Sat Nov 21 2009
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Latin music world celebrated 100 million records sold, 1,500 songs written and 30 years of recording, all by one artist, Mexico's beloved Juan Gabriel.
The singer-songwriter known as the "divo of Juarez" was honored as the Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year with a gala featuring singers from across the Americas and Spain on Wednesday, a day before the Latin Grammys awards show in Las Vegas.
Juan Gabriel is like the Elton John of Mexico, but he records across Mexi-co's many gen-res, from ranchera and ballads to disco and dance music.
Born to poverty as the last of ten children and raised in an orphanage in the rough border city of Juarez, Gabriel's first hit was "No Tengo Dinero," or "I Have No Money," in 1971.
Enrique Iglesias, who hosted the event with Venezuelan Maite Delgado, said Gabriel has an "enormous heart," which he shares in his songs and in his many benefit concerts and his charity work, especially the children's home he founded in Juarez in 1987.
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