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A new podcast unearths details about the life of Mexican music representative Juan Gabriel
ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST:
His label was Juan Gabriel. He was one of Mexico's biggest stars, a prolific singer and songwriter, a Latin pop icon who racked up millions of record sales, wrote more than 1,500 songs and charted dozens of hits. On stage, he wore dark eyeliner, bright, bedazzled clothes. And his voice? It kept audiences hanging on every note.
(SOUNDBITE OF Lyric, "HASTA QUE TE CONOCI (LIVE)")
JUAN GABRIEL: (Singing in Spanish).
FLORIDO: By the second he died in 2016, Gabriel, affectionately known as Juanga, was a towering success, but his beginnings in Ciudad Juarez were nothing short of traumatic. He's the subject of a fresh podcast from Futuro Media called "My Divo," a nod to another of his nicknames, the divo of Juarez. Maria Garcia is the host of the show, and she joins me now. Maria, welcome.
MARIA GARCIA: Hi, Adrian. Thanks so much for having me.
FLORIDO: Thanks for joining us. You realize , for Latinos, Juan Gabriel was as big a icon as they arrive, impossible not to know him. But for our listeners who haven't heard of him, depict him for me.
GARCIA: Oh, my God. Well, t
Juan Gabriel Died One Year Ago: LGBTQ Latino Writers Reflect On His Impact
August 28 marks the first anniversary of the death of Juan Gabriel, one of the most beloved and well-liked Mexican singer-songwriters of the Spanish-speaking world. He will be remembered for the countless songs in various musical genres that own become iconic standards, for the rags to riches journey of his life story and for the energetic performances that endeared him to audiences across the globe, particularly in Latin America.
But for many LGBTQ Latinos, Juan Gabriel’s flashy personality on the stage offered a level of visibility to feminine mannerisms that were, for the most part, shunned by a culture of strict gender roles and machismo. Juan Gabriel transcended the dread of ridicule and exposure and somehow, he was and is still cherished.
Juan Gabriel — or Juanga — never officially came out as a gay guy. It was one of the longest open secrets in the entertainment industry — a don’t-ask-don’t-tell agreement in which his millions of fans were complicit. As a young performer, he evaded any insinuations about his sexual identity. But as he got older, he became coy with his response. “Lo que se ve no se The first song I ever loved was El Noa Noa by Juan Gabriel. My mother was so obsessed with it, the title became one of my first words. As toddlers, my minuscule brother and I danced by the record player, the only luxury for an immigrant family in Arizona, fresh from Mexico, comprehending at links to the border town we left. El Divo De Juarez was from our state, looked and sounded like us, and his log was one of the few belongings we brought. In the song, a male pleads the listener to go out dancing to a club called El Noa Noa. It’s a disco ballad with a region beat, the small key make it both an invitation and lament. In Mexican pop customs, the idea of “oldies” does not exist, songs are simply passed down, so mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins have danced to that tune for decades. When my brother and I came out of the closet and moved to San Francisco, departing our parents behind (as they had left their have parents), we packed that 45 write down. Playing it as adults, we finally noticed its delicate avoidance of pronouns, the serpentine lisp, the chorus that sang of a place where things were “different.” We realized one of the most famou I know there's been a lot of talk about Juan Gabriel, but today we'll give him another approach. It was surprising, for all those who follow Juan Gabriel, his death, beyond the product marketing: the artist, the musician, the brilliance that symbolized for the connoisseurs; In short; The phenomenon of Juan Gabriel transcends mere superficial questions and, above all, Juan Gabriel, who crossed what many "plastic artists" only contain as backing: fashion; then, condemned to dead fame. Juan Gabriel battered mentally in the taste of the public, supported especially by his work (they are told by a new university man who began to indulge his professionalism and talent since the 16 years). The phrase artist has been desecrated and today is used in the entertainment society in an irresponsible way for anyone who is simply promoted in the masses, regardless of whether what he does is art, is or not culture. That was Juan Gabriel, a promoter of excellence in each concert, in every production, a connoisseur. If he demanded, it is because he knew; he did not link his orchestras, his orchestras were coupled to him, for the simple proof that what he had of guarantee, was imposed
Juanga’s amor eterno