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Leonel Garcia and Reik performed a tribute to Juan Gabriel with a soulful rendition of “Hasta que te Conoci,” as a black-and-white image of a smiling Divo de Juarez appeared behind them.

People still bought CDs in supermarkets and Woolworths, and the majority of those CDs were dreary, middle-of-the-road efforts by acts like Katie Melua, Il Divo and Keane.

When he saw a class solely focused on “El Divo de Juárez,” whom his grandmother loved, he recognized the opportunity to learn the language from a master wordsmith.

The divo’s suits were mostly with shorts — sometimes silken, sometimes tweed with lurex threading, sometimes leather — with a loose jacket or perhaps an intarsia sweater.

The diva/divo is ’’Maicontentu,” Sardinian dialect for “Never happy,” which appears on garments.