- Published: Jan. 15, 2025, 5:00 a.m.
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Country music star Raul Malo is taking some well-earned time off to start the new year after undergoing an operation in December to aid in his battle against cancer.
The Mavericks frontman took to Instagram after the new year to announce the move.
“I wanted to catch you up on my health as we go through this journey,” Malo said in a video posted to the band’s account. “Some of you know that I had liver surgery on December 10th. They successfully removed a tumor from the liver, and we are going into the fourth week of recovery, and they said 4-to-6 weeks recovery which would of course take me into the timing of the cruise and so we just want to give you fair warning that we will not be on the cruise and we are really sorry about that. We love starting off the year with the cruise and some place warm and tropical and believe we could all use that.