The day Tongo asked Peru not to let him die: “I gave everything for you”

Morning He died at the age of 65 and Peru mourns his departure. The national singer, recognized worldwide for his particular way of pronouncing English, suffered from diabetes, renal failure and cancer. These illnesses kept him hospitalized in different hospitals across the country.

One of the most serious relapses occurred in 2019, when he was hospitalized in an intensive care unit (ICU) because his kidneys had stopped working properly. from his bed, Morning he contacted Radio Exitosa to desperately request a transplant of said organ.

At the time,’Tongue‘ reported that his kidneys were functioning at 9% due to the advanced condition of his diabetes.

Finally, and after a hard fight, the singer of ‘PitucaHe ceased to exist on Friday March 10, at the age of 65, at Arzobispo Loayza Hospital. He had been transferred to said dialysis center. Doctors were unable to save his life.

“Special people never die, they stay in our hearts and memory, you were a great father, the best, you filled many people with joy, you will never be forgotten, now is the time for you to fly high and sing up there in the sky, I’ll do it from here for you, we love you forever daddy,” wrote Cint Gutiérrez, daughter of Morningon your platform.

In 2019, Morning He gave details of the end-stage renal failure he was suffering from due to diabetes. At the time, he said he realized his symptoms late, so his chances of recovery were significantly reduced.

“I have always had heart pain, back pain and head pain. I told the doctors that I had pain in my back, in the part of the kidneys. I ask you now to be patient. I’m still going to get ahead to keep enjoying my music, they always want to hurt me, I don’t know why. I only rely on God,” he said on the Lady Guillén show.

He was born with the name of Jose Abelardo Gutierrez Alanyain Huancayo. However, the national entertainer decided to use the stage name Tongo as it was a nickname given to him by his neighborhood friends when he was a child. At first, they called her Tongolita because she couldn’t pronounce the word “raffle”.

“I always said ‘let’s go to tóngola’ and because I was short and chubby, they called me Tongolita, but I didn’t like the feminine diminutive, so I did everything to get them to change my name. When I grew up, I stayed with Tongo,” he said in a Latina TV report.

Later he became known as Tongo Nieves, but when his music started ringing internationally, as it went viral on the internet, he preferred to call himself ‘Tongue‘.