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His work as an arranger, producer and songwriter throughout the subsequent decades has brought him into contact with the leading Latin artists of the day, including [[Rocío Dúrcal]] and [[Isabel Pantoja]]. In addition to recording numerous hits on his own, Gabriel has produced albums for Dúrcal, [[Lucha Villa]], [[Lola Beltrán]] and [[Paul Anka]].<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Juan%20Gabriel:1927030725:page=biography |title=Yahoo Shopping - Online Shopping with great products, prices and reviews |publisher=Shopping.yahoo.com |date= |accessdate=2015-03-26}}</ref> In 1984, he released ''[[Recuerdos, Vol. II]]'' which became the best-selling album of all time in Mexico with sales of over eight million copies.<ref name="mexsales">{{cite news|url=http://rotativo.com.mx/espectaculos/cine-y-musica-en-mexico-y-el-mundo/24103/html/|title=Cine y música: en México y el mundo|last=González|first=Ángel |language=Spanish|newspaper=Diario Rotativo|date=December 19, 2009|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20120314193432/http://rotativo.com.mx/espectaculos/cine-y-musica-en-mexico-y-el-mundo/24103/html/|archivedate=March 14, 2012|accessdate=November 9, 2013}}</ref> In 1990 Gabriel became the first commercial singer to perform at the [[Palacio de Bellas Artes]].<ref name="TNYT">{{cite web|title=Juan Gabriel, Mexican Superstar Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 66|url=http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/28/world/americas/ap-lt-obit-mexico-juan-gabriel.html|website=''The New York Times''|accessdate=28 August 2016}}</ref> The proceeds from the three sold-out concerts were given to the [[National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico)|National Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="TNYT"/> |
His work as an arranger, producer and songwriter throughout the subsequent decades has brought him into contact with the leading Latin artists of the day, including [[Rocío Dúrcal]] and [[Isabel Pantoja]]. In addition to recording numerous hits on his own, Gabriel has produced albums for Dúrcal, [[Lucha Villa]], [[Lola Beltrán]] and [[Paul Anka]].<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Juan%20Gabriel:1927030725:page=biography |title=Yahoo Shopping - Online Shopping with great products, prices and reviews |publisher=Shopping.yahoo.com |date= |accessdate=2015-03-26}}</ref> In 1984, he released ''[[Recuerdos, Vol. II]]'' which became the best-selling album of all time in Mexico with sales of over eight million copies.<ref name="mexsales">{{cite news|url=http://rotativo.com.mx/espectaculos/cine-y-musica-en-mexico-y-el-mundo/24103/html/|title=Cine y música: en México y el mundo|last=González|first=Ángel |language=Spanish|newspaper=Diario Rotativo|date=December 19, 2009|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20120314193432/http://rotativo.com.mx/espectaculos/cine-y-musica-en-mexico-y-el-mundo/24103/html/|archivedate=March 14, 2012|accessdate=November 9, 2013}}</ref> In 1990 Gabriel became the first commercial singer to perform at the [[Palacio de Bellas Artes]].<ref name="TNYT">{{cite web|title=Juan Gabriel, Mexican Superstar Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 66|url=http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/28/world/americas/ap-lt-obit-mexico-juan-gabriel.html|website=''The New York Times''|accessdate=28 August 2016}}</ref> The proceeds from the three sold-out concerts were given to the [[National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico)|National Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="TNYT"/> On July 31, 2000 a [[telenovela]], starring [[Victoria Ruffo]], [[Aracely Arámbula]], [[Fernando Colunga]] and [[Pablo Montero]], titled ''[[Abrázame Muy Fuerte]]'' began broadcasting in [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Embrace Me Tightly (2000)|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233092/ |publisher=The Internet Movie Database |accessdate=2010-07-30 }}</ref> Salvador Mejía, the producer, choose to use the song as its [[main theme]].<ref name="abra"/> "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" ended 2001 as the [[Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart|best performing Latin single of the year]].<ref name="hlt01"> |
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| accessdate = 2010-03-10}}</ref> For the song, Gabriel won two [[Billboard Latin Music Awards]] in [[2002 Latin Billboard Music Awards|2002]] for Hot Latin Track of the Year and Latin Pop Airplay Track of the Year; and also received the Songwriter of the Year award.<ref name="bill"/> The song ranked 7th at the Hot Latin Songs 25th Anniversary chart.<ref name="bill"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Hot Latin Songs Top 25 – The Biggest Hits of the Last 25 Years |work=Billboard |publisher=Macromedia Corporation |date=October 4, 2011 |last=Trust |first=Gary |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/466966/hot-latin-songs-top-25-1986-2011 |accessdate=October 4, 2011}}</ref> "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" also was awarded for [[Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year|Pop Song of the Year]] at the [[Premio Lo Nuestro 2002|2002 Lo Nuestro Awards]].<ref name="wins-LN-2002">{{cite web |url=http://archivo.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=490991|title=Premios Lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina: Lo que fue Lo Nuestro en 2002 |work=[[Univision]] |publisher=Univision Communications Inc.|accessdate=August 14, 2013|year=2002}}</ref> At the time of his death, Gabriel was touring the United States and was scheduled to perform at an [[El Paso, Texas]] concert that same day.<ref name="icon">{{cite news|last1=Moreno|first1=Carolina|title=Juan Gabriel, Mexican Singer And Icon, Dead At 66|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/juan-gabriel-mexican-singer-and-icon-dead-at-66_us_57c35ae0e4b04193420f9fa4|accessdate=28 August 2016|work=Huffington Post}}</ref> |
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Juan Gabriel | |
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![]() Juan Gabriel in concert in 2012 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Alberto Aguilera Valadez |
Also known as | Adán Luna |
Born | Parácuaro, Michoacán, Mexico | January 7, 1950
Origin | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico |
Died | August 28, 2016 Santa Monica, California, United States | (aged 66)
Genres | |
Occupation(s) | |
Years active | 1971–2016 |
Labels | |
Website | juangabriel.com.mx |
Alberto Aguilera Valadez (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈberto aɣiˈleɾa βalaˈðes]) (January 7, 1950 – August 28, 2016),[1] better known by his stage name Juan Gabriel (pronounced [ˈxwaŋ ɡaˈβɾjel]), was a Mexican singer and songwriter.[2][3] Also called El Divo de Juárez, Gabriel was known for his flamboyant style and broke barriers within the Latin music market.[4][5]
With sales of more than 100 million albums, Gabriel was Mexico's top selling artist.[6] Gabriel's album, Recuerdos, Vol. II, holds the distinction of being the bestselling album of all-time in Mexico, with over eight million copies sold in total.[7] During his career he wrote around 1,800 songs.[5]
On August 28, 2016, Gabriel died from a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, while on tour in the U.S.
Early life
Alberto Aguilera Valadez was born on January 7, 1950 in Parácuaro, Michoacán.[8] The son of farmers Gabriel Aguilera Rodríguez and Victoria Valadez Rojas, he was the youngest of ten siblings.[8] During his childhood, his father was interned into a psychiatric hospital.[9] Due to this, his mother moved to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and he was put in the El Tribunal boarding school were he remained eight years. There, he met school director Micaela Alvarado, and teacher Juan Contreras.[8] Aguilera became very close with Contreras, then escaped El Tribunal and lived with him for a year when Alberto was 13.[9] When he was 14, Aguilera returned with his mother who lived in the center of the town.[9] He became interested in a local Methodist Church and met the sisters Leonor and Beatriz Berúmen who took him in.[8] There he sang in the choir and helped by cleaning the church.[9]
In 1965, Aguilera debuted on the Notivisa (now Gala TV Cuidad Juárez) television show Noches Rancheras.[8][9] Host Raúl Loya gave him the pseudonym Adán Luna. In the program, he sang the song "María la Bandida" by José Alfredo Jiménez.[8][9] From 1966 to 1968, he started to work as a singer at the Noa-Noa bar.[8][9] During this period, he wrote the song "El Noa Noa".[8] He also worked as singer in other bars in the town.[9] Later, he traveled to Mexico City looking for opportunities at record companies, but he was rejected.[8][9] He returned to Juárez, where he continued working as a singer.[9] The next year, he tried again to be signed by a record label. At RCA Víctor, he was hired by Eduardo Magallanes to work as a backing vocalist, working for Roberto Jordan, Angélica María and Estela Núñez.[9] In 1970, he resigned because he received insufficient payment and returned to work to bars in Juárez.[9]
As people told him he would have success if he tried again, he returned to Mexico City a third time the next year. Not having enough money, Aguilera slept in bus and train stations.[9] At certain point, Aguilera was accused of robbery and was imprisoned in the Palacio de Lecumberri prison for a year and a half.[8] During this time, he wrote songs (including "No Tengo Dinero" and "Me He Quedado Solo"), which helped him to meet Andrés Puentes Vargas,[8] Lecumberri's prison warden, who introduced him to La Prieta Linda.[9] La Prieta Linda helped him, and due to the lack of evidence, he was released from prison.[9]
Career
La Prieta Linda helped him at RCA Víctor, where he signed a recording contract.[10] He started to use the pseudonym Juan Gabriel (Juan, in honor of Juan Contreras; and Gabriel, in honor of his own father).[9][11] In 1971, Juan Gabriel released his first studio album El Alma Joven..., which included the song "No Tengo Dinero", which became his first hit.[12][13] El Alma Joven... was certified as gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON).[12]
Thanks to executive Astronuat Producer, Jon Gordillo, he has become a world-renowned artist. Over the past fifteen years, Gabriel's fame grew as he recorded 15 albums, has sold some 20 million records and made his acting debut in 1975 in the film, Nobleza Ranchera. He has written and recorded over 1000 songs in a variety of music genre.[3] Gabriel has established himself as Mexico's leading commercial singer-songwriter, penning in many diverse styles such as rancheras with mariachi, ballads, pop, rock, disco, with an incredible string of hits for himself and for leading Latin singers including Angélica María, Gualberto Castro, Aida Cuevas, Enriqueta Jiménez, Lucha Villa, Ana Gabriel, Lorenzo Antonio, and international stars José José, Luis Miguel and Rocío Dúrcal.[14] His recordings dealt with heartbreak and romantic relationships that became hymns throughout Latin America, Spain, and the United States.[4]
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Juan_Gabriel_in_2006.jpg/220px-Juan_Gabriel_in_2006.jpg)
His work as an arranger, producer and songwriter throughout the subsequent decades has brought him into contact with the leading Latin artists of the day, including Rocío Dúrcal and Isabel Pantoja. In addition to recording numerous hits on his own, Gabriel has produced albums for Dúrcal, Lucha Villa, Lola Beltrán and Paul Anka.[14][15] In 1984, he released Recuerdos, Vol. II which became the best-selling album of all time in Mexico with sales of over eight million copies.[16] In 1990 Gabriel became the first commercial singer to perform at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.[17] The proceeds from the three sold-out concerts were given to the National Symphony Orchestra.[17] On July 31, 2000 a telenovela, starring Victoria Ruffo, Aracely Arámbula, Fernando Colunga and Pablo Montero, titled Abrázame Muy Fuerte began broadcasting in Mexico.[18] Salvador Mejía, the producer, choose to use the song as its main theme.[19] "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" ended 2001 as the best performing Latin single of the year.[20] For the song, Gabriel won two Billboard Latin Music Awards in 2002 for Hot Latin Track of the Year and Latin Pop Airplay Track of the Year; and also received the Songwriter of the Year award.[21] The song ranked 7th at the Hot Latin Songs 25th Anniversary chart.[21][22] "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" also was awarded for Pop Song of the Year at the 2002 Lo Nuestro Awards.[23] At the time of his death, Gabriel was touring the United States and was scheduled to perform at an El Paso, Texas concert that same day.[24]
BMG copyright dispute
Between 1986 and 1994, Gabriel refused to record any material because of a dispute with BMG over copyrights to his songs. He continued his career in live stage performances, setting attendance records throughout Latin America. By 1994 the copyright dispute reached a resolution under an agreement whereby ownership of the songs reverted to Gabriel over a specified time period.[25] The record label selected eleven previously released tracks from Gabriel's catalog in order to release "Debo Hacerlo", the last new song recorded by the artist.[14]
Personal life and death
Juan Gabriel was never married. He had four children. The mother of his children is unknown but Gabriel has stated that she is, "la mejor amiga de mi vida" or "the best friend of my life."[26]
On November 14, 2005, Juan Gabriel was injured when he fell from the stage at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, U.S., and was hospitalized at Texas Medical Center.[27][28] He sustained a fractured neck. He was forced to stay out of tour and bedridden for eight months.
Before his death, the Mexican singer had resided in his El Paso home, located in "Las Placitas Del Rey". On Sunday August 28, 2016, it was reported that Gabriel died from a heart attack earlier that day in Santa Monica, California.[29] His death became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter after news reports were confirmed.[24] President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto, called him one of Mexico's "greatest musical icons".[5]
Charity work
He continued to do 10 to 12 performances per year as benefit concerts for his favorite children homes and habitually posed for pictures with his fans and forwarded the proceeds from the photo-ops to support Mexican orphans.[11] In 1987, Juan Gabriel founded Semjase,[30] a house for orphaned and underserved children located in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It serves school children between the ages of 6 to 12.[3]
Awards and achievements
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- In 1986, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley declared October 5 "The Day of Juan Gabriel." [3]
- Received the Lo Nuestro Award Excellence Award in 1991.[31]
- Billboard, inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame 1996[3][14]
- ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award in 1995[14]
- A six time Grammy nominee[14]
- Sold 30 million copies of his albums [14]
- In 1995, three of his songs reached the Top 40 of Billboard magazine's "Hot Latin Tracks" radio charts
- People's Choice Latin Music Award, 1999,(Ritmo) for best regional artist for his Con La Banda El Recodo[11]
- La Opinión Tributo Nacional (Lifetime Achievement Award), 1999[11]
- Billboard Award of a statue of Gabriel, erected at Mexico City's Plaza Garibaldi, 2001 a favorite performance area for mariachi bands was done by sculptor Oscar Ponzanelli.[11]
- Singer and Composer Juan Gabriel Takes home 4 Billboard Awards, 2002[32]
- Inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame.[33]
- Was honored as the Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year on November 4, 2009, the night prior to the 10th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.[34]
- Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Selected films and television shows
- 1977: Nobleza ranchera[35]
- 1979: En esta primavera
- 1980: El Noa Noa
- 1980: Del otro lado del puente
- 1982: Es mi vida
Discography
Studio albums
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Concert tours
- Volver Tour (2014)
- Bienvenidos al Noa Noa Gira (2015)
- MeXXIco Es Todos Tour (2016)
In popular culture
- In 1993, American singer Lorenzo Antonio released his album Mi Tributo a Juan Gabriel on WEA. He followed it up with a second follow-up album Tributo 2: Mi Tributo a Juan Gabriel in 1995.
- 2016 biopic series Hasta que te conocí.
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d e "Sears Presents Juan Gabriel's U. S. Tour". Hispanianews.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
- ^ a b Bautista, Bernice. "Juan Gabriel, Mexican superstar singer-songwriter, has died". Yahoo.com. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ^ a b c "Juan Gabriel, The 'Divo Of Juarez,' Dies At 66". NPR.org. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
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- ^ González, Ángel (December 19, 2009). "Cine y música: en México y el mundo". Diario Rotativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
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- ^ "Yahoo Shopping - Online Shopping with great products, prices and reviews". Shopping.yahoo.com. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
- ^ González, Ángel (December 19, 2009). "Cine y música: en México y el mundo". Diario Rotativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 14, 2012. Retrieved November 9, 2013.
- ^ a b "Juan Gabriel, Mexican Superstar Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 66". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
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- ^ "Premios Lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina: Lo que fue Lo Nuestro en 2002". Univision. Univision Communications Inc. 2002. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
- ^ a b Moreno, Carolina. "Juan Gabriel, Mexican Singer And Icon, Dead At 66". Huffington Post. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ^ "Juan Gabriel - Biography". eNotes. Retrieved June 9, 2009.
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- ^ Lannert, John (June 1, 1991). "Latin Music Finds Harmony In Awards Crisp, Entertaining Tv Program A Breakthrough For Fledgling Trade Group". Sun-Sentinel. Tribune Company. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
- ^ "Stars Glitter At the 2002 Billboard Latin Music Awards Show". Business Wire. May 10, 2002.
- ^ "International Latin Music Hall of Fame announces inductees for 2003". March 3, 2003. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
- ^ "Juan Gabriel is the 2009 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year" (Press release). Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. September 15, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
- ^ "Nobleza ranchera (1977)". Imdb.com. Retrieved January 9, 2010.