On December 6, 2018 everything changed perpetually for Kepa Junkera and all the people around him: that day, the musician, an unquestionable figure in popular music, suffered a stroke during a concert tour in Belgium. Almost four years later, the process of readjusting him to the changing new reality continues to advance thanks to his tenacity: “I’m very stubborn now, before, and I hope later,” he tells us.
We interviewed Junkera with the mediation of his family, and we found him “very screwed, as I usually say. I always need a lot of help, and I am very grateful to everyone”.
Kepa Junkera, who, like the Oskorri musician Natxo de Felipe, synthesizes in the documentary on the history of the trikitilari Berpiztu (Fermin Aio) “dreamed and invented a new world for the trikitixa”, he feels “happy because there are people much worse than me”, although, obviously, “the most difficult thing is to see the children and the family suffer”.
Kepa Junkera (‘Berpiztu’)
Stroke is today the leading cause of disability in our society, and the leading cause of death among women. In 2021, 11,700 cases of stroke were detected in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, a disease caused by an interruption in blood flow to the brain or the rupture of a vein or artery in the brain.
On October 20, Junkera attended the premiere in Bilbao of the aforementioned documentary Berpiztuwhich its director Fermin Aio defines as “a story of effort, fulfilled dreams, illness and overcoming” in which EITB participates, and was once again the object of numerous expressions of affection on the part of its public.
“I am overwhelmed with people for the love they have given me. I did not expect it,” says the musician, embarking on new projects such as a book about his career, with a careful design, which will be available at the Durangoko Azoka: “I continue with the help of many friends who help me think,” he tells us.
The music, of course, has not stopped playing around him: Junkera affirms that he continues to listen to “the good and the best” while he continues the work of conditioning himself to a disease that shakes his body, emotions, thoughts and realities and of those around him: “It has been very difficult for everyone, but something I learned from my parents is not to complain.”
Source: Eitb
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