Shortly after graduating from Oxnard High School, she cut her first record in Mexico and married Jose Alfredo. “My idea of stardom was maybe to someday sing in the Oxnard Theater.” That’s when someone told him about this good-looking girl who sings. One of his dancers had broken her foot and he needed to rustle up another act in a hurry. She was a 16-year-old beauty queen in Oxnard when Jose Alfredo passed through on his annual coastal tour. Then again, Juarez acknowledged she couldn’t have imagined her own success.
“I can’t even imagine something like that.” “They’re going through so much right now,” Juarez said. Five dollars from each $25 ticket will go to the Maganas. This year, the concert will be Sunday at Oxnard High School. Usually it’s in Miami, Chicago, Mexico City, places where tens of thousands of Latinos hold Jose Alfredo in the same awe that many Americans reserve for, say, Elvis Presley. On top of that, she had been married to Jose Alfredo Jimenez, a beloved, larger-than-life musician who was indisputably one of Mexico’s greatest mariachi singers and composers.Īlicia Juarez started out in Oxnard, and that’s where she has wound up.Įach year she gives a memorial concert in honor of Jose Alfredo, who died on Nov. from Mexico five years ago, knew her from her music-she had put out 21 albums-and her nine movies. Now I had never heard of Alicia Juarez, but that only reflects my ignorance of Mexican music. Nor did they know that she lived just down the road. Nobody realized that a renowned mariachi singer who had performed for Latin American presidents had read about Ulises and was touched by the fund-raising efforts for him. “They’re only taking now because they have to.”īut for all the good will at Saticoy, nobody at the school could have planned this weekend’s benefit concert. “They were always giving, always providing,” said Lanning-Espitia. Even after the benefit barbecue for her son, Susana insisted on staying behind to help clean up.
Ulises’ mom had never turned down a teacher’s request for help in the classroom.
Of course, they were doing only what the Maganas would have done.
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