Ángela Aguilar has set her sights on success! The Princess of Mexican music has just signed a worldwide deal with performance-rights organization SESAC Latina, as it was announced by Variety.Always taking into consideration her parents advice, Angela has shared her thoughts on her decision to sign the deal, and how her family has influenced her to make the right choices in her professional career and personal life.“The people that I surround myself with are completely talented in what they do and they’re ambitious and creative,” she revealed, “They have so much experience that I lack of because I’m 18. Yes, I’ve been doing this since I was three years old but I’m still young and having mentors, like my parents and being under their record company [Machin Records] is an experience I’m grateful for.”The Mexican singer has achieved unimaginable things for her age, taking the Mariachi genre to the top of the Billboard regional Mexican airplay chart, with her single ‘Ahí Donde Me Ven’ from her album, ‘Mexicana Enamorada.’ The famous family are currently on tour promoting the album, joining her father Pepe Aguilar, her uncle Antonio Aguilar and her brother Leonardo Aguilar.“The experience that I have is just the four or five years of consciousness that I’ve been in this industry,” she said about her success in the music industry, “My family, of course, have told me about this struggle.
Del Entertainment CEO Angel Del Villar, CFO Luca Scalisi Arrested By FBI For Allegedly Conspiring To Violate Narcotics Kingpin Act
15.06.2022 - 04:33 / deadline.com
Two top executives at an L.A.-based Latin music conglomerate were arrested by FBI agents today on charges that they conspired to violate the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act by conducting business with a concert promoter with ties to Mexican drug cartels.
Angel del Villar, CEO of Del Records and its subsidiary talent agency Del Entertainment, and Del Entertainment CFO Luca Scalisi, are named in a criminal complaint that accuses them of “conspiracy to transact in property of specially designated narcotics traffickers in violation of the Kingpin Act.”
Both men made their initial appearances this afternoon in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. Del Villar was ordered released on $100,000 bond and Scalisi was ordered released on $35,000 bond. Their arraignments have been scheduled for July 20.
Founded in 2009, locally-based Del Records bills itself as “the most successful Latin independent entertainment label in Regional Mexican music today.”
A third defendant – Jesus Perez Alvear of Cuernavaca, Mexico, was also named in the complaint, although his whereabouts are unknown. Perez is a music promoter who controls Gallistica Diamante, a.k.a. Ticket Premier, a music promotion business in Mexico. In 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated him and his company as “specially designated narcotics traffickers,” alleging that he and Gallistica Diamante acted “on behalf of Mexican drug cartels” by “facilitating money laundering and an international prostitution ring.”
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles, Perez promoted concerts in Mexico for Del Entertainment until March 2019, even though his designation as a “specially designated narcotics
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