September 13, 2024 • 27 mins
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Join us for the emotional finale of our Juan Gabriel journey as we pay tribute to the beloved icon's life and legacy. In this episode, as we mourn his passing, we revisit the touching moments of his funeral, where millions gathered to honor his memory and celebrate his extraordinary contributions to music and culture in that same place where he played and charmed thousands: Bellas Artes. As Juanga himself used to say: “As long as someone keeps singing my songs, Juan Gabriel will live forever.”
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https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-becoming-an-icon-108605757/
Join us for the emotional finale of our Juan Gabriel journey as we pay tribute to the beloved icon's life and legacy. In this episode, as we mourn his passing, we revisit the touching moments of his funeral, where millions gathered to honor his memory and celebrate his extraordinary contributions to music and culture in that same place where he played and charmed thousands: Bellas Artes. As Juanga himself used to say: “As long as someone keeps singing my songs, Juan Gabriel will live forever.”
Lilliana Vazquez and Joseph Carrillo are the hosts of Becoming An Icon with production support by Nick Milanes, Rodrigo Crespo, Santiago Sierra, Ameyalli Negrete and Bettina López of Sonoro Media in partnership with iHeart Radio's My Cultura Podcast network.
If you want to support the podcast, please rate and review our show.
Follow Lilliana Vazquez on Instagram and Twitter @lillianavazquez
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Directed, Joseph, are you ready to say.
Speaker 10 (02:07):
Goodbye, Braki Messes your right.
Speaker 11 (02:13):
You and me both, Baby, I mean you and me both.
We've seen one Gabriel through his highs and lows. Out
of a childhood filled with abandonment and loss, Wanga emerged
with a song in his heart, and.
Speaker 10 (02:26):
Our boy touched the hearts of everyone around him with
his voice.
Speaker 12 (02:29):
Whether he was on the streets of what Is slinging
borritos with his mother or doing undeserved time inside a
prison ceuth, Wanga.
Speaker 11 (02:38):
Was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but
during his lowest low, the right person heard his voice
and carried him to stardom.
Speaker 10 (02:48):
Hiki, that's the dream right, absolutely.
Speaker 11 (02:51):
One Gabriel is the picture of rads to riches, perseverance.
Anyone who's experienced hardship can find hope in his story.
He's an ever man in glittering tassels, the.
Speaker 10 (03:02):
Most fabulous phoenix rising from the Ashley and rise.
Speaker 11 (03:07):
He did decade after decade, selling millions of records worldwide
to become Mexico's most successful musical artist.
Speaker 12 (03:17):
And at the height of Kwangat's fame, he let the
world know who he was with a wink and a smile,
and the fans stood by their man.
Speaker 11 (03:27):
In two thousand, Wanga set an attendance record with a
string of shows at Mexico City's Zokalo Public Square, and
in two thousand and two he set a record for
the longest concert at seven hours.
Speaker 12 (03:39):
Oh my God, like literally, my AB's hurt just thinking
of that. And finally, in two thousand and six, he
received the Golden Garland and Universal Excellence Award from the
King of Espana, commemorating his thirty five year career.
Speaker 11 (03:54):
But the most fitting tribute to Wanga might have come
nine years later. That's when low Guwatis artist Arthuro Damasco
painted a mural featuring a young Wanga on a nine
story building in the singer's hometown on the US Mexico border,
the same city where he sang his songs and sold
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those famous.
Speaker 12 (04:15):
Burritos okay Otravez Maas says, way, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
but you know what, You're not alone.
Speaker 11 (04:24):
It was just a year later that the world would
say goodbye to one Gabriel. In The New York Times,
Kirk Semple and Elizabeth malkoln would write, it is difficult
to overstate the popularity in Mexico of Onan Gabriel, whose
music topped a deeply sentimental lane in Mexican culture. His
appeal transcended regional, racial and class boundaries in an otherwise
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stratified and fractured society.
Speaker 12 (04:50):
His music was played at children's birthday parties and the
wedding anniversaries of retirees. It provided the soundtrack for joyous occasions.
Speaker 10 (04:57):
And just as much for heartbreak.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
Today we're taking a closer look at the legacy of
one Gubian.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
I'm your host, Lilliana Ooscaz.
Speaker 10 (05:12):
And I'm Joseph Carrio and This is Becoming an Icon a.
Speaker 11 (05:16):
Weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on how
today's most famous latinv stars have shaped pop culture.
Speaker 10 (05:23):
And given the world some extra tubble.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Sit back and get comfortable.
Speaker 10 (05:28):
Because we are going in the only way we know
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Speaker 9 (05:33):
Whenas, I'm Buenasriesas.
Speaker 11 (05:36):
And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest
achievements on our journey to find out what makes them
so iconic. The first thing we think about when we
think about legacy, especially as latinos is family.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
Okay, but say it again, but this time Vin Diesel Family. Wait,
I thought it was it familia? Yes?
Speaker 11 (06:06):
Anyway, moving right along, family loomed large for One Go Too.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Which makes sense right.
Speaker 12 (06:14):
He never knew his biological father and things were always
complicated with his mom, and he.
Speaker 11 (06:20):
Lost his mother just when his career was really taking
off in nineteen seventy four, which understandably had a major
impact on him. According to hardcore one gu fans, one
of his most beloved songs, amore Ferno, was written in
honor of his mom.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Am damn, that's all I'm gonna sing, look at you?
I try.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
And when he actually performs that song for his album
at the Palacio de es Adis in Mexico in nineteen ninety,
he actually dedicates the song to all the mothers in
the audience. I almost cried watching that performance on YouTube,
Like as a mom, I was like, will Santi love
me this much?
Speaker 10 (07:03):
Oh my god?
Speaker 11 (07:06):
All right, So we know that Guanga was never ashamed
of his humble beginnings. Around the same time that his
mother passed away, he started making monthly donations of twenty
five thousand dollars to an orphanage.
Speaker 12 (07:19):
In seventies money honey, that is a lot of Netflix subscriptions.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
He also adopted a twelve year old boy from the
same orphanage and gave him his own name, Alberto Aguilera Junior.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
What bury the lead much?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
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Speaker 9 (07:34):
That is just the beginning.
Speaker 11 (07:37):
Did you know that Juan Gabriel was an early pioneer
in vitro fertilization or IVF something I know way too
much about.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
We shut your butt, Okay, explain.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
All right, Okay, So here's how it goes.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
So one Gabriel didn't want to go on without ever
knowing what it was like to father a child, so
he approached his best friend's sister, Laua Salas about artificial insemination.
So the two agreed to undergo the procedure completely out
of the public eye, and so in nineteen eighty eight,
Ivan Gabriel was born.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Huh, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
Hold on, guys, we need to give Joseph a small
break to process all of this new information.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
We will hold for you.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Like somebody gave me some juice or something.
Speaker 12 (08:27):
Okay, wow, okay, So before Ricky Martin, before Sir Elton John,
before Phoebe from Friends, before Beyonce. Okay, just kidding, Juan
Gabriel had a baby with a Syracuse.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
You were such a shady fucker, And the answer is yes.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Our man was a pioneer in many ways, and once
his dream of fatherhood came true, he decided to adopt
three more children from the same orphanage he'd been supporting
for years. Juan Gabiel, Joan Hans Gabriel, and Joan Gabriel
Aguilera Salas.
Speaker 10 (09:07):
Oh my god, all of these same names. They all
sound like Juang Gabriel. But anyways, that sounds like one big,
happy family.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
Right Well, that's the sad part.
Speaker 11 (09:19):
Tragedy touched his family in twenty twelve, his grandson died
of a drug overdose. After that one, Gabriel and his
eldest Alberto, grew distant, and that's without even getting into
all the current legal.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
Drama between the kids.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Bad hurts.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Wanga also went through so.
Speaker 11 (09:39):
Much pain early in his life, and that's probably what
he saw in Alberto Junior at the orphanage. He gave
him his own name after all, and listen, as high
as you can fly, no one leaves all of that
behind without.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
A scar or two.
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And determination is how Kamala Harris.
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When facedood challenges, I have learned there is no option
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Speaker 6 (11:41):
Because life keeps happening, baby, But you got this.
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Speaker 9 (12:31):
It's August twenty sixth, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 11 (12:34):
The Forum, which seats seventeen and a half thousand people,
is packed, and so is the three hundred and sixty
degree stage. In the middle of the crowd, an eighty
piece ensemble including fifty mariaci and orchestral musicians, ten singers,
twenty dancers all wow the roaring.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Crowd with just one man at the center of it.
Speaker 12 (12:54):
All one man in fabulous blue mariachi attire, sitting on
the throne with lions on the armrests.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
This is the third stop on Juan Gabriel's Mexico Est
Goo Tour, a twenty two date sprint through the US
with knights in Vegas, Miami, Dallas and.
Speaker 10 (13:13):
Brooklyn Barclays Center.
Speaker 11 (13:16):
Baby, you might call it a victory lap because earlier
that year he had won Top Latin Album at the
Billboard Music Awards. For Billboard, grise Le Flores wrote he
didn't waste any minute of the night and started off
with some of his classics, including Buns Jura, assifue Ino, Sentemio,
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and Costumbres. The latter included an homage to the late
Spanish singer Rossilla Lurgal, whose photo appeared on the screen
while Gabriel sang his track made popular by Urgal, My Heart.
Wanga also kept up with the times, inviting Colombian Reggaetndo
Sona Prieta on stage for a modernized take on No
(13:58):
Tengo di Neto.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
And he even did a Credence Clearwater revival cover.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
Wow, our boy is just always full of surprises.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
Well, when you're touring the US, you got to throw
one out for the classic rock deals in the crowd.
After an incredible setlist touring through past and present, Wanga
closed with his earliest hit, Noah Noah, No.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
No Noah, so good.
Speaker 12 (14:24):
I was going to do that.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
I mean, you can't not sing it, and as the
music faded, the crowd was left with the message on
towering screens saying congratulations to all the people that are
proud to be who they are.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
Okay, seriously, how many times are you going to make
me cry to day?
Speaker 9 (14:41):
You better stop We're almost done, I promise.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
After his incredible show at the Forum, Wangab returned to
a beachside apartment he owned in Santa Monica to rest
up for his next show in your hometown Joseph el Paso, Texas,
a city that shares a border with his hometown of
What Is.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
But tragically, Wanga would never make it to that show.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
On Sunday, August twenty eighth, eleven seventeen Pacific time, Juan
Gabriel passed away due to acute myocardial failure the very
morning before he was set to take the stage for
a hometown crowd.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
He was only sixty six years old. Oh my god,
oh too young, too soon.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
Do you remember where you were when you heard the news.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
I don't remember exactly where I was.
Speaker 11 (15:32):
But what really surprised me was kind of the title
wave of post on social media about him, because let's
just say, like, my audience is really varied, right, Like
I have all kinds of people that I follow and
that follow me, and one Gabriel isn't an artist or
a conversation that I'm having a lot on social or
(15:54):
that people are citing on social But what was crazy
is all of my feed was one Gabriel.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
I was like, wait a second, I'm not the only
one got fan.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
Like all of these people who I never suspected liked
his music, grew up with his music, were then sharing it.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
And I thought that just goes to show.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
You the power of his impact and how wide his
legacy reached to this day.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
Yeah, where were do you remember?
Speaker 10 (16:19):
You know what? I don't.
Speaker 12 (16:21):
I don't, but I just remember that the sea is
the DM day, like the Independence, I remember it being
all Likehuangy's stuff. So it was just kind of like
almost a month after he died and it was all Huangy.
So I just kind of remember there was a lot
of tributes and all that stuff because I partied in
Tuatus and I remember that, but I didn't remember like
he died in August. I didn't have that type of recollection.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (16:41):
I think for me, it was seeing so many social
posts and the fact that it was trending on now
Expec then Twitter just made me think, wow, like his
impact is huge, like it's global and people are talking
about it. And it made me so happy because it
took me back to my grandma. His music always takes
me back to my grandmother, and I had lost my
grandmother the year before, and so I think for me
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it was just like a really nice way to like
relive that moment where I saw her really enjoying music
as it was meant to be enjoyed, right, Like, it
wasn't about church, it wasn't about praise or faith or prayer.
It was just music to have fun and dance and
sing and feel for yourself. So it was that I
think that really made me kind of like smile after
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I dealt with all of my sadness.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
And the loss.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
Combe's Mexico tour was tragically cut short, but his legacy
would live on.
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Speaker 11 (20:06):
The funeral Forjuan Gabriel was an event of public mourning. Impersonators, dancers,
and admirers gathered from the Palacio de Bellas Artist where
Wanga recorded his first live album, to the historic center
of Mexico City to say goodbye.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
Wreaths of flowers adorned the steps of the palace, gifts
from the President of Mexico and from close friends of Guanga,
such as singer Luis Miguein. People lined up by the
thousands to be the artist's ashes, which had arrived from
Sida Fads.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Around five in the afternoon, Ivan Gabriel Aguilera Salas placed
his father's urn on a pedestal in the palace lobby,
engraved with the image of the Virgen de Guadalupe.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
The initials AA V were engraved in cursive lettering Quangabriel's
birth name, Alberto Aguilera Valadez.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
In a tribute that was broadcast across the country, the
Mexican tenor Fernando la Mora, along with Wanga's backing band Madiacimitiere,
performed a more terno, the song Juangabriel had dedicated to
all the mothers in attendance at the very same by
Lacio de Bellas Artis decades prior.
Speaker 12 (21:12):
The tributes continued with performances from Ida Cuevas, Lucia Mendez,
and Daniella Romo, who had all collaborated with punkab Di.
La Sonora Santana, a musica tropical orchestra had been a
mainstay in Mexico since the nineteen sixties, also played for
the late.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Quangas one hundred and thirty thousand what insants gathered around
his house to mourn together, and years later they still
celebrate him on the anniversary of his passing by gathering
around his house, which is now cared for by a
fan whom Wanga had met at one of his concerts
and who he personally asked to take care.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Of his house.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
All say it again, Haikei the dream also take a shot.
I'm crying again.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Okay, we are definitely listening to Wanga when we're done here,
followed by Huanga Carrie nothing Better. Five years after One
Gabriel's death, Roberto Jose Andrade Franco would write in Rolling
Stone of the singer's relationship to his hometown. Even if
this is a different, what is than the one one
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Gabriel grew up in. Even if he's not physically here,
his presence remains.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
He's still the one who made it out and never
forgot where he came from, The.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
One who, in doing that, made the goals and dreams
of everyone here that much more realistic.
Speaker 12 (22:31):
The one who told everyone who'd listened that even if
pain and hurt were part of life, it was also
full of beauty and wonder.
Speaker 11 (22:39):
Wonder the one whose songs on days like these mournful
anniversaries come from what sounds like every part of the
city city, even without the accolades.
Speaker 12 (22:50):
Which just for the record, six Grammy nominations, three posthumous wins,
an induction into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame,
four number one albums on the Billboard Latin Chart, over
a hundred million album sold.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
It would be a massive understatement to call Onan Gabriel
one of the Latin world's biggest icons.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
He's once in a generation icon.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Stats, but like the kind of icon that every generation needs.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I think.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
One of my favorite quotes on Wang Gabriel's legacy is
from Gustavo Ariano. He's the author of the syndicated column
Aska Mexican in the La Times. He wrote, Mexican boys
are taught to ridicule Wan Gabriel. Mexican men learn to
respect the legend. He redefined masculinity as only a sequence
and silk loving man could. But Wanga's truest legacy is
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not his music. It's what he represented personal freedom.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Like living authentically yourself is so so so hard, and
we've got to see him do it.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
He did the thing he did, the thing he came
to live his life.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
And I think what's amazing is that when you look
back at the time when these songs came out, like
we are the children of the people that Juangabriel was
writing for performing for. You know, that was his generation,
and it's our generation that has really taken advantage and
been able to use his declaration of freedom and independence
(24:28):
of living authentically to our best interests. Right like we
are that generation. It wasn't our parents. Our parents couldn't
do this shit. We barely did it. And then our
kids are going to like live, you know, especially as Latinos.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Well, my kid isn't going to live. My plants are
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Speaker 11 (24:49):
An icon like Wanga lives on in his music. Just
a few blocks from his nine story mural and what
is a statue of him bears an inscription that reads,
miandras aigens Juan Gabriel vividra.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
As long as someone keeps singing my songs, Juan Gabriel
will live forever.
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Join us right here next week as we dive into
the story of another.
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Icon, the Queen of salsa cursel Sen groups.
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Goodbye, Braki Messes your right.
Speaker 11 (02:13):
You and me both, Baby, I mean you and me both.
We've seen one Gabriel through his highs and lows. Out
of a childhood filled with abandonment and loss, Wanga emerged
with a song in his heart, and.
Speaker 10 (02:26):
Our boy touched the hearts of everyone around him with
his voice.
Speaker 12 (02:29):
Whether he was on the streets of what Is slinging
borritos with his mother or doing undeserved time inside a
prison ceuth, Wanga.
Speaker 11 (02:38):
Was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but
during his lowest low, the right person heard his voice
and carried him to stardom.
Speaker 10 (02:48):
Hiki, that's the dream right, absolutely.
Speaker 11 (02:51):
One Gabriel is the picture of rads to riches, perseverance.
Anyone who's experienced hardship can find hope in his story.
He's an ever man in glittering tassels, the.
Speaker 10 (03:02):
Most fabulous phoenix rising from the Ashley and rise.
Speaker 11 (03:07):
He did decade after decade, selling millions of records worldwide
to become Mexico's most successful musical artist.
Speaker 12 (03:17):
And at the height of Kwangat's fame, he let the
world know who he was with a wink and a smile,
and the fans stood by their man.
Speaker 11 (03:27):
In two thousand, Wanga set an attendance record with a
string of shows at Mexico City's Zokalo Public Square, and
in two thousand and two he set a record for
the longest concert at seven hours.
Speaker 12 (03:39):
Oh my God, like literally, my AB's hurt just thinking
of that. And finally, in two thousand and six, he
received the Golden Garland and Universal Excellence Award from the
King of Espana, commemorating his thirty five year career.
Speaker 11 (03:54):
But the most fitting tribute to Wanga might have come
nine years later. That's when low Guwatis artist Arthuro Damasco
painted a mural featuring a young Wanga on a nine
story building in the singer's hometown on the US Mexico border,
the same city where he sang his songs and sold
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those famous.
Speaker 12 (04:15):
Burritos okay Otravez Maas says, way, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
but you know what, You're not alone.
Speaker 11 (04:24):
It was just a year later that the world would
say goodbye to one Gabriel. In The New York Times,
Kirk Semple and Elizabeth malkoln would write, it is difficult
to overstate the popularity in Mexico of Onan Gabriel, whose
music topped a deeply sentimental lane in Mexican culture. His
appeal transcended regional, racial and class boundaries in an otherwise
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stratified and fractured society.
Speaker 12 (04:50):
His music was played at children's birthday parties and the
wedding anniversaries of retirees. It provided the soundtrack for joyous occasions.
Speaker 10 (04:57):
And just as much for heartbreak.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
Today we're taking a closer look at the legacy of
one Gubian.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
I'm your host, Lilliana Ooscaz.
Speaker 10 (05:12):
And I'm Joseph Carrio and This is Becoming an Icon a.
Speaker 11 (05:16):
Weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on how
today's most famous latinv stars have shaped pop culture.
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And given the world some extra tubble.
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Sit back and get comfortable.
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Because we are going in the only way we know
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Whenas, I'm Buenasriesas.
Speaker 11 (05:36):
And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest
achievements on our journey to find out what makes them
so iconic. The first thing we think about when we
think about legacy, especially as latinos is family.
Speaker 10 (05:56):
Okay, but say it again, but this time Vin Diesel Family. Wait,
I thought it was it familia? Yes?
Speaker 11 (06:06):
Anyway, moving right along, family loomed large for One Go Too.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Which makes sense right.
Speaker 12 (06:14):
He never knew his biological father and things were always
complicated with his mom, and he.
Speaker 11 (06:20):
Lost his mother just when his career was really taking
off in nineteen seventy four, which understandably had a major
impact on him. According to hardcore one gu fans, one
of his most beloved songs, amore Ferno, was written in
honor of his mom.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Am damn, that's all I'm gonna sing, look at you?
I try.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
And when he actually performs that song for his album
at the Palacio de es Adis in Mexico in nineteen ninety,
he actually dedicates the song to all the mothers in
the audience. I almost cried watching that performance on YouTube,
Like as a mom, I was like, will Santi love
me this much?
Speaker 10 (07:03):
Oh my god?
Speaker 11 (07:06):
All right, So we know that Guanga was never ashamed
of his humble beginnings. Around the same time that his
mother passed away, he started making monthly donations of twenty
five thousand dollars to an orphanage.
Speaker 12 (07:19):
In seventies money honey, that is a lot of Netflix subscriptions.
Speaker 11 (07:24):
He also adopted a twelve year old boy from the
same orphanage and gave him his own name, Alberto Aguilera Junior.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
What bury the lead much?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
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Speaker 9 (07:34):
That is just the beginning.
Speaker 11 (07:37):
Did you know that Juan Gabriel was an early pioneer
in vitro fertilization or IVF something I know way too
much about.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
We shut your butt, Okay, explain.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
All right, Okay, So here's how it goes.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
So one Gabriel didn't want to go on without ever
knowing what it was like to father a child, so
he approached his best friend's sister, Laua Salas about artificial insemination.
So the two agreed to undergo the procedure completely out
of the public eye, and so in nineteen eighty eight,
Ivan Gabriel was born.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Huh, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
Hold on, guys, we need to give Joseph a small
break to process all of this new information.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
We will hold for you.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Like somebody gave me some juice or something.
Speaker 12 (08:27):
Okay, wow, okay, So before Ricky Martin, before Sir Elton John,
before Phoebe from Friends, before Beyonce. Okay, just kidding, Juan
Gabriel had a baby with a Syracuse.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
You were such a shady fucker, And the answer is yes.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Our man was a pioneer in many ways, and once
his dream of fatherhood came true, he decided to adopt
three more children from the same orphanage he'd been supporting
for years. Juan Gabiel, Joan Hans Gabriel, and Joan Gabriel
Aguilera Salas.
Speaker 10 (09:07):
Oh my god, all of these same names. They all
sound like Juang Gabriel. But anyways, that sounds like one big,
happy family.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
Right Well, that's the sad part.
Speaker 11 (09:19):
Tragedy touched his family in twenty twelve, his grandson died
of a drug overdose. After that one, Gabriel and his
eldest Alberto, grew distant, and that's without even getting into
all the current legal.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
Drama between the kids.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Bad hurts.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Wanga also went through so.
Speaker 11 (09:39):
Much pain early in his life, and that's probably what
he saw in Alberto Junior at the orphanage. He gave
him his own name after all, and listen, as high
as you can fly, no one leaves all of that
behind without.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
A scar or two.
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It's August twenty sixth, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 11 (12:34):
The Forum, which seats seventeen and a half thousand people,
is packed, and so is the three hundred and sixty
degree stage. In the middle of the crowd, an eighty
piece ensemble including fifty mariaci and orchestral musicians, ten singers,
twenty dancers all wow the roaring.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Crowd with just one man at the center of it.
Speaker 12 (12:54):
All one man in fabulous blue mariachi attire, sitting on
the throne with lions on the armrests.
Speaker 11 (13:03):
This is the third stop on Juan Gabriel's Mexico Est
Goo Tour, a twenty two date sprint through the US
with knights in Vegas, Miami, Dallas and.
Speaker 10 (13:13):
Brooklyn Barclays Center.
Speaker 11 (13:16):
Baby, you might call it a victory lap because earlier
that year he had won Top Latin Album at the
Billboard Music Awards. For Billboard, grise Le Flores wrote he
didn't waste any minute of the night and started off
with some of his classics, including Buns Jura, assifue Ino, Sentemio,
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and Costumbres. The latter included an homage to the late
Spanish singer Rossilla Lurgal, whose photo appeared on the screen
while Gabriel sang his track made popular by Urgal, My Heart.
Wanga also kept up with the times, inviting Colombian Reggaetndo
Sona Prieta on stage for a modernized take on No
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Tengo di Neto.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
And he even did a Credence Clearwater revival cover.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
Wow, our boy is just always full of surprises.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
Well, when you're touring the US, you got to throw
one out for the classic rock deals in the crowd.
After an incredible setlist touring through past and present, Wanga
closed with his earliest hit, Noah Noah, No.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
No Noah, so good.
Speaker 12 (14:24):
I was going to do that.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
I mean, you can't not sing it, and as the
music faded, the crowd was left with the message on
towering screens saying congratulations to all the people that are
proud to be who they are.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
Okay, seriously, how many times are you going to make
me cry to day?
Speaker 9 (14:41):
You better stop We're almost done, I promise.
Speaker 11 (14:45):
After his incredible show at the Forum, Wangab returned to
a beachside apartment he owned in Santa Monica to rest
up for his next show in your hometown Joseph el Paso, Texas,
a city that shares a border with his hometown of
What Is.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
But tragically, Wanga would never make it to that show.
Speaker 11 (15:07):
On Sunday, August twenty eighth, eleven seventeen Pacific time, Juan
Gabriel passed away due to acute myocardial failure the very
morning before he was set to take the stage for
a hometown crowd.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
He was only sixty six years old. Oh my god,
oh too young, too soon.
Speaker 10 (15:26):
Do you remember where you were when you heard the news.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
I don't remember exactly where I was.
Speaker 11 (15:32):
But what really surprised me was kind of the title
wave of post on social media about him, because let's
just say, like, my audience is really varied, right, Like
I have all kinds of people that I follow and
that follow me, and one Gabriel isn't an artist or
a conversation that I'm having a lot on social or
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that people are citing on social But what was crazy
is all of my feed was one Gabriel.
Speaker 9 (16:00):
I was like, wait a second, I'm not the only
one got fan.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
Like all of these people who I never suspected liked
his music, grew up with his music, were then sharing it.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
And I thought that just goes to show.
Speaker 11 (16:11):
You the power of his impact and how wide his
legacy reached to this day.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
Yeah, where were do you remember?
Speaker 10 (16:19):
You know what? I don't.
Speaker 12 (16:21):
I don't, but I just remember that the sea is
the DM day, like the Independence, I remember it being
all Likehuangy's stuff. So it was just kind of like
almost a month after he died and it was all Huangy.
So I just kind of remember there was a lot
of tributes and all that stuff because I partied in
Tuatus and I remember that, but I didn't remember like
he died in August. I didn't have that type of recollection.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (16:41):
I think for me, it was seeing so many social
posts and the fact that it was trending on now
Expec then Twitter just made me think, wow, like his
impact is huge, like it's global and people are talking
about it. And it made me so happy because it
took me back to my grandma. His music always takes
me back to my grandmother, and I had lost my
grandmother the year before, and so I think for me
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it was just like a really nice way to like
relive that moment where I saw her really enjoying music
as it was meant to be enjoyed, right, Like, it
wasn't about church, it wasn't about praise or faith or prayer.
It was just music to have fun and dance and
sing and feel for yourself. So it was that I
think that really made me kind of like smile after
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I dealt with all of my sadness.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
And the loss.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
Combe's Mexico tour was tragically cut short, but his legacy
would live on.
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Speaker 11 (20:06):
The funeral Forjuan Gabriel was an event of public mourning. Impersonators, dancers,
and admirers gathered from the Palacio de Bellas Artist where
Wanga recorded his first live album, to the historic center
of Mexico City to say goodbye.
Speaker 12 (20:20):
Wreaths of flowers adorned the steps of the palace, gifts
from the President of Mexico and from close friends of Guanga,
such as singer Luis Miguein. People lined up by the
thousands to be the artist's ashes, which had arrived from
Sida Fads.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Around five in the afternoon, Ivan Gabriel Aguilera Salas placed
his father's urn on a pedestal in the palace lobby,
engraved with the image of the Virgen de Guadalupe.
Speaker 12 (20:45):
The initials AA V were engraved in cursive lettering Quangabriel's
birth name, Alberto Aguilera Valadez.
Speaker 11 (20:54):
In a tribute that was broadcast across the country, the
Mexican tenor Fernando la Mora, along with Wanga's backing band Madiacimitiere,
performed a more terno, the song Juangabriel had dedicated to
all the mothers in attendance at the very same by
Lacio de Bellas Artis decades prior.
Speaker 12 (21:12):
The tributes continued with performances from Ida Cuevas, Lucia Mendez,
and Daniella Romo, who had all collaborated with punkab Di.
La Sonora Santana, a musica tropical orchestra had been a
mainstay in Mexico since the nineteen sixties, also played for
the late.
Speaker 11 (21:27):
Quangas one hundred and thirty thousand what insants gathered around
his house to mourn together, and years later they still
celebrate him on the anniversary of his passing by gathering
around his house, which is now cared for by a
fan whom Wanga had met at one of his concerts
and who he personally asked to take care.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Of his house.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
All say it again, Haikei the dream also take a shot.
I'm crying again.
Speaker 11 (21:53):
Okay, we are definitely listening to Wanga when we're done here,
followed by Huanga Carrie nothing Better. Five years after One
Gabriel's death, Roberto Jose Andrade Franco would write in Rolling
Stone of the singer's relationship to his hometown. Even if
this is a different, what is than the one one
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Gabriel grew up in. Even if he's not physically here,
his presence remains.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
He's still the one who made it out and never
forgot where he came from, The.
Speaker 11 (22:25):
One who, in doing that, made the goals and dreams
of everyone here that much more realistic.
Speaker 12 (22:31):
The one who told everyone who'd listened that even if
pain and hurt were part of life, it was also
full of beauty and wonder.
Speaker 11 (22:39):
Wonder the one whose songs on days like these mournful
anniversaries come from what sounds like every part of the
city city, even without the accolades.
Speaker 12 (22:50):
Which just for the record, six Grammy nominations, three posthumous wins,
an induction into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame,
four number one albums on the Billboard Latin Chart, over
a hundred million album sold.
Speaker 11 (23:05):
It would be a massive understatement to call Onan Gabriel
one of the Latin world's biggest icons.
Speaker 10 (23:13):
He's once in a generation icon.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Stats, but like the kind of icon that every generation needs.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I think.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
One of my favorite quotes on Wang Gabriel's legacy is
from Gustavo Ariano. He's the author of the syndicated column
Aska Mexican in the La Times. He wrote, Mexican boys
are taught to ridicule Wan Gabriel. Mexican men learn to
respect the legend. He redefined masculinity as only a sequence
and silk loving man could. But Wanga's truest legacy is
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not his music. It's what he represented personal freedom.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Like living authentically yourself is so so so hard, and
we've got to see him do it.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
He did the thing he did, the thing he came
to live his life.
Speaker 11 (24:04):
And I think what's amazing is that when you look
back at the time when these songs came out, like
we are the children of the people that Juangabriel was
writing for performing for. You know, that was his generation,
and it's our generation that has really taken advantage and
been able to use his declaration of freedom and independence
(24:28):
of living authentically to our best interests. Right like we
are that generation. It wasn't our parents. Our parents couldn't
do this shit. We barely did it. And then our
kids are going to like live, you know, especially as Latinos.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Well, my kid isn't going to live. My plants are
going to live. They're going to live authentically. Okay, don't
judge me.
Speaker 11 (24:49):
An icon like Wanga lives on in his music. Just
a few blocks from his nine story mural and what
is a statue of him bears an inscription that reads,
miandras aigens Juan Gabriel vividra.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
As long as someone keeps singing my songs, Juan Gabriel
will live forever.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Join us right here next week as we dive into
the story of another.
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Icon, the Queen of salsa cursel Sen groups.
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Thanks for listening and we'll catch you here next week
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