Ely Buendia, Alive And Kicking! Now Promoting!

By admin October 28th, 2008 Filed Under Bands, Entertainment, Interview

After two months of rest, Ely Buendia is now back to normal, promoting THe Pupil’s second single on their second album, “Wildlife”.

Last Saturday was one long saturday for Ely Buendia.. It started when ELy Buendia performs with Francis Magalona on Eat BUlaca with the song Super PRoxy (which was suppose to be in the second set of their Eraserheads Reunion Concert).

Now Ely Buendia is bouncing back… here’s what we read:

Almost two months after the rudely-interrupted reunion concert of the Eraserheads at The Fort, Taguig City, vocalist Ely Buendia is beautifully bouncing back after surviving angioplasty, his second in barely two years.

“I’m back to normal,” Ely told Funfare in an exclusive interview at the beauty parlor owned by his partner-manager Diane Ventura in BF Homes, Parañaque City, “although I was told by my doctor to take it easy for a few more weeks. I am taking my medicines and exercising, just walking and nothing more strenuous than that.”

The first time Ely underwent an angioplasty was in January last year when he suffered chest pains and breathing difficulty after a concert in Laguna. Last Aug. 30, he suffered the same symptoms, forcing the concert organizer to discontinue the E-Heads’ much-awaited reunion concert after they parted ways six years ago. The three other members were Raimund Marasigan, Buddy Zabala and Marcus Adoro.

“No,” clarified Diane. “Ely didn’t suffer a heart attack. He didn’t undergo a heart bypass, only another angioplasty.”

“The process was actually preventive,” explained Ely who went through extreme pressure at the time due to the punishing rehearsals and the death of his mother two days before the concert. “The doctors detected a blockage developing in my artery so they decided to do another angioplasty. It runs in our family. Not only my mom but several other relatives have a heart ailment.”

The trooper that he is, Ely proceeded with the concert (the show must go on, as the showbiz adage goes) so as not to disappoint the estimated 60,000 fans who showed up, nevertheless describing that critical period as “a celebration of my mom’s life.”

Still thin (his weight is down to 145 lbs.) and visibly convalescent, Ely said, “My mom wouldn’t have wanted the concert cancelled or postponed. She was an E-Heads fan; she was the one who encouraged me to join the band and she supported me all the way. She even wanted to watch our concert even while she was in the hospital recovering from surgery. What followed was a difficult period. I was performing while the wake for my mom was going on.”

Told that there’s a clamor by fans for the E-Heads to mount another “reunion” concert, this time uninterrupted, Ely said, “Why not? But for sure not this year.” Coming soon is the quartet’s reunion album, recorded “live” during that fateful Aug. 30, to be released by Sony BMG before the end of the year.

But he felt that the Aug. 30 concert was complete as it was, never mind if during the intermission came the grim announcement that he was rushed to the hospital and the concert had to be cut short.

“We sang 15 of our songs during the first part and that was good enough.” said Ely.

The concert was also a chance for Ely and the other E-Heads guys to let bygones be bygones.

“Raimund, Buddy and Marcus were very supportive,” said Diane. “When Ely was in the hospital, they visited every day,” in the same breath denying the rumor that she and Ely were having “differences.”

In the meantime, while Ely is recovering he is playing dad to eight-year-old son Eon to the hilt. Ely’s heir apparent, Eon was humming in the background throughout this interview.

“I plan to peform for as long as I can,” said Ely. “Music is my whole life.”

You can read the whole news article here.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Share and Enjoy:

Eraserheads frontman Ely Buendia is now in stable condition assures manager The much anticipated one night reunion concert of the Eraserheads was cut short when legendary frontman/lead singer of the group collapse during a 20-minute break of their first set performance. Ely Buendia was reportedly rushed to the Makati Medical Center around 10:00pm and transfered to the Philippine Heart Center at...
Eraserheads Concert Post Entertainment is still entertainment, and here’s my post about that big Eraserheads concert event! Of course, just like tube8, you can always watch it on Yutube after the event. What: Eraserheads one-night reunion Concert When: August 30, 2008 Where: CCP Open Grounds Ticket Price: FREE Of course all info...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Comments

Leave a Reply

Ely Buendia, Alive And Kicking! Now Promoting!

Comments

Marian or Angel?

Search

Add Me Technorati

Chat Box

Goodies

Recently Written

Categories

Archives

Recently Written

Monthly Archives

Blogroll

Find It

Admin

Credits