Alberto Aguilera Valadez (Parácuaro, Michoacán, January 7, 1950-Santa Monica, California, United States, August 28, 2016), better known as Juan Gabriel, was a songwriter, actor, composer, performer, musician, record producer and Mexican philanthropist, also known with the nickname of "the diva of Juárez". His contributions to the popular music in America in different genres like ballad, ranchera, bolero, pop, northern music, rumba flamenca, huapango, chicana music, salsa, mariachi band, sinaloense band, disco, big band and even Cradle he wrote to each of his children. It was worthy of the recognition of multiple Spanish-American generations that since 1971 like their compositions. It was the main bastion of contemporary Mexican regional music in the last third of the twentieth century until the moment of his death.
Juan Gabriel endowed a particular and daring label to popular Mexican and Latin American music, thanks to his unique and captivating interpretive style. Of the lineage of the showmen, Juan Gabriel managed to consolidate like the artist more constant and famous in the last 50 years in Mexico. A fundamental figure of the music in Spanish, is the composer that more registered songs have in the SACM (Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico) and the one that more economic resources generates by concept of royalty to that association.
His compositions have been translated into languages as diverse as Turkish, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Tagalog, Greek, Papiamento, Portuguese and English and have been performed by over 1500 artists and groups around the world. He is the most sung Spanish composer worldwide. His sales as an interpreter, more than 150 millions of albums sold, they add 75 million copies as record producer and 45 million more by the high sales of his musical realizations to the Side of the Spanish Rocío Dúrcal, with whom it conformed a musical pair recognized and successful in Latin America.
His subjects in his voice or that of his hundreds of interpreters sound approximately every 40 seconds in the radio and / or television media in Latin America. He is the Mexican artist with the most reproductions on YouTube, and the Latin artist who sold the most tickets of his performances in the United States, made more than 15 000 presentations all over the world during 45 years of musical trajectory. Among the many awards and recognitions he received, in 1986 the mayor of Los Angeles decreed October 5 as "the day of Juan Gabriel," and the singer also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ]
He was also known for carrying out works designed to offer opportunities for development to unfortunate children. He was benefactor of more than one hundred children housed in a called school "Semjase", created in 1987 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Juan Gabriel died at age 66 on August 28, 2016 because of an infarct2 in Santa Monica, California, United States, while developing his tour "Mexico is everything
