In 1988 he wrote music for the film "Sur" and married the singer and television personality Laura Escalada on April 11. In May that year he recorded his album "La Camorra" in New York, a suite of three pieces, the last time he would record with the second Quinteto. During a tour of Japan with Milva he played at a concert at the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo on June 26, 1988, and that same year underwent a quadruple by-pass operation.