Alberto Aguilera (Juan Gabriel) Died on 28th August 2016 in California

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On 28^th August 2016, the Mexican music legend Juan Gabriel has died due to severe heart attack at his home in Santa Monica, California. Gabriel was 66 years old and his real name was Alberto Aguilera Valadez. His songs were topped the charts in Mexico and various States, and at least 100 million records were sold during his career for performing, penning and producing songs of more than 40 years. He was born in Michoacan in a poor family. His mother moved to the border city of Ciudad Juárez with her ten children to find work as a maid. Gabriel was 4 years old when her mother sent him to a children’s home due to she was unable to take care of him.

 Gabriel wrote one of his most popular songs in his teenage, “Eternal Love” or Amor Eterno”. He slept at train stations and subways in Mexico City when he was a teenager. It was the time when he tried to make inroads into music business. He was also charged for robbery and sent to jail, he was writing good songs at that time but ended up in jail. He signed his first record contract and made his first major hit in 1971 with “No Tengo Dinero”.  One day, Alberto was selling tortillas on the street and singing a song when two Sisters Beatriz and Leonor, felt sorry and invited him so they teach him to read the Bible and to learn the spirit of singing to perform live with them, so he involved with the Berumen’s church. He avail a chance to visit a sister church in Lake Elsinore and discovered African American music. Alberto Aguilera Valadez (Juan Gabriel) was called up into Latin American Music Hall of Fame of Billboard in 1996.