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Speaker 2: Elana Barrak messes your right.

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Speaker 1: You and me both, baby, I mean you and me both.

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Speaker 3: We've seen one Gabriel through his highs and lows. Out

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Speaker 3: of a childhood filled with abandonment and loss, Wanga emerged

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Speaker 4: And our boy touched the hearts of everyone around him

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Speaker 3: Prison cellth Wanga was in the wrong place at the

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Speaker 2: Hiki, that's the dream right, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: One.

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Speaker 3: Gabriel is the picture of rads to riches, perseverance. Anyone

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Speaker 2: The most fabulous rising from the Ashley and.

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Speaker 3: Rise he did decade after decade, selling millions of records

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Speaker 4: And at the height of Kwangat's fame, he let the

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Speaker 4: and the fans stood by their man.

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Speaker 3: In two thousand, Wanga set an attendance record with a

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Speaker 2: And finally, in two thousand and six, he received the

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Speaker 2: commemorating his thirty five year career.

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Speaker 3: But the most fitting tribute to Wanga might have come

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Speaker 1: That's when local Wattis.

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Speaker 3: Artist Arturo Damasco painted a mural featuring a a young

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Speaker 4: Okay otravez Maas says your way, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 4: but you know what, You're not alone.

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Speaker 3: It was just a year later that the world would

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Speaker 3: Kirk Semple and Elizabeth malkoln would write, it is difficult

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Speaker 3: to overstate the popularity in Mexico of One Gabriel, whose

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Speaker 3: music tapped a deeply sentimental lane in Mexican culture. His

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Speaker 4: His music was played at children's birthday parties and the

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Speaker 3: Today we're taking a closer look at the legac see

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Speaker 3: of one Gavin.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Liliana Oscuez.

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

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Speaker 3: A weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on

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Speaker 3: how today's most famous latinv stars have shaped pop culture

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Speaker 3: and given the world some extra level.

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Speaker 1: Sit back and get comfortable.

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Speaker 4: Because we are going in the only way we know how,

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Speaker 3: And a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest

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Speaker 3: achievements on our journey to find out what makes them

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Speaker 2: Okay, but say it again, but it's time. Like Vin Diesel, family. Wait,

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Speaker 2: I thought it.

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Speaker 3: Familia anyway, moving right along, family loomed large for one

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Speaker 2: Which makes sense, right.

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Speaker 4: He never knew his biological father and things were always

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Speaker 4: Am damn, that's all I'm gonna sing, look at you?

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Speaker 3: And when he actually performs that song for his album

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Speaker 3: he actually dedicates the song to all the mothers in

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Speaker 3: Like as a mom, I was like, will Santi love.

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Speaker 1: Me this much?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god?

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Speaker 3: All right, So we know that Guanga was never ashamed

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Speaker 3: of his humble beginnings. Around the same time that his

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Speaker 2: In seventies money honey, that is a lot of Netflix subscriptions.

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Speaker 3: He also adopted a twelve year old boy from the

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Speaker 2: What bury the lead much? Oh?

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Speaker 1: That is just the beginning.

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Speaker 3: Did you know that Juan Gabriel was an early pioneer

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Speaker 3: in vitro fertilization or IVF something I know way too

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Speaker 4: We shut your butt, Okay, explain all right, Okay, So here's.

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Speaker 2: How it goes.

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Speaker 3: Sojan Gabriel didn't want to go on without ever knowing

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Speaker 3: Ivan Gabriel was born.

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Speaker 1: Huh, I know, I know, I know.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, guys, we need to give Joseph a small

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Speaker 1: We will hold for you.

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Speaker 4: Like somebody gave me some juice or something. Okay, wow, okay,

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Speaker 4: So before Ricky Martin, before Sir Elton John, before Phoebe

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Speaker 2: Before Beyonce.

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Speaker 4: Okay, just kidding, Juan Gabriel had a baby with a Syracuse.

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Speaker 3: You're such a shady fucker, And the answer is yes.

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Speaker 3: Our man was a pioneer in many ways, and once

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the sad part. Tragedy touched his family in

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Speaker 1: He gave him his own name after all, and listen,

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Speaker 3: You can fly, no one leaves all of that behind

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Speaker 4: All one man in fabulous blue mariachi attire, sitting on

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Speaker 3: This is the third stop on Juandabrie's Mexico Estol Gool Tour,

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Speaker 3: For Billboard, grise Leflores wrote he didn't waste any minute

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Speaker 2: Wow, our boy is just always full of surprises.

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Speaker 3: Well, when you're touring the US, you got to throw

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Speaker 3: After an incredible setlist touring through past and present, Wangat

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Speaker 1: No no no so cud.

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Speaker 2: I was going to do that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can't not sing it, and as the

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Speaker 4: Okay, seriously, how many times are you going to make

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Speaker 1: We're almost done, I promise.

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Speaker 3: After his incredible show at the Forum One, Gabriel returned

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Speaker 3: make it to that show On Sunday, August twenty eighth,

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Speaker 1: He was only sixty six years old. My godh too young,

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Speaker 3: I don't remember exactly where I was, But what really

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Speaker 1: Social But what was crazy is all of.

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Speaker 3: My feed was Wan Gabriel, And I was like, wait

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Speaker 1: Like all of these people who I never.

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Speaker 1: And I thought that just goes to show you the

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Speaker 3: His impact and how wide his legacy reached to this day.

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Speaker 2: You know? What I don't.

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Speaker 3: I think for me, it was seeing so many social

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Speaker 3: One hundred and thirty thousand what Insists gathered around his

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Speaker 3: Five years after One Gabriel's death, Roberto Jose Andrade Franco

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Speaker 1: Even if this is a different what is than the

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Speaker 3: The one whose songs on days like these mournful anniversaries

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Speaker 3: It would be a massive understatement to call One Gabriel

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Speaker 2: He's once in a generation icon.

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Speaker 3: An icon like Wanga lives on in his music just

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Speaker 4: As long as someone keeps singing my songs, Juan Gabriel

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Speaker 3: Join us right here next week as we dive into

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Speaker 3: the story of another icon.

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Speaker 2: The Queen of Salsa curself seen Groups.

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