'Your superpower is your culture': Arturo Chacón-Cruz says when he first came to the U.S. more than 20 years ago, he felt a need to hide who he was to be accepted into the opera world - until he learned to accept his uniqueness.
Arturo Chacón-Cruz can bring you to tears with his Italian arias. But Mexican American tenor started his musical journey by singing mariachi songs.But tenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz started his musical journey by singing popular Spanish mariachi songs."Pavarotti was singing La Boheme here and he also sang Il Trovatore, so big shoes to fill," Chacón-Cruz said while giving ABC7 a backstage tour of the famed War Memorial Opera House.
"Mariachi is almost like opera," Chacón-Cruz said. "I say almost because we tell stories in a very, very short period of time. We tell the whole story in one song and sometimes the songs will connect."He added," Mariachi has the life, has the joy, has incredible expression through the voice and the music behind you."
"Maester Placido Domingo gave me lessons and scholarship," Chacón-Cruz said. "I studied with the greatest of the greatest and I feel like I didn't deserve it at the time. I was so young. I hadn't done anything. So I feel like life has given me an opportunity to give back some of those blessings."
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