La Jolla Music Society
Aida Cuevas Canta a Juan Gabriel
Aída Cuevas, known as “The Queen of Mariachi Music”, celebrates 47 years singing traditional Mexican and Latin American music. Cuevas is the first and only female singer in the traditional mariachi genre to ever win a GRAMMY® and a Latin GRAMMY Award® and now celebrates a long-lasting career which includes eleven GRAMMY® nominations in the “Best Mariachi/Ranchero Album” category.
Much like Ella Fitzgerald’s classic releases for Verve, her “songbook” albums have played a central role in defining Mexican popular music. Over her career, she’s recorded an impressive 41 full-length albums that have sold internationally in excess of 11 million copies.
Now, the “Queen of Ranchera Music” Aida Cuevas presents a mariachi spectacle celebrating Mexico’s bestselling artist, Juan Gabriel, with a new album, Aida Cuevas Canta a Juan Gabriel 40 años después. Performing her legendary friend’s biggest hits, Cuevas exhibits her stunning vocals on “Te Lo Pido Por Favor,” “Te Sigo Amando,” and “La Diferencia,” among others.
Juan Gabriel passed away in August 2016 as Mexico’s bestselling artist of all time with over 100 million albums worldwide. Gabriel, a six-time GRAMMY® nominee, was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2009.
Aida Cuevas is the only artist given permission by the Juan Gabriel estate to perform a tribute to this Latin American icon.
