I have been having a beautiful life, so i don’t have any significant adversity that i had to face in my life. Because of this, i’m going to tell a story that happened with the singer José Carreras:
Have you ever heard about the Three Tenors? The group of singers formed by the Italian Luciano Pavarotti and the two Spanish men José Carreras and Placido Domingo.
Placido is from Madrid and Carreras is from Barcelona, and there is a big revanche between people from Madrid and people from Barcelona. In 1984 by politic questions, Carreras and Placido became enemies, in that time, in their contracts said that they only will make a show if the rival didn’t sing in the same event.
Nevertheless, in 1987, Carreras won a new enemy, too much worse, he discovered that he had leukemia. After that, he stopped singing and started a big battle against the leukemia. He submitted in many treatments and soon all of his fortune ended and without condition of work, he didn’t have cash to continue the treatment, but he found out an institution called “Fundacion Hermosa”, this foundation was created with the unique purpose of helping people who have leukemia.
In the end, because of this foundation he won the disease and he restarted to sing. As soon he started to gain a lot of money for his shows, he decided to join the “Fundacion Hermosa”, and reading the contract, he discovered that the biggest colaborator and the president of “Fundacion Hermosa” was Placido Domingo, more than that, the foundation was created, in priciple to help him, and Placido kept in the anonymity for not to constrain Carreras to acept help from the enemy.
Later, an extradiornary moment happened, during a concert of Placido in Madrid, Carreras appears, knelt and apoligezed. Than, in a interview with Placido Domingo, a journalist asked: Why did you create the foundation? By the way, besides helping an enemy, you revived one of the the few artists of the world that could cause a competition for you. He aswered: Because a voice like that, couldn’t be lost.
I loved the estory you wrote!
Rafael,
First of all I would like to congratulation you about your history. It is really beautifull. I had already heard about this but not with all the details that you wrote.
With sure this is an example of good attitudes. Nowadays it’s not so common and examples as this should be remember always.
About the “writing” I really understand the main idea. I think you knew to organize very well.
Hi Rafael, I supposed that you were going to write about your bullet in your head. It was a very different story!
But the story you brought us is very nice and really shows us what´s an adversity is!