Get the latest gossip

Ángela Aguilar Shares How Her Grandpa Antonio Aguilar ‘Was Deported 4 or 5 Times’ | Billboard News


Angela Aguilar tells Billboard in a video interview that her grandpa "was deported four or five times"

Ángela Aguilar takes a walk through Placita Olvera to visit her grandfather Antonio Aguilar’s statue and shares how he was able to achieve his American dream. They told me that what my grandpa would do was talk to them through the radio like the whole world saying, “We need four men who know how to do this.” And with that, they would go. My grandpa would go to the restaurant and he told him, “I’ll be your waiter, I won’t charge you anything, but give me singing classes.” That’s why he slept here, he went over there, the owner would give him classes and he would come back.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Billboard