Ángela Aguilar and the day she dazzled with Canelo Álvarez before a fight

In addition to offering a great boxing show, in recent years Saúl Álvarez has been characterized by offering striking and very colorful tickets to the ring. Among artists such as J Balvin and even Maná, one of the most applauded in Mexico and the United States was the one offered by the Aguilar family with regional Mexican music.

In the middle of the 2021 Cinco de Mayo party in North America, Pepe, Leonardo and Ángela Aguilar performed before the more than 73,000 spectators present at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, where they gave Canelo a very Mexican welcome to the ring, where the British Billy Joe Saunders would be played .

In addition to the imposing voice of Pepe Aguilar, who stole the audience's eyes and ears was his youngest daughter Angela, who was 17 years old at the time and was in charge of singing the Mexican National Anthem with a very particular style.

The two presentations started the screams and euphoria of the attendees, who in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic broke the attendance record for any boxing match in the United States.

Ángela Aguilar did not hide her excitement about participating in this short and colorful presentation, because although in November 2019 she had already sung the anthem in another Canelo fight, on this occasion she received all the reflectors and cameras, since she got on a stage intended for artists as if it were a concert and not the inside the ring like last time.

In addition, this time the Mexican participated in a medley of songs made up of El Rey, Mexico Lindo y Querido, and Viva México, Viva América, melodies that made her a trending topic throughout the night, both by positive and negative comments.

One of the main criticisms that revolved around him was the style in which he sang the anthem, as several people considered that he sang it too slowly, to the extent that even his father had to come out but not to defend it, but to say the same thing:

“He sang it as if he had taken some pills of 'slow me down'. Okay? Why? That's another thing. He watered her. Period, it's over,” said the Mexican singer-songwriter; however, he ruled out that it would have been a song to “shoot her”.

Pepe Aguilar stated that “There was a mistake and of course he watered it”, because according to his perception, the error was that he was not going to the rhythm of what the lyrics represent.” The mistake is that he was singing like 30 beats per minute lower than normal. And then we Mexicans went to war very slowly.”

As if this were not enough, that eye-catching exhibition by the Aguilar family, the day on which Angela confirmed her stardom with the Mexican athlete of the moment, was conditioned by an error in the headphones of Pepe's youngest daughter.

“When Angela comes out, the headphones she was wearing didn't work. You couldn't hear each other. And Angela's mistake there, which would not have happened to me, is that she would have forgotten that, completely and totally, and not think that there were horns (...) In a stadium where there are 73,000 people, it is impossible for there to be horns. There's no way. Then the rebound is sometimes up to a second and a little bit. If you don't have the experience, you're going to sing that slowly, because you're going to try to compensate and try to get there,” the singer said according to Al Día Dallas.

That match ended with a categorical eight-round win by Canelo over Saunders, who broke his cheekbone badly and put him on the brink of retirement, not before snatching the World Boxing Organization (WBO) belt at 168 pounds.

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