Johnny Canales died at 77 years of age. (Photograph: X)
It was at the start of the 12 months when the charismatic Johnny Canales knowledgeable the whole world about his well being problems. Now. This Thursday morning, June 13, it’s confirmed that the beloved driver has simply died on the age of 77.
This occasion deeply marks the world of leisure. Primarily amongst Mexican audiences residing in the US who had been in love together with his well-known program The Johnny Canales Present.
The Latin group within the neighboring nation had an essential closeness with the tv presenter and entertainer. And though he lived and labored in the US, Canales is undoubtedly initially from Mexico.
(Fb: The Johnny and Nora Canales Present)
Born in Common Treviño, Nuevo León, Mexico, Johnny Canales emigrated together with his household to the US in his youth. Within the 70s, he started his musical profession and that was when he started to construct his identify within the leisure business.
Nonetheless, it was together with his tv program The Johnny Canales Present that he achieved his biggest recognition. This present, broadcast in each the US and Mexico, grew to become an important platform for quite a few rising artists. Canales interviewed and introduced performances by musicians of assorted genres, focusing primarily on Tejano and regional Mexican music.
Among the many artists who handed by means of its stage, Selena Quintanilla stood out, whom Johnny Canales helped promote by introducing her repeatedly. Her signature phrase “You’re in management!” Not solely did it develop into an icon of her present, however it additionally symbolized her distinctive model of presenting and connecting with audiences.
Johnny Canales was a Mexican-American host, whose tv present boosted the careers of artists like Selena. (Photograph: YouTube).
Canales was not solely a presenter, but in addition a tireless advocate for Latin music. His program, which aired for greater than twenty years, contributed considerably to the promotion and popularization of many artists who’re in the present day references within the music business. All through his profession, Johnny Canales obtained quite a few awards for his work in leisure and his cultural impression.
Together with his loss of life, the world of Latin American leisure undoubtedly suffers the lack of an emblematic determine who marked a earlier than and after within the dissemination of regional Mexican music. There could be no international Featherweight, with out Johnny Canales.
