My theory is that he accidentally started to say "head" or something but corrected himself. Harold from University Park, PaAnyone notice around the 3:00 mark Enrique appears to stutter on "have I lost my mind," saying what appears to be "have I lost my humminah mind" (he mutters something there).Kintu Goodwin Emmanuel from Ugandai like this song so much because it brings out the real meaning of love and feeling of passion towards someone you love.Your Comment send your comment Comments: 22 Or would you lie? Would you run and hide? Would you swear that you'll always be mine Or would you laugh? Oh, please tell me this This article was originally published at 3:30 p.m.Would you tremble if I touched your lips? Here’s how this family works.Ĩ p.m.: This article was updated with staff reporting.Ĥ:35 p.m.: This article was updated and rewritten throughout. Mother was deported to Mexico and her kids remain in the U.S. ‘Granny flats’ in Los Angeles are in legal limbo amid City Hall debate Times staff writers Matt Stevens and Emily Alpert Reyes and Cecilia Sanchez of The Times’ Mexico City bureau contributed to this report.įramed: She was the PTA mom everyone knew.
I enjoy every moment, because I believe that once we die, that’s it. “To make it, you have to be fully alive,” he said. Making music is all he needed to be happy, he said. At lunch with a Times reporter in Malibu in 1999, he said he wouldn’t care if he lost all his money. He was never coy when talking about music. His colorful outfits and flamboyant dance moves drew speculation about his sexuality, but Juan Gabriel preferred to remain coy on the issue. Juan Gabriel, who had four children, never married. In 2014, he was hospitalized with pneumonia after a Las Vegas show. “It’s hard when one of yours is gone.”Īlthough he continued to perform, Juan Gabriel suffered from health problems in recent years. “You knew a Juan Gabriel song when you heard it,” he said. She said she remembered singing his songs in her house while she was pregnant.įrank Marez, an Arroyo Grande resident who was in Los Angeles on Sunday for a Dodgers game, said Juan Gabriel made him proud to be Mexican-American. “I think all of us, Mexican or not, have scenes in our lives linked to Juan Gabriel’s songs,” Mexican journalist Peniley Ramirez wrote on Twitter. His songs were soundtracks for the lives of generations of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. “I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets and people have been my books,” he said after his induction into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame. Juan Gabriel credited his simple, soulful lyrics with his upbringing. “Look at my loneliness,” he sings in Spanish, his voice quivering. But he is best remembered for his ballads, such as Querida (“My Dear”), a 1984 love letter to a former lover considered by many fans to be his greatest hit. Juan Gabriel went on to become the best-selling artist in Mexican history, writing more than 1,000 songs for himself and other performers in a variety of styles that stretched from rock to disco and ranchera.Gabriel also dabbled in acting. In 1971 he released his first gold record, “No Tengo Dinero” (I’ve Got No Money). His voice turned heads, and soon he moved to Mexico City, where he scored his first recording contract. You know you want to be with your mother, and she is not there.”Īs a teenager, Juan Gabriel wrote songs in his head and sang them as he sold tortillas in the street. “You don’t know the word for ‘abandon’ at that age,” he told The Times.
He said his first memory in life was of his mother leaving him at an orphanage in the border city of Juarez. Juan Gabriel was born in 1950, the youngest of 10 children. “Mexican music must be defended with vigilance.… My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.” “American music has infiltrated the entire world enough as it is,” he told a Times reporter in 1999. But unlike other Latin music stars, such as Enrique Iglesias or Marc Anthony, he shied away from recording music in English and fiercely guarded his Mexican identity. Mis condolencias a sus familiares y amigos.- Enrique Peña Nieto August 28, 2016īorn Alberto Aguilera Valadez in Parácuaro, Michoacán, but better known by his stage name, Juan Gabriel spent most of his final decades living in the United States. Lamento la muerte de Juan Gabriel, uno de los grandes íconos musicales de nuestro país.