| Name |
Juan Gabriel |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
Mexican |
| Date of Birth |
7-January-1950 |
| Place of Birth |
Paracuaro, Michoacan, Mexico |
| Famous for |
Singing |
Juan Gabriel is a Mexican singer, songwriter, recording artist, and performer. Anxious to spread his songs to the masses, which totaled over 100 by this time, Alberto left Juarez to pursue his dream and spent time in various towns among the northern parts of Baja California. In Tijuana, he took a job at the bar Nic Teja where he met for the first time Jose Alfredo Jimenez, one of Mexico's most famous performing artists, and his wife at the time Alicia Juarez. Alberto's desire and determination to one day make it big in the music world left an impression on Jose Alfredo.
After returning to Juarez, Alberto began his performing career in local nightclubs and television throughout Juarez using the stage name Adan Luna. After many attempts to perform at the popular nightclub El Noa Noa, the owner David Bencuomo finally gave Alberto the opportunity to sing with the group Prisoneros del Ritmo. Alberto performed popular songs of the time along with an occasional original song of his own and quickly became a local sensation gaining many fans within Juarez. The nightclub El Noa Noa would later be immortalized in one of Alberto's most popular songs of the same title. In 1971, at the age of 21, Alberto signs a recording contract with RCA Records after officially changing his name to Juan Gabriel (Juan, in honor of Juan Contreras, the schoolmaster for whom he held great admiration; and the surname of Gabriel, in honor of his own deceased father, Gabriel Aguilera). Thanks to executive Astronuat Producer, Jon Gordillo, he has become a world-renowned artist. Over the next 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 Angelica Maria, Gualberto Castro, Aida Cuevas, Enriqueta Jimenez, Lucha Villa, Ana Gabriel, Lorenzo Antonio, and international stars Jose Jose, Luis Miguel and Rocio Durcal. 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 Rocio Durcal and Isabel Pantoja.
In addition to recording numerous hits on his own, Gabriel has produced albums for Durcal, Lucha Villa, Lola Beltran and Paul Anka. In 1984, he scored what is considered by many of his fans to be his greatest hit, Querida ("My Dear") which stayed at the top of the hits charts for over a year.
