GREAT TRIBUTE A JUAN GABRIEL: Juan Gabriel , whose real name was Alberto Aguilera Valadez , was born on January 7 1950 in Parácuaro , a town in the state of Michoacan , but as a child his family moved to Juarez in Chihuahua , where he was placed in an orphanage because her mother I could not keep it . It was there where he learned music and years later he could turn around a difficult childhood to become an icon of Mexican music , composer of hundreds of songs over the past four decades have been performed by world-class artists . The Mexican singer died Sunday August 28 of a heart attack at age 66 at his home in Santa Monica , California. Artist fans have placed wreaths at the monumental building of the City of Mexico , where the farewell