:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/grupoclarin/63UFBDO5WJAHZG3YQOZAOBEC44.gif "Mona Jiménez turned 73, went out to the balcony to say hello and announced changes to the Bum Bum grid")
“I am asleep, asleep, I am not daytime, like you or Juana who get up at 6. I start to wake up at 4 in the afternoon, 5 or 6, I am of the night. Starting at 11 at night the candles light up, last night I fell asleep at 3 in the morning,” explained Carlos “La Mona” Jiménez when the El Doce cameras approached his house with a cake to celebrate his birth. number 73.
“I feel proud to be alive, thanks to Juana, who has saved me so many times… I am very happy,” said the singer, who recently had some ups and downs in his health.
“I’m happy because people’s love gives me a lot of energy, a lot of life, I’m really happy,” he added.
Changes to the Bum Bum Festival schedules
In the midst of the celebrations for his birthday, the singer announced that, due to the unstable prognosis, he spoke with his colleagues and decided, together with his team, to make some changes to the grid schedules.
“We made some time changes. I sang from 1 to 3 in the morning, and since the weather is very annoying, we changed the schedule. We spoke with Ulises Bueno and Damas Gratis, with Pablito Lescano, so that I can go from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m.,” said the musician.
“I want to thank them for giving me the opportunity to sing, because if the rain or water catches me they will put me in the Cardiology (institution where he was hospitalized) again and I don’t want to go,” he added.
“If the weather is good I stay, and I get on stage to sing a song with Ulysses. Now if it rains I get in the car and come here because I don’t want to get wet because from there I go to hospital. You have to take care of yourself,” she explained.