The singer Alejandro Sanz will be invested with an honorary doctorate by the Spanish University of Cádiz (UCA) on September 7 in the town of Algeciras, his father’s hometown, in recognition of his career and his intense ties to that southern province. from Spain.
The UCA made the news public this Thursday on its social networks, where it celebrates that the academic institution “opens its doors to an artist and musician characterized by two pieces of evidence: the solid international recognition of his career and the attachment and defense that he has always made of Cádiz and its province”.
The university made the decision for “the multiple merits (of the singer) in the field of arts and culture and his brilliant and international musical career.”
Upon learning the news, Sanz thanked this appointment on his social networks and He assured that “being distinguished in this way is a great personal and professional achievement.”
Alejandro Sanz, maintains strong ties with Cádiz, where he has been named an adoptive son, he was a carnival crier and magician king, and a favorite of the province, which he collected this year, and where he remembered his father, a native of Algeciras, and his mother, a neighbor of the Cadiz municipality also not of Alcalá de los Gazules.
There, where part of his family lives and the singer spent long periods of time in his childhood, a public building is being prepared to become his museum.
The appointment of Alejandro Sanz as an “honoris causa” doctor coincides with a difficult personal moment for the artist, since on May 27 he revealed on his social networks that he was going through a difficult stage when he admitted that he was not feeling well.
However, these days he is reporting that the concert tour has already started this summer is helping him recover “like a medicine.”
