His Death
According to his friend, Aldo Martínez Malo, the author of Pedro Junco-Viaje A La Memoria, "On March 9, 1939, while studying at home, he coughs and spits blood. On April 3, he visited the doctor. He then had to rest at home where I visited him. Already in 1943, he seemed to be all right, but on April he had the same problem again and then he was admitted to Damas de la Covadonga clinic in Havana. Approximately on April 25, at 10 pm. he heard the radio premiere of his song Soy Como Soy, by René Cabel, and some minutes later he dies." He died of tuberculosis and is interred at the Catholic Cemetery in Pinar del Río.
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