"Juan Gabriel: I Must, I Can, I Will."
"almost a national symbol,"
"Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s, [was] a deeply conservative, macho and homophobic country. Then suddenly, this figure appears, someone who manages to win over every social class, every kind of audience, even the most macho man," Cuevas said."
Juan Gabriel was born Alberto Aguilera Valadez and experienced abandonment after his father’s mental illness. His mother placed him in a children’s home at age five, where he was introduced to music and wrote his first song. He fled the home at 14 and became a promising performer in Ciudad Juarez’s nightlife. He released his first album in 1971, composed over 1,500 songs, and toured to sold-out crowds for decades. Public fascination grew around his ambiguous sexuality. He recorded the last 45 years of his life with handheld cameras and tape recorders, and that footage became the basis for a four-part Netflix documentary.
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