Dani Martín's father dies: “I was with him in his last moments with our hands held, it was the most healing thing”

The singer Dani Martín (49 years old, San Sebastián de los Reyes) announced this Friday that he was forced to cancel the concerts he had planned in Barcelona for that day and for this Saturday "due to an extremely serious family situation." This Saturday, October 24, the former El Canto del Loco vocalist reported on his Instagram account of the death of his father, José Manuel Martín, known as Manolo. "These two nights I had to hold your hand, Barna, but my father needed it. Urgently and without warning, I had to return from Barcelona to Madrid and be with him in his last moments with our hands held, it was the most healing thing," he wrote in a story published on a social network in which he has 1.5 million followers.

"I apologize for not being able to get on stage yesterday and today, but sometimes life rules. Thank you for the respect that has always been given to my family and myself. Fly high, captain!!!!", adds the Madrid singer in his writing, accompanied by a photo in which his father and his sister, who died unexpectedly in 2009, appear walking backwards. The artist has accompanied the publication of the song Captain, a song that he dedicated to his father and that belongs to the album Lo whatever I want.

"Due to an extremely serious family situation, Dani Martín will not be able to carry out the concerts scheduled for today and tomorrow in Barcelona. In the near future we will be able to communicate the rescheduling of these concerts. We apologize for all the inconvenience that this situation may cause," reported this Friday the team of the singer, who had to perform at the Palau Sant Jordi in the Catalan capital as part of the 25 f*ck years tour, with which he celebrates his quarter century of career and which It started in Madrid in November 2025.

After reporting the death of his father, the publication with which he announced the cancellation of his concerts yesterday has been filled with messages of support from his followers and also from colleagues, including those from the group Supersubmarina or the singer Dani Fernández.

The loss of his father is compounded by the death of his sister, Miriam, who died suddenly from a stroke in February 2009, when she was 34 years old. "I would have liked to have grieved my sister's death as a brother and not put myself in the role of father to my parents. I think that grieving has to be experienced and the blows have to be dealt with accordingly and that, sometimes, people are tougher and we try to overcome it," he explained in an interview with RTVE in October 2021. He also spoke about grieving in a Jordi Évole program: "It's a terrifying slap. It puts you in an unknown role, I started to be attentive to my family. I stopped being the little boy I was in El Canto del Loco to become a mature man because my sister was gone,” he said in the program broadcast in February of last year. "There was a time when I didn't want to talk about Míriam, but we have celebrated Christmas again. Now I talk about her, I love her very much, she was a wonderful veterinarian and a great girl. Very discreet, completely different from me," he said about who was once the inspiration for his first solo album: Pequeno (2010)—the year of his sister's sudden death coincided with the separation of the band he had led since 2000—.