¡Arriba Chalino Sánchez!

“It’s cool to be recognized. Gracias a diós que sí [Thank God], it’s part of the job. I learned that from my father, the way of being with people. They don’t want to see stuck-up artists. People don’t want to see somebody that doesn’t want to take a picture with them, that doesn’t want to give an autograph. You have to be sincere to your public.” Adán dedicated Un Soñadorto, who else, “the people.”

That humility is firmly rooted in his origins. “I’m the type of person who likes to dream a lot. A few years ago, I dreamt about having my own car, now I have three. A few years ago I dreamt about buying another house for my mom, now I can do it,” he says. But Adán, his mother and his 15-year-old sister aren’t going anywhere; they still live in the same house their father bought in the southeast Los Angeles community of Paramount. “We’re attached to it. Sort of the thing you don’t want to get rid of. He worked so hard for it. Plus I don’t want to leave friends behind. Paramount is home.”

In the small rancho of Los Basitos Sinaloa, meanwhile, fans clean the gravesite, leave flowers and play banda music for hours in homage; Chalino Sánchez rests in peace here. But his legacy lives on in Los Angeles with Adán. “A lot of people, young and old, come up to me and tell me, ‘I liked your dad and I like you now,’” he says. “I’m just doing my own thing, trying to follow him by doing my own thing. Making sure he’d be proud of me.”

Adán Sánchez will perform at the Kodak Theater, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., on Saturday, March 20, at 8 p.m.; call (323) 308-6363.