Ángela Aguilar isn’t just a rising star, she’s a new luminous light in a music constellation that’s burned brightly for nearly a century. When we spoke with the acclaimed 19 year-old vocalist, whose “Piensa En Mi” tour stops at 713 Music Hall Saturday night, our conversation ended in a familiar...
isn’t just a rising star, she’s a new luminous light in a music constellation that’s burned brightly for nearly a century. When we spoke with the acclaimed 19 year-old vocalist, whose “Piensa En Mi” tour stops at, our conversation ended in a familiar place – onstage, a place she’s felt at home since she was a toddler. Almost as soon as she could speak, she began performing shows with her father, the iconic Mexican singer Pepe Aguilar.
We asked Aguilar if her dad had a TikTok account. After all, he’s one of the genre’s most renowned artists. He too made his stage debut as a youth, alongside his own father. When he began his career in earnest in the 1980s, he became legendary, selling millions of albums worldwide, earning multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy wins, even having a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
“I think I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into because of my parents and my grandparents, but you know, being a woman in the industry, specifically in a predominantly male genre, which is mariachi and Mexican music, has been very hard to be honest, to be able to get the same opportunities,” she said. “I don’t think I was ever prepared for that, something that my grandma had to deal with, 50, 60 years ago is something now that I am dealing with.
Aguilar has been vocal about artists like her who came before her. She’s an Alicia Keys fan, loves Whitney Houston, and she did a stunning cover of Lady Gaga’s “Shallow” for the Grammys ReImagined series. Those influences seem a bit obvious. We noted that her dad is a self-professed fan of The Who and Pink Floyd and asked which acts we’d be surprised to know she follows. She said her father gave her an iPod when she was six, filled with tracks by diverse artists like Tupac and Javier Solis.
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