It didn’t matter that she was going through chemotherapy: Mami loved to hear Pepe’s music and wasn’t going to let fourth-stage cancer get in the way of a good time.Īs we enjoyed Pepe and his clan this year, we remembered the time I called in some favors so that Mami could meet him backstage after a 2016 show at the tony Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa. The “ Jaripeo sin Fronteras” performance at the Honda Center in 2018 was the last concert she attended, and one of her final public outings. It was our first family night on the town since Mami passed away in April.
EL HIJO DE PEPE AGUILAR UPDATE
8, when “ Jaripeo Sin Fronteras” - “Rodeo Without Borders,” Pepe’s update of his family’s revue - came to the Honda Center, my sister, brother, brother-in-law and father all attended. But it also became poignant because of my late mom.
EL HIJO DE PEPE AGUILAR PROFESSIONAL
Writing my feature on Pepe y su familia was a personal and professional joy. My first girlfriend constantly played Pepe’s 1992 hit “Recuérdame Bonito” (“Remember Me Fondly”) on her Walkman while we took the bus back home from Sycamore Junior High in Anaheim three years later, Antonio’s album “ 15 Exitos Con Tambora” (15 Chart-Toppers with Bass Drum”) was the first-ever CD my father bought.Ĭalifornia Pepe Aguilar’s ‘Rodeo Without Borders’ evokes old Mexico, with touches of L.A.Īguilar and his family are Mexican American entertainment royalty - and a metaphor for modern-day Los Angeles, mixing English and Spanish, mariachi and Guns N’ Roses. The Aguilar canciones were the soundtrack for family get-togethers, and blared on car trips from Anaheim to Montebello, where most of my dad’s side of the family lives. All I can recall now is horses and dirt and a good time my dad remembers Antonio telling a preteen Pepe - then going by Pepito - “Saluda, mijo” (“Greet everyone, son”) to the laughs and kind applause of the audience.
They were young parents who wanted to teach their children about their heritage in a three-hour show that combined rodeo and music. One of my earliest memories is Mami and Papi taking my baby sister and me to an Aguilar show in the early 1980s at the Anaheim Convention Center.
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