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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, bench do not get me started. I am

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Speaker 1: We're kicking off season two with none other than Elivo himself.

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Speaker 3: El Divo like opera singers, No, whoa?

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Speaker 1: What would they be doing here? I'm becoming an icon?

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Speaker 3: Okay, just kidding, I know El Divo there is we.

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Speaker 1: Are talking about One Gabriel.

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Speaker 2: If you're a Mexican, you definitely know Huanky's with that

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Speaker 1: One Gabriel is a legendary icon.

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Speaker 3: Can you believe?

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Speaker 2: It has been eight years since he's passed, but his

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. I mean Wanghi's was present at Maibodha,

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Speaker 3: One million? P? Three?

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Speaker 1: And of course One Gabriel's career has spanned more than

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Speaker 1: forty years, making him the best selling artist in Mexican history.

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Speaker 1: Get this, he wrote over eighteen hundred songs for himself

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Speaker 1: and he even wrote for other artists in a variety

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Speaker 3: I mean that many.

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Speaker 2: But you know what's so special he can actually write

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Speaker 1: A dance exactly. I feel like his music transcends language,

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Speaker 2: And speaking of iconic, let's not forget about how that

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Speaker 3: At Harry Styles was even born. The bright ruffles lent

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's well established that he is a music

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Speaker 1: about Wangabia's journey to start them.

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Speaker 2: From a tough childhood to singing venues all over Why.

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Speaker 1: Is to a stint in jail and a friendship that

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Speaker 2: Today we're taking a look at Juengavirie's humble begin and.

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Speaker 1: How his powerhouse vocals and romantic lyrics launched him into music.

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Speaker 3: Starting let's get into it and all of it's glittery glory.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Lilianavosquez.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an Icon.

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Speaker 1: A weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on

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Speaker 1: how today's most famous LATINV stars have shaped pop culture.

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Speaker 3: And given the world some extra tuble.

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Speaker 1: Sit back and get comfortable.

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Speaker 2: Because we are going in the only way we know how,

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Speaker 2: with whenas when, visas and a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of opinions as we relive their greatest achievements on

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Speaker 1: our journey to find out what makes them so iconic.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what is your first memory of Quankovidan.

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Speaker 1: It's watching him on TV. I don't remember what concert

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Speaker 3: On for me? Like Guanghi's was.

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Speaker 2: You know, my my parents actually were very Christian and

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Speaker 1: Alberto Aguilera Valladez, better known as one Gabriel, was born

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Speaker 1: on January seventh, nineteen fifty.

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Speaker 3: Wait wait wait wait wait, let me do my thing.

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Speaker 1: Okay okay, okay.

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Speaker 3: January seventh, nineteen fifteen.

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Speaker 2: So that means he's a Capricorn's son, a Leo Moon

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Speaker 3: Yep. The stars alliance make the perfect combo for someone.

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Speaker 1: Just like Wonky's as a fellow Ares, I fully agree

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Speaker 1: now as I was saying. Alberto Aguilera Vaalares was born

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Speaker 1: When Alberto was just a baby, tragedy struck his father. Gabriel,

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Speaker 2: Soon after Alberto's mom, Victoria, took all ten children with

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Speaker 1: Victoria worked long hours to provide for her family and

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Speaker 3: You know you want to be with your mother and

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Speaker 1: Victoria rarely visited Alberto growing up. He often ran away

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Speaker 3: He craved freedom, so he ran away for good.

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Speaker 1: After a year, Alberto returned to sue' what is to

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Speaker 1: He told the La Times. When I was fifteen, all

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Speaker 3: W Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So are we?

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Speaker 1: Alberto kept hustling and doing odd jobs across what is.

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Speaker 1: When he was sixteen, he often sang at el Noah Noah,

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Speaker 2: Oh my God, I'm remembering the guitar and the boot

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Speaker 1: No, Noah, no, noah, no, it's so gadgy, it is

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Speaker 1: Thank you, I love you. The year was nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: Is looking to have fun at the bars and nightclubs,

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Speaker 3: I know all about that, but listen.

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Speaker 2: Kuan Gabriete, like me, was underage, so a friend basically

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Speaker 1: He did so using his very first stage name, Adan Luna,

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Speaker 2: He traveled back and forth between Quadas and Mexico City

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Speaker 1: That did not stop Alberto aka Adan Luna aka one Geese.

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Speaker 1: Are you following? He's following. There's a lot of names here, okay.

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Speaker 2: Then one day in nineteen seventy, his life would take

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Speaker 3: Dude.

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Speaker 1: He was arrested and spent eighteen months in one of

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Speaker 2: He told Lahnada when I went to prison, I didn't

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Speaker 3: They accused me of robbery without evidence.

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Speaker 2: They asked me for money to let me out, and

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Speaker 1: And what's incredible about this is that all of that

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Speaker 3: You want to know what's so crazy? It's like it

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a beautiful performance. It really is like

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Speaker 1: Like come for me if you don't agree, But like

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Speaker 1: Join us next time for more of One Gabriel's continued

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