This Friday, May 17, it arrived in theaters Disco, Ibiza, Locomía, the film directed by Kike Maíllo that narrates the beginnings of the legendary Spanish band that achieved fame in the eighties and nineties. The premiere It took place in Madrid’s Capitol cinemas and prominent personalities from the film, music and fashion industries were present, and of course the leading actors, such as Jaime Lorente, who plays Xavier Font, founder of Locomía. Font himself, 60, did not want to miss the film’s premiere either. It was a day to remember and celebrate, but the leader of the group also decided to take advantage of all those spotlights and cameras to reveal less pleasant news: that he suffers from prostate cancer. “I said it because we have to remove the taboo on cancer a little. “I have prostate cancer and it is better to be there than somewhere else,” he acknowledged in front of the microphone. Europa Press during the event.
Font assures that he has decided to talk about his illness to “give visibility” to cancer, as he commented in his statements with complete naturalness and taking the edge off the matter. “I don’t have a problem, I’m happy, I’m going to remove a part of my organ that doesn’t work and that’s it, and I’m going to continue, I’m here for time,” added the Barcelona artist.
In 2022 it premiered on Movistar + Locomy, a documentary series about the rise, fall and redemption of the group with Font’s own story as the common thread. It explains the imprisonment of the leader of the gang, who in 2012 was sentenced to three years in prison for drug trafficking – in the end he spent three months in prison and obtained the open regime for good behavior -, or his feud with he manager of the group, José Luis Gil. His has not been a bed of roses, but as he commented in his talk during the premiere of the new film, Font considers himself “a fighter” and is very optimistic. “You rise from difficulties. I am happy and I feel good, and I am going to get through this too, as I have been through so many things. In this life you have to fight, always. I am a fighter. I have done it with that idea, so that people understand that we are here and that I am going to continue, there is nothing more,” he stated.
The new production narrates the ins and outs of club culture, the golden age of record labels, the Madrid Movida night, the fan phenomenon and the explosion of Latin music in Miami (USA) through a group of friends who, Without having the slightest idea of singing, they begin a career that leads them to live like hippies in Ibiza, to fill stadiums in Latin America and to revolutionize nightclubs around the world. The members of Locomía, with Font at the helm, created a new style, were pursued by fans and earned millions.
Jaime Lorente is accompanied in the cast by Alberto Ammann, Alejandro Speitzer, Ivan Pellicer, Pol Granch, Javier Morgade, Albert Baró, Gonzalo Ramírez, Eva Llorach and Blanca Suárez, among others. For Font, it is a film that has made him cry a lot and laugh even more, according to what he told Europa Press. “I am happy and content, in love (he has been married for more than five years to Harold González, an artist of Cuban origin and 35 years his junior whom he has designated as heir to the Locomía brand when he dies) and eager to continue, “This is one more part of what is to come,” he confessed.
