confesses, adding that he had a presentation planned two weeks after the operation. “I had to sing and I made progress. “I thought I couldn’t do it, but now I feel very good. “

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Silvana is sure that she was born for the entertainment world, since her other career is journalism, and when she prepares for a concert, she usually does it by embroidering the costumes she will wear on stage.

“Music fulfills me and I want to continue singing and recording new songs.” Are there any previously unreleased songs? “I’m thinking about it. Anyway, the treatment is coming. It’s going to take at least six months for me to get my voice back because, as I was told about the radiotherapy, it’s something serious; So that time I will be virtually voiceless. I thought of a song of mine called You’re killing my love, which I recorded in 2010; I want to do it in a different rhythm.”

The singer is dependent on her family, especially her daughter Ámar. “My brothers and my brother-in-law are great people and they help me follow this path. I know the hardest part is coming. According to the doctors I have an aggressive cancer, but many people have been cured. So I am optimistic and confident”. She does not forget her three dogs, who accompany her and wait for her at home.

He promises that he will sing soon I’m falling in love with you (“my lyrics and music”), Nostalgia for love, you are unfaithful to me And I’m not coming home anymore. “They are all my sources of inspiration and that’s why it’s nice when people ask me about them.” What can’t you forget before you leave the stage? “The other“If I don’t sing it, they won’t let me go out.”