Shocked! journalist Jaime Bayly released a video on his YouTube channel in which he dedicated a heartfelt message following the singer-songwriter's death Pedro Suárez-Vértiz (PSV).
However, in this video, Bayly recounted anecdotes she shared with Suárez-Vértiz during their long friendship: She couldn't help but burst into tears as she remembered it.
“I say it and I can’t believe it. I'm sad, very sad, I'm devastated. […] The great Pedrito left at just 54 years old. “I can’t believe it,” the author said at the beginning.
Afterwards, Jaime stated that he conducted between eight and ten interviews both in Peru and in the United States, where he currently lives The singer was characterized by his creative and friendly personality.
“An interview with Pedrito was always a roller coaster ride, an erratic, unpredictable journey into different valleys where Pedrito’s genius flourished,” he said.
On the other hand, he added: “In every interview with Pedrito, he took me on a journey to fascinating places, dazzling places that I had never visited before, because Pedrito saw life like no one else.”
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Jaime Bayly cries as he thinks of Pedro Suárez-Vértiz
In the first half of his video entitled “Adiós, Pedrito” published on YouTube, the journalist broke down while recalling the friendship he had with the singer of “My car was a frog”.
“As I remember the interviews that Pedrito gave me, I would like to remember an occasion…” he commented, crying. “Forgive me for getting emotional, but it's like a brother died for me,” he added.
After his recovery, the author told an anecdote about the singer postponing the birth of his eldest son Salvador in order to conduct an interview offered to Bayly.
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Pedro Suárez-Vértiz delayed the birth of his son Salvador to give an interview to Jaime Bayly
The journalist reported that he and his producer Ximena Ruiz had invited PSV to their television show in Miami, but he could not come because his wife Cynthia Martínez was giving birth to their first child, Salvador.
“Ximena (his producer) and I invited him here to record a program in Miami (USA), but he could not travel because his wife Cynthia (Martínez) was going to give birth by caesarean section to the first child of the family. Married couple whose name is Salvador. “Pedrito was Pedrito,” he said.
However, Pedro did something that surprised Bayly when he convinced his wife to postpone the birth of their son. This allowed Suárez-Vértiz to travel to the United States to reunite with Jaime.
“Pedrito convinced Cynthia and the gynecologist to change the date of the cesarean section so that he could travel to do the interview with me. That was Pedro. Only Pedrito did these things. He was the best friend in the world. The most loyal, the most generous. The wickedest, the kindest. “What a friend Pedrito was!” he said.
Pedro Suárez-Vértiz died on Thursday morning, December 28th, at the age of 54. The cause of the artist's death is not yet known.