Pepe Aguilar Honors Tradition at Jaripeo Hasta Los Huesos Chicago Show

Pepe Aguilar is all about tradition, Mexican pleasure and household, and that is accurately what will take centerstage at his Jaripeo Hasta Los Huesos Tour.

With back once more-to-once more performances by the Aguilar dynasty, such as Antonio Aguilar Jr. (Pepe’s brother), and Leonardo and Ángela Aguilar (Pepe’s kids), the present is an homage to the legendary Don Antonio Aguilar, who pioneered the jaripeo-form spectacle back in the ’60s alongside singer and actress Flor Silvestre, his spouse and mom to Pepe and Antonio Jr.

“Antonio was a visionary,” Pepe stated about his father on Friday, July 5, for the duration of a tour quit in Chicago’s Allstate Arena. “To present my spouse and children and society in this way is actually the ideal. I do not do these exhibits for the dollars. It is to honor my dad and mom and satisfaction for my tradition.”

Pepe and his son Leonardo even additional honored Don Antonio by singing “Bandido de Amores,” his collaboration with a further late legend, Joan Sebastian, initially recorded additional than 30 quite a few years ago. The new version, incorporated in Leonardo’s Soy Como Quiero Ser, a tribute album to Sebastian, most just lately hit No. 1 on Billboard‘s Regional Mexican Airplay chart (dated July 6).

Just ahead of singing it along with Leonardo, Pepe explained the backstory of how the initial collaboration arrived about. “My father and Joan did not get alongside,” he explained candidly. “But I created them get alongside one another for a music. I experienced to do it. I signify I truly admired Joan and, nicely, Antonio was my father. And now, 30 years afterwards, I history it with my son, and now it’s No. 1 many thanks to you all.”

Leonardo and Antonio Jr. every person executed a established of about 30 minutes suitable ahead of Ángela took the phase to a roaring group, driving a majestic white horse as she wore a wonderful, comprehensive black dress adorned with pink, orange and yellow flowers. She sang “Que Agonía” and the admirer-most loved “Dime Como Quieres,” her collaboration with a brief whilst ago-confirmed boyfriend Christian Nodal. “I pass up you, my enjoy,” she explained in the middle of the tune.

Inspired by Mexico’s Día de Muertos, the 3-hour present — with a 360-degree-style phase loaded with altars, catrinas that happen to lifetime and colourful Mexican artesanía — attributes all 4 artists singing when horseback utilizing (no quick feat) and charros who actually possibility their life utilizing bulls. At 1 spot, a single of the Mexican cowboys was kicked by the bull he rode for a levels of competitors and knowledgeable to be taken out on a stretcher. Pepe confident concertgoers he was “fine,” introducing, “Thank God nothing at all significant took place and we can go on with the present.”

Pepe was the incredibly final to pick out the phase and did it to a packed dwelling loaded with multi-generational individuals who applauded his commitment to place Mexican new music, tradition and tradition at the forefront of his demonstrates. His tiny kids, who had carried out him, watched their father from afar in admiration. “I promise to deliver you a diverse exhibit every single 12 months if you permit me,” Pepe declared.

Following an encore show in Chicago on Saturday (July 6), the Jaripeo Hasta Los Huesos Tour continues with two back-to-back once more stops in Los Angeles on July 13-14.