«I stepped aside, disconnected from social media, and focused on what was happening to me. In March 2022, I was diagnosed with lung cancer.. A bit of a cough that wouldn’t go away, the decision to do an X-ray and the discovery.” Luca Carboni says this in an interview with Evening Courier. «I was speechless, that disease is in our life, but you think it will never touch you. Suddenly everything changed».
«I was recording a new album, I had already defined ten songs including the single The ball and another one that was supposed to come out that summer, a song that I care a lot about, that I had written in 1986 to propose to Vasco and that I then decided to record personally, Rimini in summer»says the singer-songwriter.
«I had planned the album and then the tour. Instead, in a few minutes, everything changed. From the choice of songs I moved on to the choice of therapies to survive. The tumor was large, difficult to operate. The oncology staff at Sant’ Orsola – led by the Chief Prof. Andrea Ardizzoni, with the collaboration of the pulmonologist Piero Candoli and the surgeon Piergiorgio Solli – immediately started a massive chemotherapy treatment”.
«The tumor shrank a lot and in August it was possible to have an operation to remove it. Luckily there were no metastases and after the operation we continued with the immunotherapy.. After two years I can say that I am technically cured. although, with this type of disease, this word has a fragile meaning.”
A long and painful journey, “dramatic”, during which he said he did not give in to despair and also found his faith again.
Carboni stopped smoking, took long walks in nature and started painting again. “My return to the world will happen in November in my Bologna,” he says, where an exhibition is scheduled with his paintings, drawings, the storyboard of his first video and the notes of each of his albums. Music has also returned to life, with many ideas for new songs: “Now,” he says, “I can start again.”
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