The artist suffered a serious digestive system problem that led to her hospitalization on December 11
The soloist of the group Mocedades Ana Bejerano died this Sunday at the age of 60 at the Urdúliz Hospital (Vizcaya), after not having been able to overcome a serious problem in the digestive system for which she was admitted on Saturday, December 11.
As reported by the singer’s environment in a statement, she died at 7:00 a.m. and the funeral is scheduled for Monday, January 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the Church of Santa Ana, in her hometown of Las Arenas de Getxo.
Mocedades loses a “key figure” in its half century of history. Ana Bejerano joined as a soloist in 1984, at just 24 years old, replacing the “legendary” Amaya Uranga, after she announced her voluntary retirement in October 1983.
“Ana’s voice ensured our continuity after Amaya’s departure, it was essential for Mocedades,” recalled its leader Javier Garay, the last of the so-called ‘historical six’ in the formation.
Garay has praised that “Ana Bejerano has been one of the most elegant Basque voices since the 80s” and has highlighted her “versatility and good taste”. “She could sing with a jazz big band as well as accompanied by an acoustic guitar alone. Her voice in soprano tessitura covered many registers,” she concluded.
Since Bejerano joined the group, she recorded three albums during her first stage: ‘Colores’ (1986), with the singer Donovan ; ‘We will survive’ (1987), and ‘Intimately’ (1992).
In 1993 she left to undertake other projects and, among them, she founded the ‘Txarango’ quintet together with two ‘historic’ from Mocedades, Roberto Uranga and José Ipiña.
Later, in 2018, she rejoined the musical group at the request of Javier Garay. In 2021 they resumed their ’50th Anniversary Tour’ and premiered their new song ‘Que no se acabe el mundo’ at the Nuevo Teatro Alcalá in Madrid during a tribute concert, accompanied by the singers Tamara, Lucrecia, Diana Navarro, and Sole Giménez.
During the following months Mocedades and Ana Bejerano have lived a “second youth”, in which they have exhausted almost all the seats in the Riojafórum de Logroño, the Mérida Conference and Exhibition Center, the Gran Teatro de Cáceres, the Auditorium La Pérgola de Manzanares, the Bimilenaria Cultural festivals in Calahorra and TerraCeo in Vigo, as well as La Vilavella and Vila-real in Castellón.
In addition, on October 29 they collected the 2021 Radio Special Award for a lifetime at the Fibes Auditorium in Seville, where they sang ‘Eres tú’ and ‘Que no se acabe el mundo’, the latest songs by Ana Bejerano on stage.
Its manager José Antonio Alonso, from Talisman Management, has anticipated that “the first Mocedades concert in 2022 will be a tribute to Ana Bejerano” while acknowledging that the group “will take time to recover” from the loss of its soloist.
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