When former Latin Kings member Douglas León, known by the stage name Dogge Doggelito, was 28 years old, his wife Leonida died suddenly.
– We got married, bought a house, had children. Then she got sick with cancer. I came home from a gig and she said “I have three months left to live”, says Dogge now in “So much better”.
At the time, daughter Bianca was two years old.
– I couldn’t understand how life can just disappear so quickly. I got so depressed and sad, pulled out all the jackets, pulled down the blinds. I didn’t want to have contact with anyone. Not my family, not my mother, not the Latin Kings, says Dogge.
“It took a long time before I could accept what had happened”
The turnaround came after something the daughter said when she was 3-4 years old.
– It took a long time before I could accept what had happened. It was actually my daughter who turned it around. I drove her to daycare every day, and I cried all the way to daycare and all the way back. But one day my daughter says: “First you’re sad and then you’re happy,” he says.
– Then something happened inside me. If I don’t live myself, I must live for my daughter.
Bianca’s tribute to her father
In a feature, daughter Bianca now appears in So Much Better and speaks warmly of her father.
– Dogge is very lively, funny like dad. I would probably say that we are very close, we have always been close. After all, I’ve only had my father for as long as I can remember in my life. Much of what my father and I have been through together has made us two very strong individuals. We understand each other in a way that others don’t, she says and ends with a greeting:
– Hi dad! You never thought you’d see me here, but here I sit. And I wish you the best of luck in So much better, love you!
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