Armando Manzanero, one of the main composers in Latin America, passed away at 85 years from complications caused by COVID-19.

As detailed by the local press, Manzanero - who had been hospitalized since 17 from December- suffered cardiac arrest at the clinic where he was.

Autor de títulos fundamentales del bolero y la canción romántica como “Somos novios” O “Esta tarde vi llover”, Manzanero maintained a career of more than six decades.

According to the last part provided by the clinic, reported this Sunday, her lungs were fine but her kidneys had complications, reason why he had to continue hospitalized in the Federal District.

“Yo tengo que lamentar mucho, porque me están informando del fallecimiento de don Armando Manzanero”, declared this monday, at his usual morning lecture, The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.