El siete de enero/January 7th
¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Juan Gabriel (Alberto Aguilera Valadez)! (1950-2016) "Music is mankind's way of thanking the universe for letting us be here." -Juan Gabriel Photo from Billboard's write-up on Juan Gabriel's cover of Creedence Clearwater's Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Gracias al sol) several months before his death. Click HERE to read and listen. A Mexican singer, songwriter, and actor, and "the actual king of Latin pop" who was idolized by younger performers such as Marc Anthony, Juan Gabriel was adored by fans worldwide. He put out some 2,000 songs during his lifetime and sold out multiple concerts. He was not always as well-known by English-language speakers in the U.S., however, and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's wonderful 1999 profile of him in the L.A. Times (updated when he died in 2016 -- click HERE to read) includes a story about a West Hollywood a...