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WorldMags.net Backstage Pass / Pepe Aguilar, MTV Unplugged KEEPING A FAMILY TRADITION -----Aguilar welcomes his children to the spotlight, as his parents did for him re\ When Pepe Aguilar was 5 years old, he’d go cheerleader in the last eight, nine years of his life, to the recording studio with his mom, singer- when I already had like 15 albums under actress Flor Silvestre, or play in the film editing my belt. There was an understanding and a room with his dad, actor-producer and ranchera learning process and a mutual respect we had icon Antonio Aguilar. for each other as colleagues that I greatly miss.” “They were famous and they were singers,” His 84-year-old mother, who lives in says Aguilar. “It was normal [for me].” Zacatecas, gives stern feedback. “She’ll scold 1 Today, Aguilar continues the tradition with the me, as if I were a little kid, because she can’t k youngest of his four children, Leonardo, 15, and understand my diction,” says Aguilar with i Angela, 10. He often shares the stage with them, a laugh. “Or she’ll cry because she gets so . including on MTV Unplugged. emotional when she sees me singing.” It’s the newest chapter in “the Aguilar dynasty,” Conscious of high expectations, Aguilar says and it has stirred up memories for the reigning he has never forced his kids into showbiz. But Aguilar was joined patriarch, who got both unwavering support and Leonardo, he reports, “is devoted to 4441 onstage recently by daughter pragmatic reviews from his parents.“I’m sure banda music. And my daughter, she’ll listen to Angela (left) and my own father was always very proud, even if he Katy Perry and Rocio Durcal. And she’ll listen to son Leonardo. didn’t always say so,” says Aguilar. “He became a her grandmother.” —L.C. i kJ. CHILDREN: JESUS AGUILAR EQUINOCCIO RECORDS PEPE AGUILAR FELICIDADES POR UN AP -10 MAS DE EXITO Y RECONOCIMIENTOS /7 EN TU CARRERA. .- Nowp tek74 : 4 g: r..).! --a cc ort Eczymoccio WorldMags.net.