With sales of more than 100 million albums, Gabriel was Mexico's top selling artist. 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. During his career he wrote around 1,800 songs.
On August 28, 2016, Gabriel died from a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, while on tour in the U.S.
Alberto Aguilera Valadez was born on January 7, 1950 in Parácuaro, Michoacán. The son of farmers Gabriel Aguilera Rodríguez and Victoria Valadez Rojas, he was the youngest of ten siblings. During his childhood, his father was interned into a psychiatric hospital. 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. Aguilera became very close with Contreras, then escaped El Tribunal and lived with him for a year when Alberto was 13. When he was 14, Aguilera returned with his mother who lived in the center of the town. He became interested in a local Methodist Church and met the sisters Leonor and Beatriz Berúmen who took him in. There he sang in the choir and helped by cleaning the church.
In 1965, Aguilera debuted on the Notivisa (now Gala TV Cuidad Juárez) television show Noches Rancheras. Host Raúl Loya gave him the pseudonym Adán Luna. In the program, he sang the song "María la Bandida" by José Alfredo Jiménez. From 1966 to 1968, he started to work as a singer at the Noa-Noa bar. During this period, he wrote the song "El Noa Noa". He also worked as singer in other bars in the town. Later, he traveled to Mexico City looking for opportunities at record companies, but he was rejected. He returned to Juárez, where he continued working as a singer. 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. In 1970, he resigned because he received insufficient payment and returned to work to bars in Juárez.
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. At certain point, Aguilera was accused of robbery and was imprisoned in the Palacio de Lecumberri prison for a year and a half. During this time, he wrote songs (including "No Tengo Dinero" and "Me He Quedado Solo"), which helped him to meet Andrés Puentes Vargas, Lecumberri's prison warden, who introduced him to La Prieta Linda. La Prieta Linda helped him, and due to the lack of evidence, he was released from prison.
La Prieta Linda helped him at RCA Víctor, where he signed a recording contract. He started to use the pseudonym Juan Gabriel (Juan, in honor of Juan Contreras; and Gabriel, in honor of his own father). In 1971, Juan Gabriel released his first studio album El Alma Joven..., which included the song "No Tengo Dinero", which became his first hit. El Alma Joven... was certified as gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON).
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. 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. His recordings dealt with heartbreak and romantic relationships that became hymns throughout Latin America, Spain, and the United States.
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. 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. In 1990 Gabriel became the first commercial singer to perform at the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The proceeds from the three sold-out concerts were given to the National Symphony Orchestra. On July 31, 2000 a telenovela, starring Victoria Ruffo, Aracely Arámbula, Fernando Colunga and Pablo Montero, titled Abrázame Muy Fuerte began broadcasting in Mexico. Salvador Mejía, the producer, choose to use the song as its main theme. "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" ended 2001 as the best performing Latin single of the year. 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. The song ranked 7th at the Hot Latin Songs 25th Anniversary chart. "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" also was awarded for Pop Song of the Year at the 2002 Lo Nuestro Awards. 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. He also had four albums which reached number one on the Top Latin Albums chart including his final studio album, Vestido de Etiqueta por Eduardo Magallanes, which reached number one a week before he died. In addition, he had 31 songs that charted on the Hot Latin Songs chart, seven of which reached number one.
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. 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.
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."
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. 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. His death became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter after news reports were confirmed.President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto, called him one of Mexico's "greatest musical icons".
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. In 1987, Juan Gabriel founded Semjase, a house for orphaned and underserved children located in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It serves school children between the ages of 6 to 12.
Awards and achievements
Juan Gabriel's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
In 1986, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley declared October 5 "The Day of Juan Gabriel."
Received the Lo Nuestro Award Excellence Award in 1991.
Billboard, inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame 1996
ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award in 1995
A six time Grammy nominee
Sold 30 million copies of his albums
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
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.
Singer and Composer Juan Gabriel Takes home 4 Billboard Awards, 2002
Inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame.
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.
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Discography
Main article: Juan Gabriel discography
1971: El Alma Joven...
1972: El Alma Joven Vol.II
1973: El Alma Joven Vol.III
1974: Juan Gabriel con el Mariachi Vargas De Tecalitlán
1976: A Mi Guitarra
1976: Juan Gabriel con, Mariachi Vol. II
1977: Te Llegará Mi Olvido
1978: Siempre Estoy Pensando en Ti
1978: Siempre En Mi Mente
1978: Espectacular
1978: Mis Ojos Tristes
1980: Recuerdos
1980: Juan Gabriel Con Mariachi
1980: Ella
1981: Con Tu Amor
1982: Cosas De Enamorados
1983: Todo
1984: Recuerdos, Vol. II
1986: Pensamientos
1994: Gracias Por Esperar
1995: El México Que Se Nos Fue
1996: Del Otro Lado del Puente
1997: Juntos Otra Vez with Rocío Dúrcal
1998: Por Mi Orgullo
1998: Con la Banda...El Recodo with Banda el Recodo
1999: ¡Románticos! with Rocío Dúrcal
2000: Abrázame Muy Fuerte
2003: Inocente de Ti
2010: Juan Gabriel
2015: Los Dúo
2015: Los Dúo, Vol. 2
2016: Vestido de Etiqueta por Eduardo Magallanes
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.
Caray
Juan Gabriel Lyrics
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Aquel tiempo cuando yo te lo propuse
No estarías hoy sufriendo ni llorando
Por aquel humilde amor que yo te tuve, caray
Cuando te tuve cuando te tuve, caray
Cuando te tuve cuando te tuve
Aquel tiempo cuando yo te lo propuse
No estarías hoy sufriendo ni llorando
Por aquel humilde amor que yo te tuve, caray
Cuando te tuve cuando te tuve, caray
Cuando te tuve cuando te tuve
Pero tú me abandonaste por ser pobre
Te casaste con un viejo que es muy rico
Y lloré, y llore y lloré
Noche tras noche caray
Noche tras noche, caray
Noche tras noche
Ahora soy yo quien vive feliz
Formé un hogar cuando te perdí
Después, después yo te olvidé y te perdoné
Y no puedo hacer
Ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti
Con el tiempo a ti también te abandonaron
Y ahora vives infeliz y desgraciada
Muy sola y muy triste te dejaron
Y sin dinero, sin él, sin mí, sin nada caray
Sin sin dinero caray, sin mí, sin nada
Con el tiempo a ti también te abandonaron
Y ahora vives infeliz y desgraciada
Muy sola y muy triste te dejaron
Y sin dinero, sin él, sin mí, sin nada caray
Sin sin dinero caray, sin mí, sin nada
Todo por casarte con un rico
Hoy sabes que el dinero no es la vida
Ni la felicidad, pero muy tarde caray
Lo has comprendido caray, lo has comprendido
Ahora soy yo quien vive feliz
Formé un hogar cuando te perdí
Después, después yo te olvidé y te perdoné
Y no puedo hacer
Ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti
Ahora soy yo quien vive feliz
Forme un hogar cuando te perdí, después
Yo te perdoné, y no puedo hacer
Ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti
The song "Caray" by Juan Gabriel tells a story about a man who once loved a woman and proposed to her, but she chose to marry a rich old man instead. The lyrics suggest that if she had chosen to marry him instead, she would not be suffering or crying in her current situation. The repetition of "cuando te tuve" (when I had you) emphasizes the singer's regret and longing for what could have been in their past relationship.
The second verse reveals that the singer had been heartbroken when she left him for someone with more money, and he had cried night after night. However, with time, he was able to move on and form a happy family. The third verse reveals that the woman's current situation is not any better, as she too has been abandoned and left with nothing. The chorus repeats, "sin sin dinero caray, sin mi, sin nada" (without money, without me, without anything) which emphasizes the idea that money does not equal happiness, and the singer suggests that the woman has learned this lesson too late.
Overall, the song "Caray" is a reflection on lost love, regret, and the consequences of choosing money over true love. It illustrates that relationships should not be based solely on material possessions and that true happiness cannot be bought.
Line by Line Meaning
Si nosotros nos hubiéramos casado
If we had gotten married
Aquel tiempo cuando yo te lo propuse
At that time when I proposed to you
No estarías hoy sufriendo ni llorando
You wouldn't be suffering or crying today
Por aquel humilde amor que yo te tuve, caray
Because of that humble love I had for you, damn
Cuando te tuve cuando te tuve, caray
When I had you, when I had you, damn
Pero tú me abandonaste por ser pobre
But you left me because I was poor
Te casaste con un viejo que es muy rico
You married an old man who is very rich
Y lloré, y llore y lloré
And I cried, and cried, and cried
Noche tras noche caray
Night after night, damn
Ahora soy yo quien vive feliz
Now I am the one who lives happily
Formé un hogar cuando te perdí
I formed a home when I lost you
Después, después yo te olvidé y te perdoné
Later on, I forgot about you and forgave you
Y no puedo hacer
And I can't do
Ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti
Nothing for you anymore, nothing for you anymore, nothing for you anymore
Con el tiempo a ti también te abandonaron
Over time, you were also abandoned
Y ahora vives infeliz y desgraciada
And now you live unhappy and miserable
Muy sola y muy triste te dejaron
They left you very alone and sad
Y sin dinero, sin él, sin mí, sin nada caray
And without money, without him, without me, without anything, damn
Sin sin dinero caray, sin mí, sin nada
Without money, damn, without me, without anything
Todo por casarte con un rico
All because you married a rich man
Hoy sabes que el dinero no es la vida
Today you know that money is not life
Ni la felicidad, pero muy tarde caray
Nor happiness, but it's too late, damn
Lo has comprendido caray, lo has comprendido
You have understood, damn, you have understood
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Alberto Aguilera Valadez
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@marcelaordonez2034
Sí nosotros nos hubiéramos casado...
Aquel tiempo cuando yo te lo propuse, no estarías hoy sufriendo, ni llorando
Por aquel humilde amor que yo te tuve
¡Caray cuando te tuve! ¡Caray cuando te tuve!
Sí nosotros nos hubiéramos casado... aquel tiempo cuando yo te lo propuse, no estarías hoy sufriendo, ni llorando por aquel humilde amor que yo te tuve
¡Caray cuando te tuve!
¡Caray cuando te tuve!
Pero tu me abandonaste por ser pobre, te casaste con un viejo que es muy rico
¡Y lloré, lloré, lloré! Noche trás noche ¡Caray! Noche trás noche ¡Caray! Noche trás noche...
Ahora soy yo quién vive feliz, formé un hogar
Cuando te perdí, después, después yo te olvide... Y te perdone
Y no puedo hacer... ¡Ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti...!
Con el tiempo a ti también te abandonaron
Y ahora vives infeliz y desgraciada, muy sola y muy triste te dejaron
¡Y sin dinero, sin él y sin mi, sin nada
¡Caray! sin, sin dinero... ¡Caray! sin, sin nada...
Con el tiempo a ti también te abandonaron y ahora vives infeliz y desgraciada, muy sola y muy triste te dejaron ¡Y sin dinero, sin él y sin mi, sin nada
¡Caray! sin, sin dinero... ¡Caray! sin, sin nada...
Todo por casarte con un rico hoy sabes que el dinero no es la vida, ni la felicidad, pero muy tarde ¡Caray! Lo has comprendido ¡Caray! Lo has comprendido
Ahora soy quién vive feliz formé un hogar cuando te perdí después, después yo te olvide y te perdone... Y no puedo hacer... ¡Ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti...!
Ahora soy yo quién vive feliz formé un hogar cuando te perdí después...
Yo te perdone y no puedo hacer ¡Ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti, ya nada por ti...!
@mariaoramas2018
Waooo me encanta esta cancion de juan Gabriel Soy su fans amo sus canciones cuantas canciones tendra Juan Gabriel
- Caray
- Amor Eterno
- Me nace del corazón
- No Tengo dinero
- Querida
- Hasta que te Conoci
- Noa Noa
- La Frontera
- Asi fue
- He Venido a pedirte perdon
- El Farsante
- Se Me Olvido Otra Vez
- No vale la pena Corazón
- Yo no naci para Amar
- Abrazame muy fuerte amor
- Esta noche voy a verla
- Inocente pobre Amigo
- Esta rosa roja
- Que Sea en Mi Condena
- Siempre en mi mente
- No me vuelvo a enamorar
- Porque me haces llorar
- Te Voy A Olvidar
Adoro los exitos de Juan Gabriel que en paz descanse 1950 - 1972
@CarlosVargas-cn7rx
Soy Rockero.
Pero, Juan Gabriel, es Juan Gabriel.
¡¡¡Que grande sos!!!
@celostia
Carlos Vargas soy heavymetalero y recuerda que por cada cancion de Alberto Aguilera hay mas d 100k de nuestra tribu urbana
@kakashi-recargado5033
Soy un vale madres, pero juanga es la mera neta
@duvanramirez6397
me fasina la musica de juan
@ramseslopezsalazar1339
Hermosa cancion :)
@guztavoIsLs
yo soy metalero y lo ecucho gracias por mi madre
@darwinminaya9678
Dejare este comentario por aqui para que cuando alguien me le de like me yegue la notificacion , y asi poder volver escuchar esta hermosa cancion
@musicapopulardeespana6738
Yo nací en Colombia , pero los Mexicanos nacemos donde se nos da la gana !
¡VIVA MÉXICO!
@sareesandoval5621
SIIIIIIIIII, VIVA 🎉
@jorgedelgado4915
Pura lumbre🔥