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Colombian salsa master Joe Arroyo back in intensive care

by | Jun 30, 2011

Colombia News - Joe Arroyo

Joe Arroyo, one of Colombia’s greatest salsa performers, has been re-hospitalized with a pulmonary edema and a kidney infection, local media reported Wednesday.

The singer was newly admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the La Asuncion clinic in Barranquilla — on the north Caribbean Coast — on Monday, after his health failed for the second time in two months.

In May, Arroyo was hospitalized after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest. By the end of May, the singer was back to health, and in mid-June gave a performance in Bogota.

The salsa master is reportedly stable, calm and breathing on his own.

Arroyo has enjoyed a highly successful career of over 40 years, and is most famous for songs including “Tania,” “La rebelion” and “A mi dios todo le debo.”

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