Saltillo, Coahuila .- Alberto Aguilera Valadez, Juan Gabriel, died yesterday at age 66 in Santa Monica, California, victim of a heart attack.
The renowned composer of popular music classics as Querida Eternal Love, one of the most popular and beloved performers of the last decades in Mexico and throughout Latin America, was successfully presented at the Forum in Inglewood before more than 17 thousand 500 people. During her performance, the singer did not show any symptoms or signs of health problems.
Michoacano birth, but “adopted son” of Ciudad Juarez, from young man achieved worldwide fame thanks to his tenacity and talent as a composer . The so-called “Divo of Juarez” had announced his Méxxico Tour Is Everything 2016, with the thought travel around the country.
“Alberto Aguilera Valadez today completed his time and graduated from life “he says the mail delivered by one of its representatives. “It has become part of eternity and left us his legacy through Juan Gabriel”.
All legend
A life where reigned success and fame, but with dark passages where there were shortcomings, prison, problems with the IRS and even an allegation of sexual abuse was that of Alberto Aguilera Valadez, the man who was overshadowed by the figure that it forged with passion and tears: Juan Gabriel.
From that was, in its origins, dreams, feelings and ambitions, realizes the tape is My Life (1982), starring him as himself.
Alberto never he denied his humble origins. Born in Parácuaro, Michoacan, on January 7, 1950, was the smallest of the 10 children he had the marriage of Gabriel Aguilera Valadez Rodriguez and Victoria Rojas, he drover and her peasant.
The Mexican idol was still a baby when his father was detained in a psychiatric hospital in the capital, after causing a fire that damaged several private properties. This would mark the child’s life and the Aguilera family, because after that they moved to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, where Dona Victoria worked for many years as a maid, and given the scarcity of resources decided to hospitalize the small Alberto, who barely he reached fifth grade, and fled the boarding school, where he had met Mr. Juan Contreras, who taught music and was a mentor. Juan Gabriel: He completed his his father’s stage name was due.
But before that, in 1965 debuted as Adam Moon in Rancheras Nights program, and then came the time when he sang in the cabaret Noa Noa.
His hunger for fame drove him to go to Mexico City, where he not happened so well at first, having to sleep in public places, stage in which, as rumored recently, came to prostitute themselves to eat.
Accused of theft he went to Lecumberri, where he met Queta Jimenez ” La Prieta Linda ‘, who interceded for his release for lack of evidence, after get it, took him to the RCA, where he would make his first recordings, from 1971, gradually establishing itself as a new star of Mexico.
Throughout the 90 Juan Gabriel saw a stage of chiaroscuro, including a charge of tax evasion, but before that, in 1990 made history by presenting three nights in a row at the Palace of Fine Arts , where the album Live Juan Gabriel emerged from the Palace of Fine Arts, which set sales records and also released on video, something unusual for artists of the time.
Years later, in 2010, he was accused of sexual abuse by the son of a musician who collaborated with him in the United States. Juan Carlos Garcia, the alleged victim, alleged that she had been abused in the 1980s, when he was 15 years old. The lawsuit filed in a court in Los Angeles unsuccessful when Garcia was deported after being arrested on a drug charge
Over time also came more good times.; in 2012 he participated in the tribute to Chespirito “Chespirito”. Wearing a red and yellow outfit, reminiscent of the Chapulín Colorado, paid tribute to the prolific career of comedian with a special version of Mr Heart which included the iconic phrase “did not have my Wits”.
In 2013 he repeated the feat in the maximum enclosure of the capital’s culture, turning 40 years of experience with another concert in the palace that was reflected in the album My 40 in Fine Arts, 2014.
that same year transpired on the big screen once with the premiere of the film What did you say to God ?, Teresa Suarez, first musical based on his greatest hits and which made a special participation.
VERY RECOGNIZED
it was noted as a philanthropist, donating the proceeds of some of their presentations to children’s homes in Mexico and in 1987 founded Semjase, an orphanage for 120 children where they were taught music and which personally financed.
in 1985 the association of writers of shows in New York awarded him as the artist of the year. In 2009 he was inducted into the Walk of Stars of Las Vegas and the Latin Recording Academy, which awards the Latin Grammys, he was honored as Person of the Year in a ceremony marked by joy in which he poured wine and sang on a table.
iN tHE VOICE oF WOMEN
There are many singers who have to thank Juan Gabriel part of their success, as coincidently his most emblematic songs happen to be which he composed them
Inocente Pobre Amiga, played by Lupita D’Alessio.; No Dicutamos, by Lucha Villa; A banshee, sung by Lucia Mendez; That was, of Isabel Pantoja; or my Enamórate, Daniela Romo, are only examples.
mention deserves the binomial “The Divo of Juarez” settled for the Spanish Rocio Durcal, who worked with him on multiple albums, being the performer who became a posthumous hymn theme Eternal Love.
it was so little you Honey, Garland, you who were, Customs and so are the men, are just some of the themes of the bill Juanga that “The Spanish More Mexican” became big hits.
WHAT YOU SEE NO WONDER
The sexuality of Juanga, as it is also called, was always one of the factors that shaped its image. The answered the journalist Fernando del Rincón phrase, “what you see is not asked, m’ijo” assumed that the singer admitted he was gay, but refused to elaborate on the matter.
However, the Mexican star decided to adopt four children with her friend Laura Salas. In 2013 he renewed his will to appoint as executor to one of them: Ivan Gabriel. The others are Joan, Hans, Jean and Albert, all with the middle name Gabriel. He also adopted Alberto Aguilera II Junior, father of Hector Alberto Aguilera III, who died in 2012 in a Texas prison because of a drug overdose
a man foolproof
it is striking that, by coincidence of fate, the series until I met you, based on the life of Juan Gabriel, culminating in open chain the day of his death.
The production, by the artist himself, Disney Media Distribution Latin America, SOMOS Productions and BTF Media, recounts the vicissitudes that Juan Gabriel faced to become one of the greatest stars of national music .
“I was looking how to excel, he did not stay stuck; despite everything that happened in his life he was always positive and grateful, and when you and the universe smiles and sends you more things, “he said in an interview with Zocalo actor Carlos Yorvick, who played in the series” El Divo Juarez “when this was between 17 and 20 years.
The good reception that had until I met in Mexico he sought distribution in the United States and other Latin American countries, as revealed Yorvick Reforma Saturday.
“It has gone very well because, after he left for TNT, bought a canal in Colombia, then in Chile, Peru and Panama. It talks about people liking you. There is still no date for when begins on Telemundo, but since they are promotional close. It seems to be in October, “external actor to the Mexican agency.
During his visit to the capital of Mexico, on the occasion of promoting the end of the series in our country, Yorvick (who lives in Los Angeles) confessed that one of the experiences that most enjoyed working in the series was known to his colleagues and Julian Felipe Alejandro Roman, who also starred as Juan Gabriel in different stages of his life.
“I do love watching it … I got to see Alexander forum I was about three hours to see their work. That was carnita for me, for my costume fitting, and Julian saw him up in Michoacan.
“I approached him to talk and talked about the character, because he plays when Juan Gabriel opens. Based on body language, their movements it are very elegant, like a heron “
he recalled. However, Juanga never could approach him. He had only reason it through a producer, who told him that his work had liked a lot.
also came to film
Although the race Juan Gabriel focused on music was also involved in film and television. On the big screen she appeared in a dozen tapes, among which Nobleza Ranchera (1974), this spring (1976), Del otro lado del puente (1979), El Noa Noa (1980) and It’s My Life (1982) and What did you say to God? (2014).
The Noa Noa maintains a biographical view of the singer, from its beginning in the cabaret called Noa Noa, and includes the most interesting moments of his life as his childhood and some dramatic experiences such as loss his father and his musical knowledge and how it begins to gain popularity, while in is my life takes up the episode when went to jail after being accused of stealing belongings in the home of a new acquaintance.
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